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John Olthuis

  • Comprehensive and specific land rights negotiations
  • Inherent Aboriginal government negotiations
  • Impacts and benefits agreement negotiations
  • Civil litigation for Aboriginal clients on a variety of matters

Nancy Kleer
  • Comprehensive land rights negotiations
  • Advice on federal and provincial environmental protection and assessment law, including species protection legislation
  • Impacts and benefits agreement negotiations
  • Advice on duty to consult and accommodate
  • Reserve creation and additions to reserve
  • Advice on Indian Act, including reserve land management and band membership issues
  • Trust indenture drafting
  • Nonprofit corporation set-up and ongoing advice, including charitable law advice

  Roger Townshend
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation, including Aboriginal title litigation and defending charges against Aboriginal harvesters
  • Specific claims negotiations
  • Constitutional litigation
  • Human rights litigation
  • Judicial review applications
  • Advice on duty to consult and accommodate

Kate Kempton
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation
  • Civil litigation, including injunction applications
  • Inquests into wrongful deaths
  • Advice on reassertion of inherent sovereignty, inherent governance, legal and territorial systems, and role of international law
  • Environmental litigation and advice regarding  environmental protection law and policy
  • Impacts and benefits agreement negotiations
  • Human rights litigation

 

Bryce Edwards
  • Advice on legislative, regulatory and policy negotiations with governments
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation
  • Specific and Comprehensive Claims Negotiations
  • Negotiations with proponents and government on natural resource projects
  • Advice on the duty to consult and accommodate
  • Civil litigation, including injunction applications
  • Human rights claims
  • Advice on federal and provincial environmental protection and assessment law

Derek Chum
  • Corporate/commercial
  • Not-for-profit
  • Aboriginal law

Maggie Wente
  • Advice to First Nations regarding employment, labour, construction law and housing on reserves
  • Advice on Indian Act, including band membership, availability of taxation exemptions
  • Human rights litigation and policy advice
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation
  • Civil litigation

Lorraine Land
  • Litigation and advice on Aboriginal and treaty rights matters
  • Litigation and advice on land claims negotiations and implementation
  • Litigation and advice on the duty to consult and accommodate Aboriginal groups
  • Litigation and advice on environmental matters, including appearances before regulatory tribunals including Niagara Escarpment Commission, Environmental Review Tribunal, and Ontario Energy Board
  • Litigation and advice on public law matters including government procurement, statutory reform, elections laws, and other matters

 

 

Renée Pelletier
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation, including defending charges against Aboriginal harvesters
  • Specific claims negotiations
  • Impacts and benefits agreement negotiations
  • Advice on Indian Act, including reserve land management and negotiations with developers of reserve lands
  • Child welfare litigation for Aboriginal clients
  • Advice on duty to consult and accommodate
  • Judicial review applications

 

Larry Innes
  • Advice on federal and provincial environmental protection and assessment law
  • Advice on law and policy applicable to forest protection  and protection of other natural resources
  • Comprehensive land rights negotiations
  • Impacts and benefits agreements negotiations
  • Civil litigation and administrative law proceedings
  • Advice on duty to consult and accommodate
  • Nonprofit corporation set-up and ongoing advice, including charitable law advice

 

Cathy Guirguis
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation
  • Research and advice on human rights issues
  • Administrative and employment law matters

 

 

Matt McPherson
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation
  • Civil litigation
  • Aboriginal title claims

 

 

Senwung Luk
  • Aboriginal title litigation
  • Treaty rights litigation

 

  

  Julie Stewart
  • Constitutional law and Charter rights
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation
  • Advice on human rights issues
  • Entertainment law and intellectual property

 

Jesse McCormick
  • Civil litigation and administrative law proceedings
  • Impacts and benefits agreement negotiations
  • Judicial review applications
  • Advice on reassertion of inherent rights
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation

 

Sabrina Feldman
  • Aboriginal title litigation
  • Treaty rights litigation

 

 

Judith Rae
  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation
  • Advice on duty to consult and accommodate
  • Advice on human rights issues
  • Civil litigation and administrative law

 

Dan Shaule

Researcher and Document Manager

  • Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation
  • Advice on duty to consult and accommodate
  • Advice on human rights issues
  • Civil litigation and administrative law

 

  Marvin Huberman, affiliate
  • Business, corporate, commercial litigation
  • Employment law & partnership disputes
  • Administrative & constitutional law
  • Cross-border litigation

 

   
 

 

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