Lawyer Cherie Brant to Receive Lexpert Zenith Award
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Dickinson Wright LLP, Canada’s leading full-service business law firm specializing in cross-border counsel, is pleased to announce that Lawyer Cherie Brant has been honored with a Lexpert Zenith Award.
Ms. Brant is a Partner in Dickinson Wright’s Toronto office. She has a commercial real estate, renewable energy and Indigenous law practice. Ms. Brant provides strategic counsel to several First Nations and industry clients seeking to develop projects with First Nations and to understand and address Indigenous rights and interests. As a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and with family from Wikwemikong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ms. Brant brings a profound understanding of the opportunities and challenges that both Indigenous people and industry proponents face in carrying out resource, infrastructure and economic development in Canada. She is recognized for her work as one of Lexpert’s Leading Lawyers for Aboriginal Law and Energy Law. She is a member of the Ontario Bar Association and the Law Society of Upper Canada. Ms. Brant received her B.A. from the University of Waterloo and her J.D. from the University of Toronto.
The Lexpert Zenith Award honors lawyers who have advanced the role of women in the profession and society. Honorees may be drawn from law firms, corporate legal and government departments, academia, the judiciary and alternative legal careers relating to law. The honorees will be celebrated at the Lexpert Zenith Awards on June 22nd.
To learn more about the Lexpert Zenith Awards, please click here.
Ms. Brant is a Partner in Dickinson Wright’s Toronto office. She has a commercial real estate, renewable energy and Indigenous law practice. Ms. Brant provides strategic counsel to several First Nations and industry clients seeking to develop projects with First Nations and to understand and address Indigenous rights and interests. As a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and with family from Wikwemikong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ms. Brant brings a profound understanding of the opportunities and challenges that both Indigenous people and industry proponents face in carrying out resource, infrastructure and economic development in Canada. She is recognized for her work as one of Lexpert’s Leading Lawyers for Aboriginal Law and Energy Law. She is a member of the Ontario Bar Association and the Law Society of Upper Canada. Ms. Brant received her B.A. from the University of Waterloo and her J.D. from the University of Toronto.
The Lexpert Zenith Award honors lawyers who have advanced the role of women in the profession and society. Honorees may be drawn from law firms, corporate legal and government departments, academia, the judiciary and alternative legal careers relating to law. The honorees will be celebrated at the Lexpert Zenith Awards on June 22nd.
To learn more about the Lexpert Zenith Awards, please click here.
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