Andréane started her law career at a top Canadian firm in Ottawa in 2018 where she articled in the advocacy department and was then hired on as an Associate. During her time as an Associate, Andréane worked on a broad range of civil litigation matters for both public and private sector clients from a variety of industries and professions, including municipalities, professional health associations, lawyers, indigenous communities, school boards and business owners. In addition to working on civil litigation matters, she also has significant experience working on matters relating to contract disputes, estate litigation, insurance defense and management-side employment matters. She then left private practice for an in-house counsel role in the public sector as a Labour Relations Advisor. 

 

Called to the bar in June of 2019, Andréane is a graduate from the University of Ottawa’s bijural Programme de droit canadien from which she obtained her Juris Doctor as well as her Licentiate in Law. Prior to attending law school, she completed two undergraduate degrees from the University of Hearst, a Bachelor of Business in Administration and a Bachelor of arts in Psychology. Having had a first career as a Funeral Director, she also obtained her Funeral Service Education from Humber College as well as her Funeral Director licence in 2009.

 

It was in her early twenties that Andréane found herself in Toronto practicing in her first line of work as a Funeral Director. After acquiring solid experience working in multiple large funeral homes in the City she came back to her hometown of Hearst where she devoted herself to her community and the surrounding area as a Funeral Director while managing all aspects of her family’s funeral home business, the Lafrance Funeral Home. Following this first career path, she moved to Ottawa in 2015 to pursue her legal studies.

 

During law school, she worked as a research assistant in the field of Indigenous law and interned and volunteered at the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Ottawa. She also worked as a law student at Transport Canada where she dealt with administrative law matters.

 

Andréane is a Roster member for Legal Aid Ontario and accepts legal aid certificates for family law matters. She is also currently a member of the Family Law Association, the Cochrane Law Association as well as the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario. 

 

Andréane is fluently bilingual and serves clients in both French and English.