Roch Dupont, Martin Dupont LLP | LawOnline Directory

About Roch

Roch Dupont is a lawyer at Martin Dupont LLP with 20 years of experience practising in multiple Canadian provinces, having worked as both a criminal defence lawyer and a Crown Attorney for the Attorney General of Canada. Dupont's practice has included competition law, mergers and acquisitions, price-fixing conspiracies, and fraudulent telemarketing, and included service as a federal prosecutor in drugs and gangs enforcement as well as fraudulent bankruptcy matters. Before becoming a lawyer, Dupont spent about 16 years as an Ottawa police officer, including roles as a major crimes investigator, on a police mobile emergency response unit, and investigating crimes against children, and completed training in terrorism financing, money laundering, and electronic interception for criminal prosecutions. Dupont has appeared at every level of court in every Canadian province, including the Federal Court of Canada, and has experience in criminal, regulatory, and administrative law. Dupont was formerly an adjunct professor in bankruptcy and insolvency law at the University of Ottawa and has taught criminal investigation courses to enforcement officers. Fluently bilingual, Dupont has more recently conducted class action litigation in several provinces, including Quebec, involving the Sixties Scoop, consumer products, and pharmaceutical claims. Dupont holds degrees including a bachelor's in social sciences (economics), a bachelor of arts in psychology, a Quebec civil law degree (LL.L.), and a common law LL.B., and is a member of the Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec bars.