Renée Pelletier is a partner at OKT whose practice includes work on Aboriginal, treaty rights litigation and specific claims. Renée has litigated judicial review applications and appeared before various levels of courts on motions, trials and appeals. She was cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in the high-profile case R. v. Ipeelee, 2012 SCC 13, and regularly advises and represents her Indigenous clients on consultation matters, regulatory and environmental matters, reserve land management and impacts and benefits agreements. Renée has served on the Independent Federal Environmental Assessment Expert Review Panel and was one of the lead counsel in Canada’s first Aboriginal title to water case. She currently acts as lead counsel on the Wolastoqey Nation’s Aboriginal title claim. A frequent guest lecturer in Aboriginal and Environmental Law, Renée is Adjunct Faculty at the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law, where she teaches Land Claims and Self-Government, and serves as a Program Director for the Osgoode Certificate in Fundamentals of Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Law. In 2024, she received Osgoode Hall Law School’s Alumni Gold Key Award for a Career of Distinction and was named Lawyer of the Year – Aboriginal Law by Best Lawyers in 2026.
