Harley Schachter

About Harley

Harley Schachter is a founding partner of Duboff Edwards Schachter Law Corporation, with a practice spanning litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including Aboriginal law, constitutional law, insurance law, and civil litigation. He has practised for close to 30 years, appearing in superior courts across Manitoba, Ontario, and British Columbia, as well as the Federal Courts and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has represented Aboriginal groups in precedent-setting Aboriginal and treaty rights cases, negotiated large out-of-court settlements including major Hydro settlements, and helped develop the dispute resolution model underlying the Indian Residential School Independent Assessment Process. Harley graduated from Robson Hall in 1983, was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1984 and the British Columbia Bar in 1999, and serves clients from the firm's Winnipeg and Vancouver offices. He is a past two-term chair of the Aboriginal law subsection of the Manitoba Bar Association and has taught Aboriginal law at the University of Winnipeg.

Practice areas

Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution Insurance Law Indigenous Law

Education & credentials

Law school

University of Manitoba's Robson Hall Law School