Our Students
Oscar Bourgeois
Oscar joined IMK in 2024 as a law student. He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree at McGill University, where he contributes to research in constitutional law, family law, and contract law. He is a founding member of the Transnational Justice Clinic at the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Before law school, Oscar taught French at the secondary and university levels, while completing studies in philosophy and French literature.
Henry Coomes
Henry joined IMK in 2023 as a law student. He is currently completing his B.C.L./J.D. degrees at McGill University. During his legal studies, Henry worked as a senior editor on the McGill Law Journal and completed two research assistantships in comparative legal history and privacy law respectively. In his third year, Henry was a student clerk at the Quebec Court of Appeal with the Honourable Stephen W. Hamilton. During his undergraduate and master’s degrees in history, he studied intellectual history and commodity flows in the Atlantic World.
Henry is looking forward to being involved in a wide range of files involving class actions, constitutional law, and commercial disputes.
Andrew Hamilton
Andrew joined IMK in 2022 as a law student. He is currently completing his bachelor’s degree at McGill university. During his studies, he volunteered at the McGill Legal Information Clinic as a caseworker. He also acted as Executive Editor and Finance Chair of Inter Gentes, the McGill Journal of International Law and Legal Pluralism. He represented McGill at the Davies Securities/Corporate Law Moot. During his undergraduate degree he was active on the college debate circuit, advancing to elimination rounds while representing the University of Chicago at both the North American Debate Championships and the US Universities Debate Championships.
Andrew is looking forward to being involved in a wide variety of files including class actions, constitutional law and corporate disputes.
Hugo Lefebvre
Hugo joined the IMK team in 2022 as a student-at-law. He is currently completing his law degree at the University of Montreal. Prior to that, he also completed a bachelor’s degree in International Studies at the same university. During his studies, Hugo worked for HocheLégal, a non-profit organization that offers legal services in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, volunteered at the Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement and completed a research assistantship in international governance. He is involved as editor-in-chief of the Pigeon dissident, the law student newspaper of the Université de Montréal.
Benoit Régimbald
Benoit joined IMK in 2024 as a law student and will begin articling at the firm in 2025. He completed his law degree at Université du Québec à Montréal in 2022. Throughout his law studies, Benoit volunteered for the Clinique juridique du Grand Montréal and the Legal Information Clinic at McGill. He also holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations and International Law from Université du Québec à Montréal during which he spent a summer term at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and did a student exchange at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. Before joining IMK, Benoit taught French as a second language in several high schools and adult education centres. He is currently completing a Master of Laws at McGill University. His thesis analyses non-compete agreements in Québec employment context through a comparative perspective.
Benoit is particularly interested in employment law, civil and constitutional litigation and class actions.
Song-Ly Tran
Song-Ly joined IMK in the summer of 2023 as a law student. She is currently completing the B.C.L./J.D. program at McGill University. During her studies, she wrote for the law student newspaper Quid Novi and worked as a research assistant at the faculty in class actions and privacy law, as well as for a non-profit organization in international human rights law. In her third year, she represented McGill at the Warren K. Winkler Class Actions Moot where her tandem won Best Defendant Factum. She also completed a legal internship at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights as part of McGill’s International Human Rights Internship Program and worked for a boutique cybersecurity consulting firm. This upcoming year, she will be co-convening a student-initiated seminar course at McGill entitled “Introduction to the Law of Peace.”
Song-Ly is looking forward to being involved in a variety of files, particularly those pertaining to class actions, civil litigation, and constitutional law.
Claudia Xavier-Bonifay
Claudia joined IMK as a law student in May 2023. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). During her studies, she worked as coordinator of the Groupe de recherche sur le droit et la consommation and carried out research mandates for professors in the areas of contract law, consumer law and constitutional law. She also represented UQÀM at the Laskin national moot court competition, where her team won third prize for best factums. Prior to her legal studies, she worked for various international organizations in the areas of governance, rule of law and access to justice.
Once she completes her professional training at the Quebec Bar School, Claudia will clerk for the Honourable Yves de Montigny at the Federal Court of Appeal. She will subsequently clerk for the Honourable Justice Mary T. Moreau at the Supreme Court of Canada for the year 2025-2026. She will join the IMK team in the summer of 2026.
David Xing
David joined IMK in 2021 as a law student. He graduated the same year with a bachelor’s degree at Université de Montréal where he worked as a research and teaching assistant for a number of professors in public and private law and worked as a student clerk to the Honourable Yves-Marie Morissette at the Court of Appeal. He obtained a Master of Law (LL.M.) at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2022. Throughout his studies, he was awarded scholarships and distinctions, among which the Lieutenant-Governor’s Youth Medal.
After completing an internship at the World Food Programme in 2023, he will be serving as a law clerk for one of the judges at the Court of Appeal of Québec until 2025.