2011 – Me Nicola Di Iorio

Mtre. Di Iorio is a member of the Barreau du Québec since 1982. He obtained his bachelor's degree in law from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1981. He also obtained a master's degree in law from Columbia University in New York in 1983.

· Mtre. Di lorio joined the firm Heenan Blaikie in 1988, after having been an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke from 1983 to 1988. In addition to his practice, Mtre. Di lorio teaches various subjects relating to law work. He has taught at the Université de Montreal, Concordia University and McGill University. The courses for which he was responsible dealt with property law as well as the law of obligations. In addition, he taught a course entitled “The Art of Negotiation” at the Professional Training School of the Barreau du Québec, where he currently teaches labor law, administrative law and civil liberties. He also gave courses on the law of obligations as part of the training on the reform of the Civil Code provided to lawyers by the Barreau du Québec. He has been a partner of Heenan Blakie since 1992. Mtre. Di lorio is a member of the board of directors of MégaBrands where he chairs the human resources and remuneration committee.

· Mtre. Di lorio's practice covers all aspects of labor law, employment law as well as relevant aspects of administrative law.

· Mtre. Di lorio is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is co-author of the two editions of the book Labor standards, published by Éditions Revue de Droit of the Université de Sherbrooke. In addition, Mtre. Di lorio held the position of director of the Revue de droit of the Université deSherbrooke from 1984 to 1987. Since the start of his career, Mtre. Di lorio has given numerous lectures on all aspects of law labor and employment and has published extensively on the subject.

· In the company of Mr. Jos Borsellino and Mr. Silvio De Rose, Mtre. Di Iorio proceeded to found the Leonardo Da Vinci Center. Moreover, he has been governor of the Canadian-Italian Community Foundation of Quebec since 1994. He sat on the board of trustees of this organization for two (2) terms.