The Bâtonnier of Montreal

Mtre David Ettedgui (2010)

David Ettedgui has a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s in Law from the University of Montreal. He became a member of the Bar in 2010 and quickly made his mark by setting up his own firm (D.E LÉGAL) specializing in litigation and business law. He advised and represented different types of clients before the various courts and tribunals of Quebec as well as during private mediation and arbitration.

For the past five years, Mtre. Ettedgui has been President of the Investigation Committee of the Quebec Department of Education and Higher Education. In addition to his practice, he lectures in business law at HEC Montréal. Since 2022 he has been the senior partner at Kliger Ettedgui Legal Inc. (formerly D.E. LÉGAL) in Montreal.

One of Mtre. Ettedgui’s strengths is his extensive involvement in Quebec’s legal community. He was the youngest President of the Lord Reading Law Society and is a member of several boards of directors and committees, including the English Speaking Section of the Bar of Montreal and the Committee on Access to Justice in English which he joined in 2014.

He has also been involved in the Montreal Bar as Councillor (2018 to 2020), Treasurer (2021 to 2022) and First Councillor (2022/2023).

On May 10, 2023, he was officially named Bâtonnier de Montréal, succeeding Mtre. Julie Mousseau. He is the 158th Bâtonnier in the section’s history.

Former Bâtonniers

2020 to 2023

2022-2023
Julie Mousseau
1994
2021-2022
Extra Junior Laguerre
2007
2020-2021
Robin Schiller
1984
2019-2020
Alexandre Forest
2011

2010 to 2020

Michel P. Synnott
Brian R. Mitchell
Simon Tremblay
Magali Fournier, Ad. E.
Greg Moore
Luc Deshaies, Ad. E.
Catherine Pilon
Elizabeth Greene
1981
Marc Charbonneau
1976
Nicolas Plourde, Ad. E.
1993

2000 to 2009

Stephen G. Schenke
1990
Gilles Ouimet, Ad. E.
1987
Julie Latour
1988
David R. Collier
1984
Bernard Synnott, Ad. E.
1987
Stéphane Rivard
1979
Alan M. Stein
1963
Richard Wagner
1980
Michel A. Pinsonnault
1975
Lynne Kassie, Ad. E.
1976

1990 to 1999

Ronald Montcalm, c.r
1967
Pierre Fournier
1968
Richard J. McConomy
1971
Robert Mongeon
1970
Jean-Jacques Gagnon, Ad. E.
1959
Casper M. Bloom, Q.C.
1967
Pierrette Rayle
1970
Alain Letourneau, c.r., Ad. E.
1959
J. Arclen Blakely, Q.C.
1958
Jules O. Duchesneau, c.r.
1957

1980 to 1989

Rolland Boudreau, c.r.
Manuel Shacter, c.r., Ad. E.
Gabriel Lapointe, c.r.
Guy Gilbert, c.r., Ad. E.
J. Vincent O’Donnell, Q.C., Ad. E.
Marcel Bélanger, c.r
André Quesnel, c.r.
George A. Allison, Q.C.
Philippe Casgrain, c.r.
Paul Trudeau

1970 to 1979

John J. Pepper, Q.C.
Pierre Bourque, c.r.
Pierre De Grandpré, c.r.
Thomas H. Montgomery, Q.C
Gérard Beaupré, c.r.
Jacques Viau, c.r.
Donald Newton Byers, Q.C.
Yvon Jasmin, c.r.
Charles J. Gélinas, c.r.
Philipp F. Vineberg, O.C., Q.C., LL.D.

1960 to 1969

Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, c.r.
R.-M. Lacroix, c.r
Alexander John Campbell, Q.C.
Emile Poissant, c.r.
Léon Lalande, c.r.
John Lewis O’Brien, Q.C.
Jacques Sénécal, c.r.
Alfred Tourigny, c.r.
Adrian-K. Hugessen, Q.C.
Bernard Bourdon, c.r.

1950 to 1959

Rosario Genest, c.r.
Hugh Emmett O’Donnell, Q.C.
Pierre Amable Badeaux, c.r.
Victor Pager, c.r.
John-G. Ahern, Q.C.
Thomas Reginald Ker, Q.C.
Jean Martineau, C.C., c.r., LL.D
Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, c.r.
William Bridges Scott, Q.C
Edouard Asselin, c.r., LL.D.
F. Philippe Brais, C.C., c.r.

1940 to 1949

ilion Graves Heward, K.C.
Gustave Monette, c.r.
J. Alexandre Prud’Homme, c.r.
John Thomas Hackett, K.C.
Antonio Perrault, c.r.
Charles-Auguste de Lotbinière Harwood, c.r.
Robert Clark McMichael, K.C.
Warwick Fielding Chipman, K.C.
Elie Beauregard, c.r.
Francis Fauteux, c.r.
Lawrence MacFarlane, K.C.

1930 to 1939

Arthur William Patrick Buchanan, K.C.
Paul Lacoste, c.r.
Pierre Beullac, c.r.
hn Augustine Mann, K.C.
Arthur Vallée, c.r.
Guillaume André Fauteux, c.r.
Henry Noel Chauvin, K.C.
L. Emery Beaulieu, c.r., LL.D.
Alfred Duranleau, c.r.
Alfred Duranleau, c.r.
Oscar Pierre Dorais, c.r.

1920 to 1929

Henri Gérin-Lajoie, c.r.
Rodolphe Monty, c.r.
George Hugh Alexander Montgomery, K.C.
Paul St-Germain, c.r.
Napoléon Kemner Laflamme, c.r.
John-W. Cook, K.C.
Ernest Pélissier, c.r.
Joseph Leonide Perron, c.r.
Gordon Walters Macdougall, c.r.
Louis Conrad Pelletier, c.r.
Georges Greene Foster, K.C.

1910 to 1919

Aimé Geoffrion, c.r.
Henry J. Kavanagh, K.C.
Charles Laurendeau, c.r.
Albert William Atwater, K.C.
François de Sales Bastien, c.r.
John Edward Martin, K.C.
Joseph Louis Archambault, c.r.
A.J. Brown, K.C.
François Joseph Bisaillon, c.r.
Robert C. Smith, K.C.

1900 to 1909

Honoré Gervais, c.r.
Frederick Edmund Meredith, K.C.
Pierre Basile Mignault, c.r.
Eugène Lafleur, c.r.
Gustave Lamothe, c.r.
Donald MacMaster, K.C.
Siméon Beaudin, c.r.
William John White, K.C.
Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore, c.r.

1890 to 1899

Christopher Benfield Carter, Q.C.
Joseph-Emery Robidoux, c.r.
John Dunlop, Q.C.
Louis-Olivier Taillon, c.r.
Frédéric Liguori Béique, c.r.
Norman-William Trenholme, Q.C.

1880 to 1889

Rouer Roy, c.r.
Alex-Hutech Lunn
Honoré Mercier, c.r.
Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion, c.r.
William Wilcox Robertson, Q.C.
Alexandre Lacoste, c.r.

1870 to 1879

William H. Kerr, Q.C.
Antoine-Aimé Dorion, c.r.
Marcus Doherty, Q.C.
F. Cassidy, c.r.
John James Day, Q.C.
Gédéon Ouimet, c.r.

1860 to 1869

Alexander Cross, Q.C.
Joseph Doutre, c.r.
Andrew Robertson, Q.
Toussaint Antoine Rodolphe Laflamme, c.r.
Charles-André Leblanc, c.r.
Strachan Bethune, Q.C.
Antoine-Aimé Dorion, c.r.
Robert Mackay, Q.C.
Strachan Bethune, Q.C.

1849 to 1859

Joseph-Amable Berthelot, c.r.
Henry Stuart, Q.C.
Côme-Séraphin Cherrier
William Badgley, Q.C.
Antoine-Aimé Dorion, c.r.
Toussaint Peltier
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