Former judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal (1995-2009); Appointed Queen's Counsel, 1976; Recipient of the distinction in 2002 Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic); Lecturer, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Civil procedure, Judicial Review; Lecturer on the Art of Advocacy before Trial Courts and Appeal Courts; Tutor, Faculty of Law, McGill University; The Cambridge Lectures, Moderator for the lecture by U.S. District Court Judge the Honourable Lee Rosenthal on "Class Actions : the need for reform," July, 2009; The Lord Reading Law Society, lecture at the annual Alan B. Gold Memorial Advocacy Lecture on "The art of advocacy," September, 2009; A Free Press and an Independent Judiciary, Conference in Halifax N.S., Panelist at session on "The media and the broadcast of Court hearings," November, 2008; Judges' Conference-Seminar, Quebec City, on the occasion of the 400th year anniversary of the founding of Quebec City - member of organizing committee, November, 2008; The Cambridge Lectures, Moderator for the lecture by the Honourable Frank Iacobucci on "Class actions and the Indian residential school settlement," July, 2007; International conference on mediation in Vilnius, Lithuania, lecture on "Mediation in the Quebec Court of Appeal," May, 2007; Professional Forum, lecture on "The evaluation of a business," November, 1991; Chosen by the Canadian Bar Association as lecturer for a conference in Budapest, Hungary, entitled "The role and obligations of lawyers in a democratic and free market society," June, 1991; The Canadian Institute, lecture on "Shareholders agreements," April, 1990; The René Cassin Lectureship in Human Rights at McGill University, since 1988 - participant at each of the eleven lectures;. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers.