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Aboriginal Law - Representation of Indigenous Peoples - Nationwide - Canada
What the Team is Known For
Strengths
The partners at PST are extremely strong lawyers. They are smart and practical and know their clients and their interests intimately.
As a client, we are often amazed at Pape Salter Teillet's ability to triage complex emergencies and emerging issues for us. They are worth their weight in gold!
PST have an amazing background and understanding of First Nations and Treaty Government rights, laws and history. They are experts in the field.
Their lawyers have always been responsive, even when we understand them to be very busy in active litigation or negotiation sessions.
The PST team is incredibly responsive and provide fulsome and meaningful technical documents and briefings for laypeople.
Work Highlights
Pape Salter Teillet Barristers and Solicitors represented the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun in a lawsuit against the Government of Yukon, challenging its decision to authorise a mining exploration project in the Tsé Tagé watershed.
Notable practitioners
Nuri Frame is the managing partner of Pape Salter Teillet and specialises in Indigenous rights law, with a focus on litigation, dispute resolution, governance and treaty negotiation and implementation.
Nuri knows this area of the law well and understands the political and economic climates that are relevant to the legal advice he provides. His advice is balanced and thoughtful.
Nuri is great.
We are always impressed with Nuri's level of sophistication and due diligence, in addition to being both dependable and flexible with ridiculously tight timelines and unexpected deadlines.