André Lespérance, a lawyer to discover

Originated from the United State, now spread in all Common Law country, the class action is a way for all costumers to gather together to sue a company. Mister Andre Lesperance is lawyer that defends customer’s rights against multiple companies such as the Tobacco Industry.  He was a senior general council for the government of Canada but he decided to retire so he could have his own class action firm. He knew some good lawyer that did that type of work so he got into a partnership with them. Now they work on very interesting cases.

everybody has goals, but goals remain dreams if you never jump in and do what it takes to realise them.

Sir Lespérance has certain goals he wants to achieve in his personal but also professional life. First of all, his principal objective for now is to win against Tobacco Company and in a more general idea related to his work, he would like to really be able to help people, to make a difference. But Mister Lespérance is not only a lawyer, he is also a father, so his most important goal in life is to make sure that his kids are, and always be, happy.

Work is a very important part of everybody’s life, but it’s not what defines somebody, his interest and also his network, in another hand, normally do. André Lespérance, besides being a lawyer, is a music fan. He plays saxophone and flute every Wednesday with some of his friends, other lawyers. Also, he bought about 7 years ago, a sugar shack, and since then he does maple syrup every spring with his family. During the year, he prepares his land, cuts the trees that interfere with the maple trees.  He loves doing that, going in the country, living in the little house he made, it helps him to disconnect from Montreal and his work. He bought this land with an old high school friend. Him and his wife were together in high school, and there social network of that time is still most likely the same. None of his friends did official work such as his, or his wife who’s a university professor, they are writers and draughtsman. We can conclude that his interests and social network are not typical of a lawyer as we see them.

To be able to go forward in life, we develop a lot of different skills that help us in our personal or professional life. Our achievements are the representation of those skills. Sir Lespérance definitively succeeds in his work, as shown at the beginning. He did that because he is a good arguer. He understands well the opponent and know how to build a strategic attack related to what he perceived. In his more personal life, he is able to build a house, to do very good maple syrup and take care of a large land. To conclude, André Lespérance is somebody that is worth knowing because he has very diversified interest, skills, and network and achieved a lot and will continue to do so.