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Tava Burton
Associate • (she/her)
Tava Burton is an associate lawyer with the firm’s Corporate/Commercial group in Regina.
Education & Qualifications
- Saskatchewan Bar (2020)
- JD with distinction (Saskatchewan, 2019)
- Certificate in Common Law in French (Ottawa, 2019)
- BBA with distinction (Regina, 2015)
More about me
Tava maintains a general corporate and commercial law practice, with a focus on commercial lending, mergers and acquisitions. Informed by her in-house experience, she brings practical business solutions to her clients with a measured legal risk analysis.
Tava began her legal career at MLT Aikins in 2019 before accepting an in-house position with Farm Credit Canada, Canada’s major agriculture and agri-food lender.
Tava completed her JD at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law in 2019. She is bilingual in French and holds a certificate in Common Law in French from the University of Ottawa. She graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree majoring in finance from the University of Regina in 2015.
- Présidente, Association des juristes d’expression française de la Saskatchewan (2024-present), Board member (2019-present)
- Chair, Canadian Bar Association Young Lawyers, Saskatchewan South Section (2020-2022)
- Board Member, Saskatchewan Science Centre (2020-2024)
- Volunteer, Saskatchewan Roughriders (2019-present)
- Philip Edward Mackenzie Scholarship (2017)
- Inaugural Michel Bastarache Moot Competition, second place (2018-2019)
- Inaugural Michel Bastarache Moot Competition, Le Prix Bastarache Winner (2018-2019)