Conlin Bedard LLP

About Conlin Bedard LLP

Conlin Bedard LLP is an Ottawa based law firm built around international trade, federal regulatory law, and related litigation. Benjamin Bedard and Paul Conlin founded the firm in 2012 after both had been partners at a large international law firm. According to the Legal 500, the firm has represented lead parties in approximately 50 percent of all new trade proceedings in Canada since its 2012 founding, and it has built its practice mainly around trade remedies work. The office sits at 220 Laurier Avenue West in downtown Ottawa, a location the firm's own site describes simply as being in Canada's capital.

The practice today spans customs law, export controls and economic sanctions, WTO and CUSMA treaty disputes, trade policy, investor state arbitration, government contracting and public procurement, competition and antitrust, indigenous law, and transportation regulation covering aviation and rail. Conlin Bedard has added senior counsel as it has grown: a counsel who joined in 2022 previously chaired the Canadian International Trade Tribunal for many years, and a senior counsel who joined later that year had served as a Justice of the Federal Court of Canada and a judicial member of the Competition Tribunal. Bedard has been appointed by the Government of Canada to the NAFTA Chapter 19 trade remedies roster of panelists, and Conlin has been appointed to Canada's roster of panelists for CUSMA disputes.