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My practice includes contract disputes, construction law, municipal law, and litigation. I have represented clients before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the Federal Maritime Commission. I was born and raised in Anchorage. Before law school I worked for the Alaska State Legislature.  I earned my law degree at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. I am very active in construction law and the construction community in Alaska.  In 2016 I gave a presentation on insurance to the Annual Alaska Construction Law Seminar.  I have represented owners, contractors, suppliers, bidders, and individuals.  I enjoy any opportunity to help others untangle the legal challenges created within the industry.

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.

Mr. Slottee received his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah in 1998 and graduated cum laude from the Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College in 2001. While at Lewis & Clark, Mr. Slottee served as an editor for Environmental Law Review, Lewis & Clark’s law review focusing on environmental issues. After graduating from law school, Mr. Slottee clerked for the Honorable Rene Gonzalez on the Anchorage Superior Court before joining Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon in 2002.  Mr. Slottee has been admitted to the bar associations of Alaska, Oregon, and Washington and is currently an active member of the Alaska State Bar.  His practice focuses on personal injury and commercial litigation.. Shareholder:. Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon – specializing in personal injury, bad faith, commercial litigation, and health care issues.

I’ve practiced law in Alaska since 1997. I’ve worked in law firms and as in-house counsel for large corporations. I started Vellum LLC in 2011. Why start a new company? Because there’s a much better way to provide legal services to Alaska’s small businesses and nobody else was doing it. So I redesigned the law firm from the ground up so that small businesses like yours can have a legal department like the big guys.

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 was born in Alaska and have been practicing law here since 1976. I am an elected Fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel (), a select group of attorneys who are nationally recognized in the practice of estate planning, probate and trust law. I am also one of only two Alaskans elected as a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel ().. I am active in drafting and promoting legislation to keep Alaska in the forefront of modern developments in estate planning and trust administration law. I was the primary drafter of Alaska’s laws governing modification of irrevocable trusts, the Alaska 529 College Savings plan and pre-mortem trust and will validation. I was also instrumental in drafting the Alaska Limited Liability Company legislation and secured the first IRS private letter ruling on conversion of a partnership into a LLC.  I was intensely involved in the revisions to Alaska Trust Company laws and formed the first Private Trust Company established in Alaska.

After more than a decade in the United States Army I made the decision to leave the military and pursue a new career in the law.  I completed my undergraduate work at the University of Alaska Anchorage and traveled with my wife and two small children to Macon, Georgia.  I graduated cum laude from Merrcer University's Walter F. George School of Law in 1999.. Following my graduation from Mercer, I accepted a position with a top national firm in their Atlanta office, focusing on product liability and complex commercial litigation.  Over the course of five years at this firm I represented pharmaceutical manufacturers, contruction product manufacturers, and commercial enterprises involved in high stakes litigation. I represented these clients from the initial pleadings, through the discovery process, the hearing process, the mediation process, and the trial process.  During this period I learned how to properly evaluate cases and advise clients about the strengths of their case and the risks associated with their litigation.  I learned to handle matters efficiently and to pursue the client's goals by involving the client in each important decision, working with the other attorneys in the case when possible, and ardently and aggressively opposing those attorneys when my clients' needs demanded it.. For the full five years in Atlanta I also volunteered 200-300 hours per year with the Atlanta Family Court as a Guardian Ad Litem, representing the best interests of the child in divorces and other custody disputes.. In 2004 we returned to Alaska, where we had spent significant time over the past  20 years enjoying the outdoors and the smaller community.  I soon was accepted into ownership of one of the oldest firms in the state, focusing my practice on insurance defense work for Alaskans, commercial litigation, and the expansion of my family law practice.  In this practice I have spent much more time working with individuals, rather than large institutional clients and I have found my sensitivity to my clients' needs - expressed and unexpressed - has helped me provide effective and valued service to those individuals who placed their faith in me.

"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.