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Louis-Charles Sirois was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1983. 

He began his career in the regional office of the Federal Department of Justice in Montreal as one of the Crown attorneys as well as a litigator in the civil litigation section. 

Returning to his hometown of Ottawa in 1984, and throughout his forty-year legal career, he worked in numerous legal services departments.  

He began in government procurement-contract law, then in international sales and financing, followed by copyright licensing, patent licensing and in bankruptcy and insolvency law (Proposals). He is one of the founding members of the DOJ Centre of expertise in Procurement Law. 

As a University Professor he began his teaching career in 1992. He taught commercial law, administrative law and business law to accounting students at the University of Quebec for 30 years. He also provided lectures in business corporations law for 25 years at the École du Barreau du Québec. 

Today he is a professor at the Faculty of Law - Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa, where he teaches Bankruptcy Law to students in both Common Law and Civil Law sections of the faculty of law. 

He also lectures in Contracts 101 as well as Contractual remedies, as well as civil liability. He also lectures in Consumer Protection Legislation as well as in Business Law. 

Me Sirois was also a member of the Congress Committee of the Barreau du Québec, for three years, having been invited to this organizing committee by three different Bâtonniers. He was appointed chairman of this committee in 2010. He remains a member of the Quebec Bar as of 2020-2021. 

Louis-Charles Sirois studied in Ottawa at Lycée Claudel from 1964 to 1975. Admitted at the age of 16 to the University of Ottawa, he earned his first degree: a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Political Science, and then a law degree from the Faculty of Law:  Licence in Civil Law.

He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1983.

He began his legal career in the regional office of the Federal Department of Justice in Montreal, as one of the Crown prosecutors (criminal law) and as a litigator in the civil litigation section.

Returning to Ottawa in 1984, and throughout his 43-year legal career (as of 2025), he worked in numerous legal departments of federal government departments. All federal departments are served by lawyers from the Department of Justice, who provide legal advice upon request.

• Mr. Sirois has developed practical and functional expertise in several areas:
• Contract law in multinational purchases involving several countries purchasing from the same supplier (in Holland, Norway, and the United States).
• Contract law for international sales contracts by the Canadian government (before the governments (buyers) of the following countries: Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Tunisia, Algeria, and Soviet Russia).
• He has also developed parallel expertise in private international commercial law, applying and justifying the principles of the 1980 Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
• This expertise in international sales and purchase contracts has also developed collateral expertise, such as international bank financing and international transport conditions:
  International bank financing and conditional payment law under the then UNCITRAL rules: The Documentary Credit Rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, now (since 2017) the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records.
  International transport law and cargo-loss risk-management, subject to the Rules of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris under the rules known as: ICC-INCOTERMS.
• Mr. Sirois also specialized in drafting and negotiating Canadian government procurement contracts with foreign manufacturers, particularly in the United States. He thus specializes in negotiating major procurement contracts, each worth hundreds of millions of dollars, with American multinationals. These negotiations lasted several weeks in total and took place at various locations in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Tucson, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and New Haven, Connecticut.
• At the Department of Industry, he developed expertise in the law of conditional financing for Canadian companies through "contribution agreements" for national projects.
• At the NRC (National Research Council of Canada), he developed expertise in negotiating intellectual property licensing agreements for the industrial use of NRC-held patents by Canadian companies.
• As a specialist in bankruptcy law, he became an advisor to lawyers at the Department of Justice and served as an advisor to ministers and deputy ministers regarding corporate bankruptcy matters in Canada and the role and powers of the state in these bankruptcies.
• In patent matters, he also negotiated "in reverse" to obtain permission to manufacture in Canada, products protected by foreign patents. At that time, he drafted and negotiated licensing agreements for the use of patented technology for the manufacture of military products (patents originating in France for use in Canada).
• Mr. Sirois was also, for 5 years, the principal lawyer of the Queen’s Printer for Canada: where he drafted and negotiated license agreements for the publication of volumes protected by copyright, for editing and publication purposes.
• Trust expert: Mr. Sirois also managed a project concerning nuclear energy in Canada. He oversaw the drafting and negotiation of individual trust agreements for each Canadian province holding nuclear reactors. These trusts ensured the availability of the necessary funding for the eventual decommissioning of nuclear reactors, in each Canadian province, all for the CSNC (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission).
• He ended his career at the Department of Justice as one of the six founding members of the Federal Government's Centre of Legal Expertise in Procurement Contract Law. This law is a specialized branch of administrative law governing the conduct of government and the conduct of the parties regarding the selection of the retained contractor.
• After retiring, he was recalled in 2021 for a few years to "help out" his former colleagues at the Department of Justice, lending a hand with the government's emergency procurement of vaccines and other emergency products during the Covid crisis.
   

Simultaneously, during his career as a lawyer, Maître Sirois shared with students what he was learning in his practice.

His examples, drawn from his own life, provided students with real-life, concrete contexts.

This approach earned him numerous awards for the quality of his teaching. Several students even acknowledged that it was his passion for practicing law that drove them to leave their studies at the time to pursue law degrees. These students are now lawyers.

His teaching career began in 1992. He taught commercial law—that is, corporate law, bankruptcy law, and contract law—to future accountants.

He also teaches administrative law, basic labour law, union labour law, and business law.

For 25 years, he also taught corporate law at the Quebec Bar School and was even a member of the exam markers group at the same Quebec Bar School.

Today (2025), he is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Law - Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa, having been since January 2020.

At the law degree level, he taught Obligations I (Contracts) and Obligations II (Contracts in Default for defaulting Performance - Formal Notices).

The subjects taught annually at the University of Ottawa are now bankruptcy law, the law of obligations, consumer law, and a business law course for the Certificate in Law program.

He also teaches at the National Program level (a law program for students already holding a law degree and seeking a Degree in Quebec Civil Law). These courses are in English and are: Quebec Contract Law and Quebec Business Laws.

Mr. Sirois also participates in the Federal Legal Practice course with Professor Trépanier.

Director General in Government. Leadership in Continuing Legal Education Management.

At the Department of Justice, Mr. Sirois managed the Continuing Legal Education Office as Director General. He led a group of 22 employees and lawyers to implement, among other things, the first continuing legal education policy for all 3,000 lawyers in the Department.

Under his leadership, the Continuing Legal Education Office also created a comprehensive introductory program to law, including specialized federal law, for all non-lawyer employees of the Department.

His mandatory continuing legal education program aimed to keep lawyers up to date.

This program became a Departmental policy and subsequently served as an inspiration to provincial bar associations and law societies, which also subsequently created mandatory continuing legal education policies for their lawyers.

He created joint law programs with the Barreau du Québec and the Department of Justice to share knowledge for lawyers.

He was also elected president of the association of directors of continuing legal education by the ten provincial law associations for three years.

Mr. Sirois was also elected to the role of Chair of the Quebec Bar’s Annual Convention Committee, for an unprecedented three consecutive years; he was invited to chair the annual convention by three separate law society’s presidents.

He remains a lawyer and legal practitioner, and a member of the Barreau du Québec.