Memberships & Professional Affiliations
Law Society of Ontario
Awards
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2024 in Aboriginal Law / Indigenous Practice and Administrative and Public Law
Practice Areas
- Litigation
Lara’s practice encompasses First Nation laws and governance work, Aboriginal and Treaty rights litigation, and constitutional and public law litigation with a focus on equality rights and anti-discrimination law and policy matters.
Lara regularly works with First Nations on law-making, citizenship, and lands and resource issues and is passionate about advancing self-governance and land and water stewardship. Lara has a background in international human rights law with a particular focus on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Lara’s international human rights work has focused on advocating for domestic law and policy reform that provides for the recognition and protection of the rights set out in these international instruments in Canada.
Lara has appeared before every level of court in Ontario, the Federal Court and Court of Appeal, and administrative and human rights tribunals. She represents clients in and outside the court room, including in engagement processes, negotiations, mediations, judicial reviews, interventions, and appeals.
Lara received her Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law in 2017, graduating with the Dean’s Leadership Award and a Certificate in Aboriginal Legal Studies. She is an alumnus of the David Asper Centre’s Constitutional Advocacy Clinic and Osgoode Hall Law School’s Intensive Program in Aboriginal Lands, Resources and Governments. Lara completed a Master’s in international human rights at SciencesPo’s Paris School of International Affairs in 2013.