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41st Annual Alaska Native Law Conference


Total Credits: 4.75 including 3.75 General, 1.0 Ethics



Description

41st Annual Alaska Native Law Conference

Co-sponsored with the Alaska Native Law section

Topics include:

  • ​​ Katie John Recap - Whitney Leonard, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller & Monkman, LLP and Erin Dougherty-LynchNative American Rights Fund
  • The Uncertainty of Federal Funding under Current Administration - Gennifer Moreau and Monique Martin, ANTHC and Chris Slottee, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.
  • Tribal Organization Tax Cases - Geoffrey Strommer, Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker, LLP and Richard Monkman, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller &  Monkman, LLP
  • Tribal Education Updates--New Developments in State Compacting - Craig Jacobson, Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker, LLP
  • 50 Years of the Indian Self-Determination Act Rebecca Patterson, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller & Monkman, LLP
  • Federal Law and Policy Update -Jaeleen Kookesh and Lucas Agnew, Van Ness Feldman LLC
  •  Litigation and State Law Update Andy Erickson Landye Bennett Blumstein
  • Ethics in Joint Representation Agreements - Tim Petumenos, Law Office of Tim Petumenos

Handouts

Faculty

Whitney Leonard Related Seminars and Products

Sonosky chambers Sachse Miller and Monkman


Erin Dougherty Lynch Related Seminars and Products

Native American Rights Fund


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 Slottee Related Seminars and Products

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt


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.  


Christ Strommer Related Seminars and Products

Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker LLP


Richards Monkman Related Seminars and Products

Sonosky Chambers Sachse Miller & Monkman



Craig Jacobson Related Seminars and Products

Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker LLP






Timothy Petumenos Related Seminars and Products

Law Office Of Tim Petumenos


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.