Jean-François Léger Barrister & Solicitor
Overview
- Highly respected and successful regulatory counsel with extensive experience developing and implementing innovative and effective regulatory and business strategies,
- active participant in almost every key regulatory initiative in the last 20 years, from interexchange and local competition to CRTC Interconnection Steering Committee proceedings,
- possesses technical acumen in a wide range of regulatory areas in telecommunications.
- Fully bilingual (French and English).
Areas of Practice
- Experience in a wide variety of telecommunications matters and successful representation of clients in bi-lateral and multi-party negotiations as well as in disputes brought before the CRTC in a range of matters including:
- Local and long distance wireline telephony
- Network interconnection arrangements
- Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony
- Internet services
- Wireless services
- Emergency (9-1-1) calling services
- Carrier access to public rights of way and real estate developments
- 900/976 calling services
- Consumer issues
Membership
Jean-François Léger is a Member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (1988) and the Barreau du Québec (1986).
Education
- Civil (B.C.L) and Common Law (LL.B.) degrees (1983) from McGill University, Faculty of Law;
- B. of Arts degree (1979), Canadian History and Political Science from McGill University.