Support Staff
 Cinde O’Neil
Telephone: (604) 685-1229
email: cindeo@grantnativelaw.com
Experience
Cinde has extensive experience as a legal secretary/paralegal, with a primary focus on litigation support. She joined the Firm in 1997 and has helped manage and organize complex cases often involving multiple plaintiffs and defendants and thousands of documents.
EDUCATION
Trend College, 1988
Legal Secretary Certificate
Capilano College, 2001
Paralegal Certificate
 Kim Madsen
Telephone: (250) 842-2260 or 1-800-428-5665
email: kimm@grantnativelaw.com
EXPERIENCE
Kim Madsen has worked with the Firm as a legal secretary since 1994. Much of her experience has been in litigation support. She was the coordinating legal secretary on the Blackwater case which involved more than 25 plaintiffs, several defendants, and thousands of documents. She also assisted with the preparation of Delgamuukw when it proceeded to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Kim is a key part of our legal team. She is strongly committed to assisting with aboriginal rights cases seeking beneficial remedies for our clients.
BACKGROUND
Kim is a Gitxsan person and a member of the House of Delgamuukw. She lives near Hazelton in Gitxsan territory in northern British Columbia.
EDUCATION
Capilano College, 1994, Legal Secretary Certificate
 Marjorie White
email: accounts@grantnativelaw.com
Marjorie White started working in the accounting department on a contract basis with Peter Grant & Associates in 1999 and joined the office in 2002. Marjorie oversees all aspects of the accounting for Peter Grant & Associates.
EDUCATION
CGA Course 1991
Capilano College Business Administration Program 1996
CMA Courses 1998
 Darlene Shaw
email: darlenes@grantnativelaw.com
Darlene Shaw has been employed as a legal secretary at Peter Grant & Associates since 2003. Darlene works primarily with Myron Barr and Jeff Huberman.
EDUCATION
Douglas College, 1991, Legal Secretary Certificate
 Chelsey Lee
email: chelseyl@grantnativelaw.com
Chelsey Lee joined Peter Grant & Associates in October, 2006, as an accounting clerk, assisting Marjorie with the day to day tasks in the accounting department.
EDUCATION
Polar Bear, Toronto - MS SQL Server 2000 Administration and Maintenance
Seneca College, Toronto - LAN Networking and Network Administration
Accounting Courses – UFV
 Amy Abrahamson
email: amya@grantnativelaw.com
Amy Abrahamson joined our firm in February, 2007. She works with Allan Early and Brian O’Reilly on our Residential School Claims. She also works with Peter Grant on litigation issues and with respect to his work on the National Administration Committee which is mandated to deal with the Indian Residential School Settlement. She is also the liaison person for Independent Counsel who are a group that works on the Indian Residential School claims.
EDUCATION
Education Capilano College, 2007, Legal Administrative Assistant
Paul Silvey
Articled Student
Background
Paul is a member of the Sechelt Nation and focused his studies on Aboriginal Law following a career in mining in Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories.
Prior to Articling at Peter Grant & Associates, his law school experiences included working for the Nunavut Court of Justice where he performed general clerking duties for the Judges Chambers and participated in an exchange term at Arizona State University College of Law where he studied Federal Indian Law and was a student Attorney in Arizona Tribal Courts through the Indian Legal Clinic.
Education
BA (Native Studies) – University of Alberta, 2004
LLB – University of Victoria, 2008
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