Erin Dougherty Lynch is a staff attorney based in the Anchorage office.  At NARF, Erin works on a variety of federal Indian law issues, including child welfare, subsistence hunting and fishing rights, voting rights, tribal jurisdiction and sovereignty, and issues related to the relocation of coastal villages threatened by erosion and other problems associated with climate change.  She is heavily involved in issues related to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) on both the state and national level, and she successfully argued Simmonds v. Parks in the Alaska Supreme Court.  

Erin graduated from Willamette University where she was a double major in Politics and History, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a Truman Scholar. Prior to law school Erin was a Fulbright Scholar based at the University of Tromsø in Tromsø (Romsa), Norway where she conducted masters-level research on Sámi political mobilization and indigenous self-governance within international and Norwegian legal frameworks.  She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2008. 
 

Christopher J. Slottee is the Vice-President/General Counsel for Old Harbor Native Corporation. Mr. Slottee is a licensed attorney in the State of Alaska and provides legal services to Old Harbor Native Corporation and its subsidiaries, including supervising outside counsel and risk management.  Mr. Slottee began as General Counsel for Old Harbor Native Corporation in June of 2015. Prior to becoming General Counsel, Mr. Slottee represented Old Harbor Native Corporation in a variety of litigation and other legal matters as outside counsel, successfully resolving several lawsuits on the company’s behalf. As outside counsel, Mr. Slottee was a partner at the law firm of Atkinson Conway & Gagnon, in Anchorage, Alaska.  

Tim Petumenos graduated from Tufts University in 1973 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1976.  Mr. Petumenos has been involved in some of the more celebrated Alaska trials in the course of his career including the Senator George Hohman bribery cases, the McKay murder trials and was lead counsel in the state trial of the Exxon Valdez Oil spill.  His practice also focused on ethics related issues.  Mr. Petumenos served on Disciplinary Hearing Committees for the Bar and was appointed as Special Counsel in connection with gubernatorial ethics complaints during the Palin administration.  Mr. Petumenos litigated numerous legal malpractice cases and has been qualified as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases.  He is a certified teacher with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and has taught trial advocacy on numerous occasions for the Alaska Bar Association, at the Northwest Regional Session of NITA and for prosecutorial agencies. Mr. Petumenos intends to devote much of his future practice to presiding over complex binding arbitrations.