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
Court Orders Advance Costs in Decade-Long Litigation over Treaty 6 Rights
October 2, 2024 | Commentary, Court ReviewOverview On August 30, 2024, the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta (the “Court”) released its decision awarding advance costs in the amount of $1.5 million a year to Beaver Lake Cree Nation, represented by Karey Brooks and Aria Laskin of JFK Law LLP. This decision is greatly important both to Beaver Lake’s litigation and
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Ermineskin Cree Nation’s legal action against Canada regarding the Nation’s right to safe drinking water
October 2, 2024 | Commentary, Of InterestErmineskin Cree Nation is pursuing legal action against Canada regarding the Nation’s right to safe drinking water. Karey Brooks and Clayton Leonard are representing the Ermineskin Cree Nation in a legal action about the right to safe drinking water of Ermineskin and its members. The action was originally filed against Canada in 2014 but was
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Honoring Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 27, 2024 | UncategorizedCONTENT WARNING: Residential School and Related Traumas JFK Law will be closed on Monday, September 30, to recognize Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We close our offices on this somber day to recognize the harms that the residential school system inflicted on Indigenous children, families, and communities, and to
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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”).