Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Using the courts strategically to advance your Nation’s Rights
Our team of experienced litigators advance our clients’ interests in courts across the country. We prove and protect your rights through strategic litigation, including Aboriginal rights and title cases, Treaty infringement litigation, judicial reviews, and interventions in important cases.
Consultation, Accommodation and Regulatory Review
Making the Crown comply with the duty to consult and accommodate
We help our clients advance their right to free, prior and informed consent when consulting with the Crown. This includes helping Indigenous communities develop their own consultation processes, negotiate alternatives to the duty to consult framework, respond to referrals in their traditional territories, engage in environmental assessment processes, and challenge decisions made without proper consultation and accommodation.
Complex Negotiations
Securing and implementing your community’s rights through complex negotiations
Our lawyers support Indigenous communities in advancing their rights and securing economic opportunities through complex negotiations with government and industry, including impact benefit agreements, complicated commercial agreements and modern treaties. We focus on pushing the envelope and ensuring that government and industry respond to what our clients want to achieve.
Economic Development and Governance
Helping build strong, sustainable communities
JFK Law works alongside Indigenous communities to advance self-government and build a solid foundation for economic development.
From our Blog
JFK’s Claire Truesdale presents at the Indigenous Membership and Identity Forum held by the Pacific Business & Law Institute
February 4, 2025 | CommentaryOn January 30th, JFK’s Claire Truesdale presented at the Indigenous Membership and Identity forum held by the Pacific Business & Law Institute (PBLI) in Vancouver on Indian Status, Membership, and the Second-Generation Cut-off in Canadian Law. This presentation highlighted the impacts the Indian Act had on Indian Status, Membership and community cohesion and identity. The
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JFK Law Welcomes Avery Pasternak & Sage Duquette!
February 3, 2025 | UncategorizedJFK is excited to welcome Avery Pasternak (she/her) and Sage Duquette (he/him) as temporary additions to our team. Avery is thrilled to spend part of her articling term with JFK’s Vancouver office, joining us on secondment from Ecojustice Canada. Sage joins us as a winter student from McGill University as his placement work while he
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JFK Law Proud Supporter Partner for West Coast LEAF Equality Breakfast
January 30, 2025 | UncategorizedFor over a decade JFK Law has been a proud supporter of gender justice and sponsor of West Coast LEAF. We’re thrilled to be a Supporter Partner for their 2025 Equity Breakfast!
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West Jet Class Action
This is the landing point for a class action that has been filed by Mandalena Lewis against WestJet Airlines Ltd. (“WestJet”).