Mark G. Carter joined DuMoulin Boskovich LLP in 2021.  Prior to entering the legal profession, he worked for nine years as a private investigator, conducting investigations on behalf of individuals, companies, and institutions. He was among the first contingent to graduate law school at the University of Toronto with a Certificate in Aboriginal Legal Studies. He is a former Senior Editor and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Aboriginal Law Journal (now the Indigenous Law Journal) – Canada’s only law journal dedicated exclusively to Indigenous legal issues.
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Mark began his legal career in the areas of insurance law, personal injury law, and commercial litigation. He now focuses his practice on Canadian law for Indigenous peoples (Aboriginal law) and Indigenous legal orders (Indigenous law), especially in the revitalization of Indigenous law and writing law and policy on behalf of First Nations governments.

Mark has represented clients at all levels of court in British Columbia (Provincial Court, Supreme Court, and Court of Appeal), as well as before Administrative Tribunals, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, and the Court of King’s Bench in Saskatchewan. He now mostly appears in Court and in Circles on child protection matters on behalf of First Nations governments and individuals.

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Education

• Undergraduate Degree: Criminology, Simon Fraser University, 2008
  
• Master’s Degree: Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto, 2013
• Law Degree: Juris Doctor, University of Toronto, 2013
• Year called to the Bar: British Columbia, 2014
• Certificate in Aboriginal Legal Studies: University of Toronto, 2013

Areas of Practice

• Indigenous law
• Personal injury and insurance law
• Wills and estates