Maxime Faille

Practice Areas

Max Faille is a partner in Gowling WLG’s Vancouver office, practising Indigenous law and constitutional litigation.

Max represents Indigenous governments, businesses and organizations on matters of Aboriginal and treaty rights, First Nation taxation, self-government, governance and Indigenous economic development.

His appellate advocacy includes appearances before the Courts of Appeal of Ontario, Quebec, the NWT, Yukon, Alberta and British Columbia, as well as the Federal Court of Appeal and the SCC. In the SCC, Max has represented several Indigenous communities and organizations, the Assembly of First Nations, and the governments of the NWT, Yukon and Newfoundland & Labrador. He has also acted for the government of Nunavut, the House of Commons and the Senate of Canada in constitutional litigation.

He is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law, where he teaches First Nation Taxation.

He has also been recognized in Chambers Global, Benchmark Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, The Best Lawyers™ in Canada and the Legal 500 Canada. In 2020, Max received the NWT Premier’s Award for Indigenous Partnership.

Career

Years of Call: 2016 - British Columbia

2009 - Northwest Territories

2009 - Yukon

1998 - Ontario