Jamie is a creative and skilled legal advisor with experience in a variety of matters impacting Indigenous people, governments, and organizations. He works in close collaboration with First Nations to combine historical analysis with contemporary legal strategies to support recognition and protection of Indigenous and Aboriginal rights and achieving greater self-governance.
As a litigator, Jamie represents clients in a broad scope of litigation, including complex Aboriginal and treaty rights litigation, governance, and property dispute claims. In addition, he has an active specific claims negotiations practice, representing a number of BC First Nations in complex, historical specific claims negotiations with Canada.
Jamie has appeared before the courts in British Columbia and federally, and participates in regulatory and Tribunal proceedings, including the Specific Claims Tribunal, the Canada Energy Regulator, and British Columbia’s Forest Appeals Commission.