LONG CV

DOMINIQUE F. BOURCHEIX Ad.E.

Lawyer, Mediator, Arbitrator and Instructor

6, Desaulniers Blvd., suite 315, Saint-Lambert, Quebec  J4P 1L3

Telephone: (450) 923-3550, ext. 27 – Fax : (450) 923-8118

E-mail: dbourcheix@mediationsophilex.ca
www.mediationsophilex.ca

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

An attorney for 37 years, Dominique F. Bourcheix has made mediation, training in mediation/conciliation, and arbitration her exclusive field of practice since 1999 when she shifted her focus away from the civil and commercial litigation. Today, she exercises her specialty primarily in the Greater Montreal area as well as throughout Quebec and, occasionally, in Ontario.

 

Mediation and dispute resolution

C.MED Mediator with the ADR Institute of Canada. Accredited civil and commercial mediation since 1995 with the QUebec Bar, the Quebec Superior Court and several other professional organistions. Accredited mediator since 1997 with the Quebec Government's conciliation program in family matters.

Conciliator of the Régie de l'Énergie since 2005.

Since 2009, has been Senior Mediation Adjudicator for the Life and Health Insurance Ombuds Office of Canada

Since 2008, has been Mediator for the Sport Dispute Resolution Center of Canada

Since 1995, she has conducted more than 2000 mediations in English, in French or both in the following fields: 

- Construction

- Professional liability

- Insurance

- Disability insurance

- Contracts

- Disputes between shareholders and/or partners

- Engineering and product liability

- Neighbourhood

- Banking and insolvency

- Successions

- Power distribution

- Harassment matters

- First Nations

- Food industry

These files are usually highly legalized, involve several parties and substantial monetary stakes, and are scheduled for trial from several days to months.

When certain mediations require it, because of the complexity of the issues and the number of parties, she has also developed a successful method of co-mediation and has conducted several with either a lawyer or engineer.

She has acted as facilitator of major negotiating tables in the food industry since 2012.

 

Teaching and coaching

Since 2006, she regularly gave several advanced seminars to mediators of the Centre de médiation et d'arbitrage de Paris, Aix-Mediation (France), the Commission des relations du travail du Québec and the Commission des Lésions Professionnelles  du Québec, Commission de l'accès à l'information du Québec, the Life and Health Insurance Ombuds Office of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as well as many private organizations..

From 2005 to 2010, she has been responsible for the course on Civil, Commercial and Labor Mediation (which accredits mediators with the Bar and other organisms) as well as the Interest-Based Negotiation course offered as part of the Quebec Bar's continuing education program. She delivers these courses several times per year as an indenpendent dispenser since 2009.

In 2004, she lectured on Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in Engineering Administration within the framework of Sherbrooke University's Master's of Engineering Administration.

Since 1995, she has regularly taught, in French and in English, Interest Based Negotiation and Mediation on behalf of the federal Department of Justice, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Council, the Canadian Transport Agency, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the Indemnity Fund of the Chambre des notaires du Québec and the Régie des Alcools, des Courses et des Jeux du Québec and many other organisations and many private organisations.

In 2002 and 2005, she held an advanced arbitration seminar for the Chambre des notaires du Québec and in 2000 and 2002, taught arbitration courses for CAMVAP (see below).

Arbitration

From 2000 to 2010, she acted as an Arbitration Specialist for Quebec with the Canadian Motor Vehicle Arbitration Plan (CAMVAP), a program established throughout Canada since 1994. Her role is to select, train and supervise the arbitrators on the roster, to process and analyze complaints relative to an arbitrator and to act as consultant on the program. She has conducted several arbitrations in Ontario within the program.

She regularly acts as sole arbitrator, as president or as member of arbitration tribunals in civil and commercial matters.

 

Litigation

1982-1999

She has practiced litigation and pleaded many cases before Quebec's Superior Court and the Court of Appeal in the fields of: - Civil law - Professional liability - Construction - Insurance - Banking and insolvency

Law firms

Since 1991	Lawyer in private practice
1984-1991	Lawyer with the firm of Clark Woods and partners
1982-1984	Lawyer with the firm of  Pouliot Mercure

Other

1979-1980	Political attaché in the Cabinet of Claude Ryan, Leader of the Opposition at the Quebec National Assembly.
Winter 1979 Summer 1978	Research assistant to Victor Nabhan, on copyright and intellectual property, Laval University.
Summer 1976	Apprentice mechanic.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

1980-1981	Quebec Bar
1976-1979	Université Laval Bachelor in Civil Law (LL.L.)
1973-1976	Concordia University Bachelor of Arts, Political Science Major (B.A.)
1972-1973	Loyola College Degree of Collegial Studies (D.E.C.)
1966-1972	Villa Sainte-Marcelline High school

CONTINUING EDUCATION (DISPUTE RESOLUTION FORMAL PROGRAMS)

In 2000, she started regularly following continuing education seminars.
2000	Advanced course in family mediation, Quebec Bar.
2000 et 2003	Family mediation seminars Journées d'études Europe Amérique.
1997	Course in family mediation, Iris Quebec Inc.
1995	Course in civil and commercial mediation, Quebec Bar.
1994	Course in civil and commercial mediation, Centre d'arbitrage commercial national et international du Québec.
1993	Course in civil and commercial mediation, Chambre des notaires du Québec.

CONFERENCES GIVEN

She is regularly invited to give conferences on mediation at the request of various organisms.
2018	La délicate question de la place du droit en médiation, Table Ronde de la Justice participative à venir en octobre prochain.
2018	La Médiation classique et la négociation intégrative, des outils modernes et efficaces, Fonds d’Assurance des Avocats et des Notaires (atelier 3h).
2018	La médiation et son application en pédiatrie sociale, Fondation du Dr Julien, (atelier 3h).
2018	La médiation pour les membres décideurs de la CNESST, (atelier 3h).
2017	La médiation et démonstration d’une médiation, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal, (atelier 3h).
2017	La médiation et démonstration d’une médiation, Faculté de droit, Université Mc Gill, (atelier 3h).
2017	The caracteristics of good telephone mediations, Congrès du Sports Dispute Resolution Center of Canada.
2016	La médiation et démonstration d’une médiation, Faculté de droit UQAM, (atelier 3h).
2016	La Médiation, un outil moderne et efficace, Association du Barreau Canadien.
2016	La médiation en assurance invalidité, colloque de l’Institut Canadien.
2015	Comment utiliser la médiation pour les cas de médecins pertubateurs, Association Canadienne de Protection Médicale.
2014	La médiation, un outil moderne et efficace, Association du Jeune Barreau du Québec.
2011	Présentation du mémoire du Comité de justice participative du Barreau Pour une Loi sur la présentation d’excuses, Congrès du Barreau.
2011	La Négociaiton Raisonnée, Régie des marchés agricoles, Union des producteurs agricoles et Conseil de la transformation alimentaire et des produits de consommation du Québec (atelier 3h).
2011	La Médiation et démonstration de médiation, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal (atelier 3h).
2010	- Quantum et responsabilité : les méthodes alternatives de résolution des conflits, est-ce du pareil au même? Colloque de l’Institut Canadien. - La Conciliation, Colloque sur la conciliation, Régie des marchés agricoles, Union des producteurs agricoles et Conseil de la transformation alimentaire et des produites de consommation du Québec. - La Justice Participative, un créneau d’avenir pour les jeunes avocats, Association du Jeune Barreau du Québec (atelier 3h).
2005-2007	Mandated by the Quebec Bar to deliver conferences on mediation to the province's various Chambers of Commerce.
2003	Mediation, as part of a seminar given to a delegation of Serbian high magistrates organized by the International Association of Jurists. Mediation in disability insurance for the Canadian Institute.
2002	Demonstration of a mediation in construction law at a symposium of  Justice Canada litigation lawyers.
2001	The Mediator's Role, Evolution and Trends at the Quebec Bar's Récents développements en médiation symposium. Mediation in disability insurance at the Canadian Institute.
2000	Demonstration of a mediation in construction law at the Congrès des avocats de province. Demonstration of a family mediation for the Longueuil Bar.
1999	Demonstration of a mediation in Design Built Construction at two Infonex conferences on design built construction. Demonstration of a mediation of a commercial leasing conflict at the Symposium on Solutions for the Future of the Young Chamber of Commerce of the South Shore of Montreal.
1997	Demonstration of certain aspects of mediation in harassment matters at the National Symposium on Conflict Resolution and Harassment in the Work Place, held by Justice Canada. Facilitator and guest speaker at the National Symposium on Dispute Resolution of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Pentington, B.C.
1995	Demonstration of a mediation in computer matters at the Chamber of Commerce of the South Shore of Montreal.
1994	Demonstration of a mediation in construction law at the symposium on Soft Justice and Construction of the Association of Architects in Private Practice of Quebec. Demonstration of a mediation in a leasing conflict at the Chamber of Commerce of the South Shore of Montreal.
1993-1994	Speaker on the new Quebec Civil Code for: - The Association of Architects in Private Practice. - ISRM, International Specialized Risk Management. - The Chamber of Commerce of the South Shore. - The Association of Anjou Industrials. - The Regional Centres of the Royal Bank of Canada.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

2019	Recipient of the Lawyer Emeritus distinction from the Barreau du Québec
2017	Merit of the Longueuil Bar for her contribution to the development of mediation in Québec since 25 years.
2013-2016	Member of the round table for Participatory Justice Committee of the Montreal Bar.
2005-2008	Member of the Participatory Justice Committee of the Quebec Bar.
2004	Recipient of the Volunteer Emeritus award, Fondation de l'Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne.
1999-2003	Member of the mediation committee of the Longueuil Bar.
1998-2003	Member of the mediation committee of the Canadian Bar, Quebec Section.
1995-1996	Member of the environment committee of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce.
1994-1995	Member of the recruiting committee of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce.
1983-1994	Member of the Board of Directors of  the École Supérieure de la Danse du Québec.
1991-1992	Member of the executive committee of the École Supérieure de la Danse du Québec.
1989-1993	Founder and member of the executive committee of the Villa Sainte-Marcelline Alumni.
1981-1985	Member of the Board of Directors of the Liberal Party Association, N.D.G.
1978-1979	Co-president of the Laval University legal aid office. Producer and anchor of a weekly legal information radio show,  CKRL-MF, Québec.
1977-1979	Author of judicial articles in the Laval University Journal Le fil des événements, Québec.
1974-1975	Vice-president of the Loyola Cegep Political Science Association.

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