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Graduated from Loyola College, with a major in Political Science, Me Yves Legris went to University of Montreal Law School where he obtained his law degree (L.L.L.) and to Université of Montpellier, France, where he did doctorate studies in Public Law.

As a law student, he worked for Stikeman, Elliott and Ogilvy, Renaud , two major law firms in Montreal.

Special Assistant in the Prime Minister's Office in the fall of 1967, he became Special Assistant to the Postmaster General and Minister of Communications, Mr. Eric Kierans, the following summer. He also served as Special Assistant to the Minister of Regional Development, Mr. Jean Marchand, before becoming legal advisor in the Department of Communications. In that capacity, he worked on amendments to the Railway Act (which appied to certain types of communications, at the time) and headed the Working Group of lawyers responsible for the report of the Telecommission on the legal and constitutional aspects of telecommunications in Canada. He also participated in various international conferences in the field of telecommunications and, more specifically, to the renewal of the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union, in Geneva, where he was a member of the drafting committee. He also participated in the work of the Working Group on Direct Broadcasting by satellite, a sub-committe of the Outer Space Committee of the United Nations, in New York.

He gave a course in constitutional law on the sharing of legislative powers in the field of telecommunications in Canada, at the doctorate level, at University of Ottawa.

Upon his return to Montreal, he became Legal Advisor at the head office of Dominion Textile and then, Corporate Secretary and Legal Advisor for Nedco (1975) Ltd. He was then a member of the Board of Directors of several subsidiairies in the Nedco group of companies.

He has been practicing on his own since 1977 : Civil law, divorce, civil liability, criminal and penal law. His practice has been geographically concentrated in the district of Montreal and its surrondings, although he has pleaded in most of the judicial districts located between Trois-Rivières and Hull, Mont-Laurier and Drummondville.  He has pleaded before the various juridictions of the Province, the Court of Quebec, the Superior Court and before the Quebec Court of Appeal. He also pleaded before the Military Court, prior to the Somalia cases, when it was not as yet common for non-military attorneys to plead before a Military Court.
 

For several years, he was a member of the Board of directors of Vie des Arts, an art magazine. He was also an active member of the Parents' Committee of Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal, a well known choir in Quebec. He has writen a novel which is published on this site under the title "La Southern". He has also writen a humoristic story in slang (joual), called "Lettre d'un chasseur à son guide" which can be found here.