Like bespoke tailoring, Laberge Resolution offers conflict resolution services tailored to your specific needs.
Laberge Resolution offers a number of bespoke alternative dispute resolution services, including:
Like bespoke tailoring, Laberge Resolution offers conflict resolution services tailored to your specific needs.
Faced with complex litigation with multiple parties? We can help. Having difficulty with an unrepresented party or counsel? We're here for you. Is this your first mediation or are you a seasoned professional? We will be with you every step of the way. As standard, we offer pre-mediation and pre-arbitration consultations, individually or with counsel, to address many of these issues and to ensure the conflict resolution process and services are tailored to your unique circumstances. No matter the complexity of the matter or the level of sophistication of the parties: we can and will adjust the process to maximize the chances of achieving a resolution.
Need to hold a mediation after work hours? Not a problem. Need arbitration hearing dates over a weekend: consider it done. Need us to secure a neutral facility to accommodate specific needs of parties or deliver our services remotely over your preferred digital platform: we’ll take care of that.
Depending on the circumstances and the parties' needs and wishes, we can combine multiple services (eg. mediation followed by arbitration, commonly referred to as “med-arb”). Whatever the conflict – we can assist you in finding the right approach to achieve a resolution.
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A fair process fosters a fair resolution. This is our guiding principle. This is why our bespoke approach is key to our success. We believe that one must initially make time in the conflict resolution process to truly understand the parties and their needs. Only then are we able to appropriately adjust our services in a principled manner and deliver on a bespoke experience. Our mission to ensure a fair process is your competitive advantage!
In accordance with our principled and integrity-driven approach, we are fully independent from any legal services provider or law firms. We intentionally elected to offer our bespoke conflict resolution services free of any worry of running into conflict of interest, real or perceived biases, or quid pro quos. Alternative dispute resolution is what we do. Period.
Clear communication is a cornerstone of any resolution process. The founder and principal of Laberge Resolution is Jean-François Laberge, a fluently bilingual legal professional who will assist you in French, English, or both! No interpreters required.
Mr. Jean-François Laberge is a principled and integrity-driven legal professional who has achieved numerous ‘firsts’ across a well-rounded, multi-disciplinary career. In addition to being a fully bilingual mediator (Q. Med.) and arbitrator (Q. Arb.), Mr. Laberge is a trusted legal educator and speaker – holding an adjunct professorship with the Law Faculty at the University of Ottawa – French Common Law section since 2010.
Prior to creating Laberge Resolution, Mr. Laberge was the youngest ever and only fully bilingual Practice Lead within the Litigation Services Department of the Law Society of Ontario. He prosecuted complex, sensitive and high-profile regulatory matters while leading a team composed of seasoned discipline counsel charged with the prosecution of equally challenging matters before the Law Society Tribunal of Ontario and appellate Courts.
Before joining the Law Society, Mr. Laberge was a seasoned advocate and litigator with a successful track record of litigating complex civil matters in French and English before numerous administrative tribunals and all Court levels in Ontario. Mr. Laberge earned the distinction of being the youngest partner to lead the Litigation Department in the firm’s history at Low Murchison Radnoff LLP, one of Ottawa’s oldest and most trusted full-service law firms. While in private practice, Mr. Laberge acted both for individuals as well as sophisticated institutional and corporate clients, the latter including financial institutions and all types of specialised corporations including condominium corporations, insurers, school boards and municipalities.
A result of his unique professional background, Mr. Laberge takes a strategic approach to his work, characterized by integrity, impartiality and a deep passion for the law. At Laberge Resolution, we get it because we’ve been there. Each matter is unique and our approach has been developed with this in mind.
At Laberge Resolution, we understand that a one-size fits all approach to conflict resolution will not yield practical and workable solutions. Going through the motions is simply not enough. Our bespoke approach to conflict resolution is the solution.
Key to our conflict resolution approach is ensuring that the parties understand they are being heard and that the process is conducted in a fair, transparent and equitable manner. We are committed to engaging with the parties and adjusting our approach to remove logistical and process obstacles – so you can focus all your energies on resolving issues and achieve resolution.
Unless instructions are received from counsel (or the parties, if unrepresented), fees for mediation or arbitration services will be divided equally among the counsel for the parties (or parties, as applicable). All accounts for fees, disbursements and HST are due and payable when rendered. Overdue accounts bear interest at the rate of 5% per annum calculated monthly until paid in full.
Our preferred rates and fees for 2024 are as follow:
Block fee (minimum), plus reasonable disbursements (if any), plus HST
Plus travel and reasonable disbursements (if any), plus HST.
Plus travel and reasonable disbursements (if any), plus HST.
For times exceeding the above, a rate of $350 per hour, plus HST, will be charged for every hour or part hour over the standard set time (3 or 6 hour) mediation time, as applicable. A premium may apply to mediations involving more than three parties.
Block fee (minimum), plus reasonable disbursements (if any), plus HST
For Virtual or Outside of Ottawa Arbitrations: a per diem will be negotiated.
In keeping with our bespoke approach, we will work with you to adjust our fee structure on a case-by-case basis, taking into account a myriad of factors, including, but not limited to, the nature of the client, the services required, the timelines for deliverables, the complexity of the work, applicable tariffs or fees, etc.
