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We serve institutional clients in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. We are a professional team with unique work in rights, benefits and impacts from land, water and resource use covering a vast region of the Arctic. We work with Northern Indigenous communities and strive to meet our clients’ needs in a culturally adapted manner.
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We provide legal services in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. Northern Canada is vast sparsely populated Arctic region that is the homeland of several groups of Indigenous peoples. Working there requires collaboration, patience and understanding of local conditions, including awareness of what may, or may not, be present when contrasted with other Canadian jurisdictions.
We focus on practical outcomes to help clients make decisions that balance many competing factors, to account for their legal risks, and to feel confident their approach is taking a path that suits their needs.
McRae Law brings together a capable team of professionals to deliver high quality services tailored to our clients’ specific, and often unique, legal circumstances.
Values: We prioritize our clients’ needs are met on-time with solutions-oriented work products and legal advice.
Team Work: Our relationships ensure we are focused on advancing our clients’ agenda with legal support that helps clients balance opportunities and risk management.
Communication: Effective teamwork involves candid and consistent two-way dialogue so our clients feel confident they are making informed choices and decisions.
Collaboration: We strive to understand our clients and their needs so our legal services add value to their work.
We designed our logo as a monogram incorporating ‘M’ and ‘L’ to represent the initials of McRae Law. Our logo is intended to symbolize a mountain and land/water, prominent features of the places where we work and the issues we work with.
Bruce brings a wide range of cross-cultural legal and non-legal professional experience to everything he does. Bruce is a graduate of the University of Toronto, called to the bar in Nunavut (2015) and the Northwest Territories (2021).
Gabrielle has an astute eye for detail and keen interest in meeting client needs. Gabrielle is a graduate of the University of Toronto, called to the bar in Ontario (2019), Nunavut (2022), and the Northwest Territories (2022).
Johanna oversees financial statements and ensures the team is on budget.
Jamie has deep experience working in boutique firms and supports McRae Law with firm administration, communications, and research.
McRae Law acknowledges that it operates from unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory, and provides legal services in the homelands of Inuit, Dene, and Métis.
Our clients are organizations, Indigenous groups, governments, regulatory bodies, communities and companies working in the North.
We provide legal advice on a range of issues facing our clients, accounting for modern land claims, legislation/regulation and case law. We offer strategic advice on negotiating legislative and regulatory frameworks, litigation, policy development and drafting, as well as implementation of law and policy. Given our experience with Indigenous communities, we routinely advise on issues related to consultation, reconciliation and the emerging area of Indigenous Law.
We pride ourselves on working closely with our clients so we understand their needs and tailor our advice to their circumstances. We focus on collaboration to reach mutually beneficial outcomes for our clients and the parties they’re engaged with. Our understanding of the unique context facing our clients comes from our practical experience living and working in Northern communities, careful study of existing and emerging legal trends, and constant dialogue about the dynamic situations our services have to meet.
Get in touch so we can discuss your needs and see if we can help you. We are not your lawyer until we are retained, so initial communication with us is not privileged and should not include confidential or sensitive information.
An important part of our Canadian identity is acknowledging we are treaty people who share responsibilities towards treaties with the Indigenous people of this land. Each member of the McRae Law team is on their own personal journey of reconciliation.
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