Description
Bâtonnier Henri Grondin is a lawyer specialized in both labour & administrative law and aboriginal law.

Mr. Grondin is highly regarded in business and government circles. He is currently the honorary Consul of Finland in Québec City, an honorary life member of the American Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association, a member of the Advisory Committee of Laval University’s Faculty of Law, chair of the Canadian Association of Members of the Ordre national du mérite de France, and vice-chair of the Société des relations internationales de Québec.

Mr. Grondin has received numerous decorations throughout his career, including that of Knight of the National Order of Québec (Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Québec), Officer of France’s National Order of Merit (Officier de l’Ordre national du Mérite) and of Finland’s Order of the White Rose, and Knight of the National Order of Burkina Faso (Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Burkina Faso).
 
Associations & Achievements
2004 to 2005 - Chair of the International Francophone Bar Conference (CIB)

2001 to 2007 - Member of the Conseil de la Magistrature du Québec and of its Executive Committee

1994 to 2009 - Chair and member of the board of Quebec’s Musée de la civilization

1991 to 1992 – Global chair of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA)

1989 to 1995 - Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague

Since 1987 - Honorary Consul of Finland

1980 to 1986 - Chair of Quebec’s Conseil consultatif de la justice

1975 to 1976 – Bâtonnier (President) of the Quebec Bar

1974 to 1975 - Bâtonnier (President) of the Québec City Bar