Drew Lafond

Partner

(he/him)

Saskatoon

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Education & Qualifications

  • Saskatchewan Bar (2019)
  • Alberta Bar (2011)
  • JD (Victoria, 2009)
  • BA with honours (Saskatchewan, 2006)

Services and Industries

Drew provides advice to businesses on corporate structure, finance, governance and cannabis, liquor and gaming licensing. He also has extensive experience advising Indigenous clients on governance and jurisdictional issues.

Drew advises clients on matters related to economic development, gaming, housing, commercial leasing, corporate governance, structure and finance.

Drew also assists Indigenous clients with asserting and exercising jurisdiction over core areas of governance, including land management, taxation, gaming and agriculture in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Yukon.

Drew was raised in Treaty 6 territory on the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation reserve and is also of Secwepemc descent from the Simpcw First Nation in British Columbia.

He has also served as president of the Indigenous Bar Association since 2019.

  • Member, Law Society of Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan, present)
  • President, Indigenous Bar Association (2019-present)
  • Director, Indigenous Bar Association (2009-2019)
  • President, Indigenous Law Students’ Association (Victoria, 2007-2008)
  • Kawaskimhon National Aboriginal Moot (2008)
  • UBC Indigenous Legal Clinic (2009)
  • Recognized as a Top Lawyer, Agribusiness and Cannabis, Lexpert Special Edition (2020)
  • Named a Leading Practitioner, Indigenous, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (2019-present)
  • Rising Star Award, Lexpert (2018)
  • The Honourable Thomas A. Dohm Shield
  • Keith B. Jobson Award
  • Chief Michael A. Underwood Memorial Scholarship
  • James Gosnell AFN Heroes of Our Time Award
  • Canadian Millennium Bursary (2007-2009)