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.
From our News & Blog
Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day: A Time for Reflection and Action
June 21, 2025 | UncategorizedJFK Law will be closed this weekend and on Monday, June 23rd to celebrate and connect with the communities and Indigenous territories where we live and work. This day is a chance to reflect on our role in advancing reconciliation. June is National Indigenous History Month, featuring inclusive gatherings with live music, workshops, art, and
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JFK Law assists Tŝilhqot’in Nation in reaching historic agreement with BC and Taseko Mines for Teẑtan Biny (Fish Lake)
June 20, 2025 | JFK News, Of InterestOn June 5, 2025 the Tŝilhqot’in Nation announced a path-breaking set of agreements with the Province of British Columbia and Taseko Mines Limited regarding the area surrounding Teẑtan Biny (Fish Lake). Teẑtan Biny is an area of profound spiritual importance to the Tŝilhqot’in Nation, over which they have proved their Aboriginal rights. It also holds
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Alberta’s Draft Upper Smoky Sub-Regional Plan Fails to Protect Woodland Caribou or Consider Cumulative Effects: The Case for Federal Action
June 20, 2025 | Commentary, Of InterestOn March 27, 2025, the Government of Alberta released the draft Upper Smoky Sub-Regional Plan (the “Draft Plan”), intended to guide future land use and development decisions in the northwestern Alberta sub-region encompassing the ranges of two highly threatened woodland caribou herds. For reference, the Draft Plan defines the Upper Smoky Sub-region as south of
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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”).