Mandy Alessandrini

Mandy Alessandrini focuses her practice on family law.

Prior to joining Dunton Rainville, Me. Alessandrini worked in private practice with major Québec law firms as a lawyer, legal counsel and mediator, primarily in the areas of contract law and family law.

She also worked as a lawyer in the legal department of the Attorney General of Québec and carried out several mandates for Revenue Québec during the reform and implementation of the Unclaimed Property Act.

At the beginning of her career, she was a researcher at the Québec Court of Appeal and coordinator of the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) of the Université de Montréal, one of the main legal research centers in the country.

She holds a master’s degree in law from the Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University and was a candidate for a Doctorate in law at the Université de Montréal.  Her graduate studies were conducted in both civil and common law in contractual and extra-contractual liability.  She is also an accredited mediator in family, civil, commercial and labour mediation.

Committed and passionate about the law, she conducts her cases with rigour and thoroughness.

Areas of expertise

• Family law
• Estates, mandates in the event of incapacity
• Civil and commercial law

Admission to the Bar

• 1999

Education

• Trial advocacy (seminar) – Université de Sherbrooke
• Accreditation in civil, commercial and labour mediation – Barreau du Québec
• Accreditation in family mediation – Barreau du Québec
• LL.D – Université de Montréal
• LL.M. – McGill University
• LL.B – Université du Québec à Montréal
• Certificate in Law – Université de Montréal

Professional activities and associations

• Member of the Association des avocats et avocats en droit familial du Québec
• Member of the English Speaking Bar Association
• Member of the Legislation and Law Reform Committee, Québec Section of the Canadian Bar Association
• Member of the CAIJ Liaison Committee, Québec Bar
• Member of the Board of Directors, St. Gallen Patrick Development Foundation
• Casual license, Law Society of Ontario – Barreau de l’Ontario (2017 to 2020)