RYAN LAKE

Ryan Lake is a Partner at Maurice Law with extensive experience as an advocate and advisor. His practice is focused on litigation and negotiations related to Aboriginal and Treaty rights, including the duty to consult and accommodate. He also has a longstanding commitment to providing professional legal services to the Indigenous peoples of Canada respecting their administrative responsibilities and the organization and development of commercial transactions with industry proponents. With 15 years of experience as legal counsel specializing in the negotiation of Specific Claims and Aboriginal and Treaty rights litigation, he has an impressive list of proven results for his clients which have resulted in the awards of compensation as well as settlements, and establishment of various Legacy Trusts and Sovereign Wealth Funds. A full list of Ryan’s representative work can be viewed below.

As a law student, Ryan interned at the federal Department of Justice and with the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel to the Senate in Ottawa. Ryan commenced his legal career with a firm recognized for its expertise in maritime, aviation, and transportation law, where he provided services to Canadian and international clients. Ryan continued to practice in the areas of commercial and insurance litigation and class actions litigation in Toronto until joining Maurice Law in 2014.

Ryan has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Courts of King’s Bench of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, the Courts of Appeal of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the Federal Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal, the Specific Claims Tribunal, and federal and provincial human rights tribunals. He has participated as counsel on complex dispositive and interlocutory motions, applications, trials, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) proceedings.