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Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.  514-982-5010 jnuss@woods.qc.ca Nationality: Canadian Languages: English, French, Italian, Hungarian     Academic Background   1960 INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE D’ÉTUDES EUROPÉENNES, TURIN, ITALY Certificat d’Études Supérieures Européennes – On Scholarship   1959 ADMITTED TO THE BAR OF QUEBEC   1955-1958 McGILL UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF LAW Bachelor of Civil Law   1951-1955 McGILL UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Bachelor of Arts       Professional Experience   Since 2009 WOODS LLP, attorneys: Senior Counsel   1995-2009 QUEBEC COURT OF APPEAL, Judge   1961-1995 AHERN LALONDE NUSS DRYMER (successor of HYDE & AHERN), attorneys: Senior Partner       Teaching and Professional Activities   1988-1995 Counsel pro bono publico of InterAmicus, an organization based at the Faculty of Law of McGill University for the protection and promotion of human rights   1976-1977 Lecturer, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Civil procedure, Judicial Review   Since 1975 Lecturer on the Art of Advocacy before Trial Courts and Appeal Courts   1964-1965 Tutor, Faculty of Law, McGill University       Legal Publications - Conferences   Articles & Conferences   The Cambridge Lectures, Moderator for the lecture by U.S. District Court Judge the Honourable Lee Rosenthal on “Class Actions : the need for reform”,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  July, 2009   The Lord Reading Law Society, lecture at the annual Alan B. Gold Memorial Advocacy Lecture on “The art of advocacy”,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  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”,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  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,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  November , 2008   The Cambridge Lectures, Moderator for the lecture by the Honourable Frank Iacobucci on “Class actions and the Indian residential school settlement”,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  July , 2007   International conference on mediation in Vilnius, Lithuania, lecture on “Mediation in the Quebec Court of Appeal”,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  May, 2007   Professional Forum, lecture on “The evaluation of a business”,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  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”,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  June, 1991   The Canadian Institute, lecture on “Shareholders agreements”,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  April, 1990   The René Cassin Lectureship in Human Rights at McGill University. A participant at each of the eleven lectures ,  Hon. Joseph R. Nuss Q.C.,  since, 1988       Professional Associations   Quebec Bar Canadian Bar Association Queen’s Counsel since 1976 Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 1986 Recipient of the distinction in 2002 Ufficiale dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic)     Club Memberships   University Club of Montreal Hillside Tennis Club Montefiore Club Club Sportif MAA

The Honourable Joseph R. Nuss is a former Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal. He joined Woods after his retirement from the Court and concentrates his practice in the fields of domestic and international arbitration and mediation. Prior to his appointment as a judge, Mr. Nuss was a renowned lawyer, specializing in litigation, who appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court, all the Courts of Quebec as well before administrative tribunals, in various areas of the law. He was also counsel before a number of Federal Commissions of Inquiry. As a judge, he was a mediator within the framework of the system of mediation established in the Court of Appeal. Mr. Nuss was also a lecturer on mediation at national and international conferences.

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