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, claims at the Specific Claims Tribunal 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, specific claims 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.
Indigenous Wealth Development
Empowering Indigenous Financial Success with Integrity and Expertise
JFK Law offers specialized expertise in areas such as business development, regulatory compliance, and partnership agreements, ensuring that our Indigenous clients receive tailored, respectful, and effective legal solutions. Our commitment is to empower Indigenous businesses and communities, fostering growth and success through strategical legal support.
Specific Claims
JFK Law: Leaders in Specific Claims Resolution
JFK Law is a national leader in Specific Claims, with lawyers across Canada guiding First Nations through every stage of the Specific Claims process. We represent our clients from the early research and development stage to negotiation and representation before the Specific Claims Tribunal. We have successfully resolved claims resulting in significant outcomes in terms of land repatriation and wealth creation for our clients. Our team combines legal expertise with genuine partnership, working to right historical wrongs and build stronger futures for First Nations communities.
From our News & Blog
JFK’s Clayton Leonard featured in article “Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water”
May 27, 2026 | Commentary, Of InterestCheck out the article “Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water” featuring JFK’s Clayton Leonard, published in both the National Post and on the University of Toronto’s Investigative Journalism Bureau website.
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JFK Partner Nadir André on Radio Canada: “De l’Alberta au Québec, l’incontournable réalité des droits autochtones”
May 27, 2026 | Commentary, Of InterestCheck out Nadir’s latest article on Radio Canada Espace autochtones here: “De l’Alberta au Québec, l’incontournable réalité des droits autochtones”
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Treaty Rights and Alberta Separatism: The Crown’s Duty to Consult in Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation v Alberta (Chief Electoral Officer)
May 20, 2026 | Commentary, Of InterestIn a significant decision released on May 13, 2026, Justice Shaina Leonard of the Alberta Court of King’s Bench quashed Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer’s (“CEO”) approval of an initiative petition under the Citizens Initiative Act seeking a referendum on Alberta independence. Had the petition succeeded, it would have triggered a province-wide referendum on Alberta’s separation
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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”).