Sean regularly speaks at professional development seminars and recently co-chaired a conference on Consent Agreements under BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

In the Community

Sean is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Canadian Bar Association.

Back to Our People

Sean’s practice includes advocacy, negotiations, and strategic advice to First Nations on their inherent, Aboriginal, and Treaty rights, natural resource management, and relationships between Indigenous and Crown governments..

Sean acted as legal counsel in the first ever implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. As a result, he was part of a team that won the Premier’s Award for promoting innovation and excellence. He negotiated the first agreement under BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People’s Act in which an Indigenous Governing Body shares the powers for statutory decisions with the Crown.

Sean also acts for Environmental Non‑Governmental Organizations, and his advocacy contributed to the development of the precautionary principle in Canadian law.

Outside work hours, Sean is an active skier and hiker. He completed the Bagger Challenge in 2025 by bagging all of the “sane” peaks on Vancouver’s North Shore.

Prior to entering law, Sean was a communications professional who served in a variety of industry and government roles and taught communications at Douglas College and BCIT in Vancouver.