Marie-Eve Dumont

Partner

514-842-0748

Year of call: Quebec Bar, 2012

Marie-Eve Dumont has been with Dionne Schulze since its foundation in 2007. She has worked as a lawyer at the firm since 2012 and as a partner since 2024. Her practice expands across various kinds of cases, notably in specific claims both before the Specific Claims Tribunal and at the ministerial level. She has co-negotiated major specific claim settlements and advises First Nations on setting up trusts to manage the use of settlement funds. She is equally implicated in various class action lawsuits and other litigations relating to constitutional law and Indian status.

Extended Bio

Marie-Eve advises First Nations governments on questions relating to finance, governance, regulation and membership. She has a particular interest in issues relating to governance and has supported non-profit organizations accordingly, notably in the context of their general regulations. She has appeared before the Special Claims Tribunal, the Superior Court, the Federal Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Marie-Eve has represented many residential school survivors from several communities in Quebec in the federal Independent Assessment Process and related class actions. This experience has granted her a thorough and sensitive understanding when it comes to the lived realities of Indigenous community members.

  • LL.B., Université du Québec à Montréal, 2010
  • Bachelor of Arts, International relations and international law, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2006

  • "Projets Autochtones du Québec" (Aboriginal projects of Quebec), member of the Board of Directors

  • Named as one of the “Best Lawyers” practicing Aboriginal law and Administrative and Public Law in Canada by Best Lawyers in Canada® 2026

  • "La Loi sur les Indiens", as part of the course Journalisme et réalités autochtones, Université du Québec à Montréal, November 2022
  • "The Abenaki seigneurial claims", National Claim Research Workshop, Ottawa, October 2022
  • "The Abenaki claims before the Specific Claims Tribunal: challenges", National Claim Research Workshop, Ottawa, November 2021
  • "Les revendications abénakises devant le Tribunal des revendications particulières : objet et défis", Assembly of Chiefs, Assembly of First Nations of Québec and Labrador, Beauport Lake, October 2021
  • Course design for Droit des Autochtones, University of Sherbrooke, Fall 2018
  • "The Atikamekw’s Specific Claims Before the Specific Claims Tribunal", National Claim Research Workshop, Ottawa, October 2017
  • "Aptitudes interculturelles à l’égard d’une clientèle autochtone", dans le cadre du cours Droit des Autochtones, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2017.
  • "Les pensionnats indiens et les mécanismes d’indemnisation des survivants", dans le cadre du cours Droit des Autochtones, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2016.
  • "Formation interculturelle – Aptitudes interculturelles à l’égard d’une clientèle autochtone", McGill University, 2015, co-presented with Nicholas Dodd.
  • "Jurisprudence québécoise et canadienne portant sur le droit international" (2009) 22.2 R.Q.D.I. 311 (with Pierre Bosset and Véronique Talbot)
  • "Jurisprudence québécoise portant sur le droit international" (2004) 17.2 R.Q.D.I. 149 (with Maude Pagé-Arpin and Pierre-Étienne Morand)