Florence Méthot is a versatile, bilingual lawyer. Her practice focuses on public law, commercial litigation, class actions and appeals proceedings. Florence contributes to the development of strategies for complex litigation, prepares legal opinions and represents clients before the courts.

In particular, Florence has worked on cases involving challenges to government decisions and regulations. She has also been involved in commercial litigation raising complex issues of statutory and regulatory interpretation, as well as public law disputes involving constitutional questions of division of powers and rights guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Charter of Human Rights.

While in law school, Florence volunteered at the Clinique de droit international pénal et humanitaire (international criminal and humanitarian law clinic) at Université Laval and at the Ligue des droits et libertés. She also represented Université Laval at the 2018 Jean-Pictet International Humanitarian Law Competition in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. She made the honour roll of Université Laval’s law faculty for her academic excellence.

Florence clerked for Justice Malcolm Rowe at the Supreme Court of Canada during the 2022-2023 judicial year, and for Justice Jocelyn F. Rancourt at the Quebec Court of Appeal from 2019 to 2021.