Matthew Kirchner practices law with the firm of Ratcliff and Company LLP in North Vancouver. His main area of practice is aboriginal litigation, including matters concerning aboriginal rights and aboriginal title as well as general litigation for First Nations. He was recently counsel for the Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band in the first comprehensive civil action seeking declarations of aboriginal fishing rights and is counsel for a group of Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations in an ongoing fishing rights and title case in the BC Supreme Court. Mr. Kirchner has appeared in all levels of court in British Columbia, in the Alberta Court of Queens Bench, in all levels of Federal Courts, and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Kirchner is counsel for the intervener Cowichan Tribes in R. v. Kapp which will heard by the Supreme Court of Canada in December 2007.