Duhaime Law
Lloyd Duhaime
Barrister & Solicitor
Tel: (250) 920-4001
Email: lloyd@duhaimelaw.com
Professional Activities
Lloyd is a barrister and solicitor. He has over 20 years experience as a lawyer working in private practice and for the federal government. He has represented clients in a variety of complex matters. His preferred areas of practice are civil litigation, wills and estates and family law.
Lloyd has appeared at every level of court in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada. While at law school, Lloyd won the gold medal in the Quebec Moot Court competition. He holds the record as the only lawyer to ever appear before the Supreme Court of Canada on the day after he was called to the bar.
Lloyd is the wills, estates and probate legal expert on the TV show “The Will: Outrageous Final Wishes” scheduled for broadcast in 2011 in the United States on the Discovery Channel and in Canada on Mystery TV Canada (see Firm News).
Lloyd has held several high-ranking federal government positions including:
- Senior Constituency Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada.
- Legislative Assistant to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
- Legislative Assistant to the Minister of National Defence.
- General Counsel and Director of Policy at Standards Council of Canada.
- Legal and Policy Advisor to the Minister of Industry Canada.
Lloyd is the creator, author and owner of Duhaime’s Law Dictionary, the world’s most popular private Internet legal dictionary. Duhaime’s Law Dictionary is recommended and linked by hundreds of government agencies, courts, law firms and law schools worldwide and is increasingly cited in decisions in Canada and the United States such as R. v. Thompson, 2010 ONSC 4691 and Keating v. Nova Scotia (Attorney General) (2001) 42 Admin. L.R. (3d) 66. The federal Department of Justice lists Duhaime’s Legal Dictionary at the top of its list of online legal reference material. Publications around the world routinely cite legal terms from Duhaime’s Legal Dictionary, including more recently Business Week and Forbes. Lloyd also created and owns the legal website Duhaime.org.
Lloyd frequently speaks at legal conferences in Canada and in Europe.
Representative Work
- Acted as senior advisor to The Prime Minister of Canada and assumed the responsibilities of the Member of Parliament constituency office.
- Acted as political liaison for the Minister of National Defence and the Department of National Defence, briefing the Minister of Defence on issues of national and international importance and NATO defence initiatives during times of global conflict.
- Acted as senior negotiator for the federal government in connection with several complex, multi-party international agreements with foreign governments.
- Negotiated, organized and coordinated the passage through legislative committee and the House of Commons of several pieces of federal legislation.
- Chief negotiator for the Standards Council of Canada in connection with the negotiation with the European Union of a conformity assessment mutual recognition agreement.
Industry Experience
Aboriginal, automotive, banking, computer, environmental, financial services, gambling, government, Internet business, professional law corporations, real estate, social media, university.
Recognition
• Canadian Lawyer of the Week, Lawyer’s Weekly, November 20, 2009.
Memberships
• Canadian Bar Association
• Association des Juristes D’expression Française
Bar Admissions
- British Columbia
- Alberta (formerly)
- Québec (formerly)
Education
• Université de Montréal (LL.B.)