4505 Canterra Tower
400 - 3rd Avenue S.W.
Calgary AB T2P 4H2

Direct Phone: 403.693.4305
Fax: 403.508.4349
Email: hspicer@mlt.com

Civil Litigation
Insurance Law

Heather Spicer joined MLT Calgary from a firm in North Vancouver where she practised primarily First Nations Law and Civil Litigation. Heather has researched a wide range of legal issues affecting First Nations including First Nations rights, title, the duty to consult, leases, environmental issues, fishing, water rights, reserve land and status. She has also worked in the areas of family law, wills and estates, trusts, contracts, land titles, and civil procedure in the First Nations context and more generally.

Heather has appeared before the British Columbia Provincial Court and Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Canada, and the British Columbia Environmental Appeals Board.

Prior to embarking on her career in the law, Heather directed the operations of a post-secondary funding program for First Nations students in programs in Canada and abroad. She also worked as an education counselor for the Whitefish Lake First Nation in Alberta. Heather has been a long-time volunteer with the Girl Guides of Canada and the YMCA.

• Admitted to the Alberta Bar
• LL.B. (Alberta, 2002)
• B.A. (Distinction, Native Studies, Alberta, 1997)
• Visiting Student in Native Studies (Trent University, 1995-1996)

• Crescent Heights Community Association - Volunteer
• Girl Guides of Canada - Volunteer
• Whitefish Lake First Nation, Alberta - Education Couselor

• "The Authority of First Nations to Grant Enforceable Rights to Possession of On-reserve Housing". Co-written and presented at the Aboriginal Housing Forum (Calgary: March 2007)
• "Beyond Mikisew: More Questions than Answers". Co-written and presented at the PBLI Aboriginal Law Conference (March 2006)