Since being called to the Quebec Bar in 2006, Mr. Berdnikoff has been practicing as a member of the firm's administrative law team. His primary fields of practice include access to information, protection of personal information, privacy matters, defamation, the application of the Canadian and Quebec charters of human rights and freedoms, and constitutional law.

 

Over the last few years, Mr. Berdnikoff has, on numerous occasions, advised and represented many public bodies and private businesses in connection with recourses before the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec involving the confidential nature of documents, the application of professional privilege, and other privacy issues.

 

In addition, Mr. Berdnikoff is regularly called upon to work on administrative and constitutional law matters, in particular those involving defamation, attacks on reputation, judicial review of a public authority's decision, and disputes in which the constitutional validity of a statute is challenged.