Our Team

Richard G. Stock, M.A., FCIS, CMC

Richaard Stock Richard is the founding partner of Catalyst Consulting. He has been working with lawyers for more than 35 years - first as a client representative, then as a legal executive with a national firm, and for the last 14 years as a legal services consultant. His practice is divided between corporate/government law departments and law firms. Consulting engagements cover the spectrum of business strategy, organizational issues, performance and legal economics. Richard is a frequent speaker at conferences and publishes regularly. He has completed more than 500 consulting engagements for law departments, law firms and legal associations in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Europe over the last fourteen years.

Richard is a serious cook. His research extended to on-site sampling in Italy in 2004, Napa, Paris, Savannah and Australia in 2005, and New Zealand in 2006. He has returned to Australia and New Zealand several times a year in the never-ending quest for culinary appreciation.

rstock@catalystlegal.com
(416) 367-4447, ext. 1

Denis Lessard, B.B.A.

Denis has been with Catalyst since 1995, mostly on a part-time basis. He currently supports us on wide variety of consulting engagements. Among other things, he compiles data from benchmarking and client satisfaction surveys and participates in the analyses of law firm financial information and outside counsel data. He is also very useful in supporting the team when computer glitches occur on the road. Denis graduated from Bishop's University in the Eastern Townships with a Bachelor of Business Administration.

When he isn't busy with his full-time work in Montreal or with Catalyst work, he busies himself with his second career in the Canadian Forces Primary Reserve as a Regimental Sergeant-major of the Royal Canadian Hussars (Mtl).