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 Message for Orange Shirt Day
September 29, 2026 | UncategorizedCONTENT WARNING: Residential School and Related Traumas On Wednesday, September 30, 2026, JFK Law will pause activity to observe Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Our offices will be closed so that members of our team can take the day to honour residential school Survivors, remember the children who never
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JFK Law Recognized in the 2027 Chambers Canada Rankings
September 24, 2026 | JFK NewsWe are proud to announce that the firm and five of our lawyers have once again been recognized in the 2027 Chambers Canada rankings for Aboriginal Law. These rankings reflect Chambers’ independent research process, which evaluates legal excellence through feedback from clients, peers, and industry leaders across Canada. We are honoured to be recognized for
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Looking Beyond Reserve Lands: What Opaskwayak Cree Nation v. Canada Means for First Nations
September 23, 2026 | UncategorizedThe Federal Court’s recent decision in Opaskwayak Cree Nation v Canada, 2026 FC 1110 provides important guidance on the scope of the Crown’s fiduciary duty when it expropriates reserve lands and how courts may approach compensation where those obligations are breached. The Federal Court found that Canada breached its fiduciary duty to the Opaskwayak Cree
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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”).