Patrick Plante

Partner

Location
Montréal
Phone

Presentations & Publications

Beyond Our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member of the Comité consultatif pour le Québec, The Advocates’ Society

Community Involvement

  • Member of the Board of Directors, Théâtre de Quat’Sous

Awards & Recognition

  • Recognized by Thomson Reuters (2025) as one of “Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers.”
  • Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2019) of Best Lawyers in Canada ® (Corporate and Commercial Litigation) and since 2021 (Class Actions Litigation).
  • Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2024) of Benchmark Litigation's - The Definitive Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys as a Litigation Starin the 2018-2021 editions as a "40 and Under Hotlist", in the 2018-2021 as a Future Star.
  • Finalist for an Excellence Award at the Canadian Law Awards 2024.
  • Recognized in the 2021 edition of Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation
  • Recognized in the 2025 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Class Actions) and in the 2021 and 2024 editions (Litigation - Corporate Commercial).
  • Finalist at the Young Bar Association of Montréal (YBAM) Lawyers of the Year Award (2015): civil and commercial litigation.
  • Recipient of the Lexpert® Zenith Award (2011), awarded to the pro bono team of the year, for having represented Mr. Réjean Hinse.
  • Selected as "Star Graduate" at the University of Ottawa at the conferral of degrees in 2008, recognizing his exceptional achievements during his university years.
  • Recipient of some 20 awards of excellence, including the Gold Medal and Plaque of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa for achieving the highest average in the civil law program.
  • Recipient of the Barreau du Québec Award in 2008 for having maintained the highest average among all law students who completed their bachelor's degrees at the University of Ottawa.
  • Recipient in 2007 of the Ronald St. John MacDonald Award that is granted to the team with the highest score for the factum it presented in the Canadian qualifications for the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Competition. The following year, Patrick acted as pleading consultant for the University of Ottawa team, in the same competition.
  • Recipient in 2006 of a BLG Research fellowship that enabled him to collaborate in the writing of a research document (monograph) on contract law in Québec, which will be published in the International Encyclopaedia of Law.

Bar Admission & Education

  • Québec, 2009
  • LLB, University of Ottawa, 2008
  • MA in Industrial Relations, Université Laval, 2005
  • BA in Labour Science & Political Science, York University, 2003