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.
Our Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action
Reconciliation
To some, reconciliation is the revitalization of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and all Canadians. To others, a respectful relationship never existed, and must be established and maintained for the first time. Consensus on what reconciliation means, and how it can be achieved, is not easy to find. What is clear, however, is that reconciliation requires self-education and transformative action on the part of both individuals and organizations alike. Without it, a nation to nation relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada cannot move forward.
From our Blog
Sara Mainville of JFK Law LLP is proud to have assisted as a legal advisor to the Little Bird series on Crave and APTN
May 26, 2023 | UncategorizedMay 26, 2023 the Crave and APTN (Lumi) series begins with the first episode of the six-part series, Little Bird. This is the work of several creators, Indigenous story-tellers and show-runner Jennifer Podemski. “I was always excited when Jennifer reached out to me, I am a fan and I know that Ms. Podemski is dedicated
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JFK Law Welcomes Paulina Treikauskaite
May 3, 2023 | UncategorizedJFK is pleased to introduce Paulina Treikauskaite to our team! Paulina Treikauskaite joins the assistant team as the Vancouver Office Clerk and Administrative Assistant to Christine Edelmann. Please join us in welcoming her to our firm.
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Isabelle Lefroy co-authors an article in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
May 3, 2023 | UncategorizedJFK’s Isabelle Lefroy co-authored an article in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law with Dr. Jocelyn Stacey about the gender-based analysis plus requirement in the federal Impact Assessment Act and its implications for the distributional impacts of resource development on marginalized communities. Major projects, such as mines, dams, and pipelines impose disproportionate social
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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”).