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EXPERIENCE

We have extensive experience providing wide ranges of legal services for tribal governments, businesses, organizations, and operations. This includes litigation at all levels of federal, state, and tribal courts, as well as work on economic development, land, resource management, compliance, governmental, and intergovernmental matters.

Lands, Resources, and Development

Over 60,000 acres of federal trust-land acquisitions for tribes

Casino and other development financing, leasing, and land assignments

Development of natural resource and environmental regulations

NEPA and CWA compliance for 1600-acre master planned community

NEPA, CEQA, and CWA compliance, cooperative agreement negotiation, compensatory wetland establishment, and construction dispute mediation for hotel and commercial marina development

Intergovernmental Matters

Intergovernmental agreement and legal opinions on jurisdiction, sovereign immunity, Non-Intercourse Act, and title issues for a federal/state loan to purchase over 22,000 acres of land for sustainable forestry, watershed restoration, nonpoint source pollution management, and carbon sequestration

Negotiation of numerous intergovernmental agreements, including for marijuana regulation, CERCLA response action coordination, and keeping tribal bison on a federal wildlife preserve

Negotiation of tribal/state hunting and fishing agreements

Federal, state, and local lobbying

Litigation

Commercial and governmental litigation at all levels of federal, tribal, and state courts, as well as administrative courts

State supreme court decision precluding state jurisdiction over tribal casino tort claims

Extensive breach-of-trust litigation against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims, resulting in over $600 million for tribes

Tribal representation in local land use proceedings and federal court to challenge LNG pipeline and export facility.

Litigation to stop development of offshore wind energy facilities to ensure protection of Tribal cultural resources and fisheries.

Litigation of FOIA claim and federal/tribal/state gaming revenue dispute

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