Miller Titerle opens in Toronto

Miller Titerle has opened its doors in Toronto, establishing a presence in Ontario.

Julie Abouchar and Carl McKay joined the new office as principal lawyers. Per LinkedIn, both hailed from Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers, where Abouchar was a partner and McKay was an associate.

Abouchar has advised First Nations, Inuit, and Indigenous organizations, businesses, and municipalities across Ontario, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alberta. She is called to the bar in Ontario, Nunavut, New Brunswick, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories.

She has acted for clients in regulatory processes and hearings, environmental assessments, negotiating and drafting resource/community benefit agreements, consultation agreements, and protocols. Recently, she served as legal counsel on negotiating teams putting together community benefit agreements for gold mines in the Timmins, North Bay, Greenstone, and Wawa areas of Northern Ontario.

Abouchar also appeared before the Northwest Territories Supreme Court as counsel to the Inuvialuit Game Council as an intervenor in a judicial review of a minister’s decision about caribou management under the Sahtu Land Claim Agreement, according to Miller Titerle. Moreover, she guided a municipal consortium involved in Indigenous consultation on putting together a collaborative process for archaeology, environment, and traditional knowledge studies for broadband cell tower projects in eastern Ontario.

In March, she served as arbitration counsel in the resolution of a dispute related to contractual provisions associated with the flooding of Reserve lands. Between 2007 and 2014, she was a director at the Ontatio Clean Water Agency.

McKay’s clients have included First Nation governments and Indigenous organizations.

He is called to the bar in Ontario and Nunavut, with a practice focused on business law.

He has helped First Nation governments in Ontario as well as a regional Inuit association in Nunavut to conclude impact benefit agreements. He was also a corporate and commercial lawyer for Torkin Manes and Wilson Vukelich prior to his stint with Willms & Shier.