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Ms. Garrett focuses her practice primarily on transactional matters, specifically real estate finance, corporate governance, and commercial transactions and has represented banks, auto finance companies, and corporations in commercial lending matters. Other representative transactions include the purchases and sales of commercial buildings. She has also represented several businesses in stock and asset sales, including the management of all due diligence efforts, the review of all contracts, and the preparation of all closing documents. She has advised large corporations in the areas of regulatory compliance, collections, and bankruptcy.

Mr. Zahare is a life-long Alaskan and has been practicing in Anchorage for over 30 years. His practice focus is personal injury, professional liability, and business litigation. He also provides business advice and transactional services to clients throughout Alaska.  Mr. Zahare has achieved the AV Preeminent Rating, the highest possible rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Maribeth Conway represents clients in all types of estate planning matters, ranging from simple wills to complex irrevocable and dynastic trusts; in probate, conservatorship, guardianship and trust matters; with charitable planning and business affairs.  Ms. Conway offers her clients an innovative and sophisticated estate planning practice. Her practice emphasizes basic estate planning, probate and trust administration, tax planning, business formation and succession planning.  She has more than twenty years of special expertise in estate, gift and fiduciary tax matters, fiduciary representation, and planning for incapacitated adults and developmentally disabled family members.. Maribeth was born and raised in Anchorage and is a fourth generation Alaskan. She is also a documented direct lineal descendent of a patriot of the American Revolution and member the Daughters of the American Revolution.  Together with her husband and son, she makes her home in Anchorage and is active in cross-country skiing and hiking in her “spare time.”

I’m a lifelong resident of Alaska. I love Alaska and I’ve enjoyed practicing law in the areas of business and commercial law, corporate law, real estate law and wills, trusts, estate planning and probate law.  I’ve worked extensively with the business community and other residents of Anchorage, and with clients throughout Alaska, since 1978.  I’ve assisted my clients with their corporations and LLCs, with their contracts, with their real estate deals and leases, and with sales and purchase of nearly every kind of business.  I estimate that in my career I have represented buyers and sellers of businesses in over $200 million worth of business sales. I’ve also assisted clients with commercial litigation involving contracts and corporations, real estate deals, titles and foreclosures, and litigation involving trusts and estates. I feel that my work in all of these areas of the law has given me a well-rounded understanding of the legal issues faced by the business community, real estate owners, and those in need of planning their wills and trusts and assistance in settling estates.

I helped people navigate some of the hardest moments of their lives: divorce, custody, property and debt division, and more. Little did I know that some of the hardest moments of my life would include losing my parents within four months of each other.. Although we knew what my parents’ wishes were after they passed away, neither of them planned their end-of-life-care or signed something as simple as a HIPAA release or living Will (also known as an advance healthcare directive). As a result, we never knew what their final healthcare wishes were for the time preceding their deaths.. My mom, suffering from terminal brain cancer, was forced to pass away on someone else’s terms. She lay on her deathbed for 12 days without food, hydration, or pain medication. Since there was nothing in writing regarding her last wishes, my sister was able to prevent me from participating in my mother’s end-of-life decision-making process, talking to her physicians, or securing her pain medication.. To this day, a rift exists in my family because of that.  Because of the need to prevent family fueds I changed my practice to Estate Planning, Wills, and Trusts.

I graduated from Berkeley Law in 2001 and then moved to Alaska to clerk for the Alaska Supreme Court. I owned a law firm for 13 years, where I practiced primarily immigration law. In 2018, I began working at Shaftel Delman, LLC, where I continued my immigration practice and also practiced estate planning, business law, and probate/trust administration. I joined Durrell Law Group in April 2020, where I continue to practice in these areas of law.. On a personal note, I am married and have two school-aged children. As a family we enjoy getting into the outdoors skiing, camping, hiking, and mountain biking. I had never been to Alaska before 2001 and had not planned on staying beyond my one year clerkship. But I fell in love with Alaska and now consider it home.

"Trust" and "my attorney" belong in the same sentence.  For 35 years, I have worked diligently to earn the trust of my clients, in-house counsel, national firms seeking Alaska counsel, judges, and opposing counsel.  Trust that I will treat your legal needs as of paramount importance and take your cause personally whether you are a Fortune 100 corporation, a powerhouse national law firm, a local Alaska business, or an individual facing legal issues and needing professional guidance to run the gauntlet.  Trust that I will deliver the best service I am capable of, in a cost-effective manner, spending your money as I would want others to spend mine - prudently.  Trust that I know what I am doing (if not, I will tell you who in town practices in an area where I do not).. I have had the privilege to defend complex, bet-the-farm catastrophic injury and wrongful death product liability matters for automobile manufacturers, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, recreational vehicle manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, and others.  I have over three decades of broad experience in complex eminent domain and condemnation actions on behalf of landowners.  I have an active practice involving those fields as well as environmental litigation, personal injury litigation (defense), real estate transactions and litigation, and a host of others.. Beyond technical proficiency, I appreciate the need to understand what matters most to my clients, to know that you cannot get the right answer until you figure out what the question is, to have peripheral vision and your radar looking everywhere for creative solutions, and to not be afraid to hear clients, opposing counsel, or judges remark "I've never seen anyone do it that way before" (I get those comments).. I understand the importance of putting myself out of business as quickly as possible, consistent with getting good results, but also being ready, willing and able to try cases to verdict when necessary.  I love what I do and I think it shows.