Colleen has 26 years of experience with a focus on Aboriginal law and employment, labour and human rights. She has appeared before the following courts and tribunals: Alberta Court of King’s Bench and Alberta Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, Canada Labour Code Adjudications, Federal and Provincial Privacy Tribunals, Alberta Human Rights Tribunal and Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Her experience includes employment agreements, non-competition agreements, injunction applications, Canada Labour Code adjudications, personnel policies, drug and alcohol policies, sexual harassment policies, election codes, membership codes, wrongful dismissal actions, human rights complaints, election disputes, general commercial litigation, privacy policies, judicial reviews, demand letters, trespass by-laws, banishment by-laws, by-laws, negotiations and business immigration. Colleen has experience in forensic litigation, workplace harassment investigations and TLE negotiations on behalf of Indigenous Peoples. Colleen was appointed King’s Counsel in 2020. She was named a leading practitioner for aboriginal law by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and called to the Alberta Bar in 1997 and the Northwest Territories Bar in 2009.
