Top best Native Peoples Law Lawyers in ZIP 98115 | 6 available

Joe Sexton is a Partner with Galanda Broadman, PLLC. Joe focuses on tribal sovereignty issues, working primarily on environmental and cultural resources matters, advocating for enrolled members in disenrollment defense and civil rights plaintiff cases, economic development for tribal governments and individuals, and complex Indian Country litigation. Joe has also successfully represented individual tribal members in catastrophic injury cases, securing favorable settlements. Before joining Galanda Broadman, Joe worked in-house for a tribal government. While working in-house, Joe developed and enhanced tribal government programs, including a motor vehicle registration program. He also negotiated the purchase of tribal lands, and successfully fought in courts and administrative forums to protect his client’s tribal sovereignty, the indigenous and human rights of his client’s constituents, and his client’s threatened cultural resources. His experiences before practicing law—including service in the United States Marine Corps and working as an intern in Bosnia and Herzegovina— equipped Joe to thrive in diverse communities, work efficiently and effectively under pressure, and relentlessly pursue his clients’ objectives.. After law school, Joe worked for Williams Kastner, a medium-sized Seattle law firm, where he represented businesses and individuals before federal and state courts, often-times securing summary judgment rulings in his clients’ favor and achieving favorable settlement results at mediation.

Gabe is the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman. His practice focuses on complex, multi-party litigation and crisis management, representing tribal governments, businesses and citizens. He is skilled at defending tribal parties against legal attack by governmental or private parties; advocating for tribal members in disenrollment and other civil rights defense; and representing tribal plaintiffs and defendants in catastrophic personal injury lawsuits. He also assists tribes with transactions and strategy related to various economic diversification has been named to Best Lawyers in America in the field of Native American Law from 2007 to 2018, and dubbed a Super Lawyer by his peers from 2013 to 2018.

Corin is an Associate in the Seattle office. His practice focuses on litigation involving tribal governments and enterprises, and Indian civil rights.. Corin recently moved from Portland, Oregon, where he worked in civil litigation. His prior practice focused on personal injury, contract, and insurance law.. During his time in Oregon, Corin worked with the multiple non-profits focused on improving the lives of urban Native Americans.. Corin is a Koyukon Athabaskan descendant whose family hails from Nulato, Alaska.

Bree is an Associate in the Seattle office. Her practice focuses on federal court and tribal court litigation involving tribal governments, enterprises and businesses.. Bree recently completed a clerkship with Judge Brian M. Morris in the United States District Court for the District of Montana Great Falls Division, which has civil and criminal jurisdiction over several Indian reservations. She regularly encountered federal procedural and jurisdictional issues involving tribal parties, including tribal sovereign immunity and tribal court jurisdiction.. Prior to her federal court clerkship, Bree served as a youth advocate and case manager at the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation’s Labateyah Youth Home in Seattle, where she advanced the interests of formerly homeless young adults.. Bree is an enrolled member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; her Indian name is “Prized Woman.”. Bree likes to powwow dance, hunt, and hike in her free time. She also enjoys traveling with her parents, acclaimed artists Catherine Black Horse and Terrance Guardipee to Native American art shows across the country. Bree was born and raised in the Seattle area.

Amber Penn-Roco is an Associate in the Seattle office of Galanda Broadman, PLLC. Amber’s practice focuses tribal sovereignty issues, including environmental issues, economic development, and complex Indian Country litigation. Her experience also includes work on transactional matters, including entity formation, environmental compliance and permitting. Amber's practice involves work with a number of enviornmental statutes, including the Clean Water Act, the Comprehensive Enviironmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Washington's Model Toxics Control Act, and the Endangered Species Act.. Amber has worked in the Native American Unit of the Northwest Justice Project, working to further tribal interests and to provide access to justice to low-income tribal populations. At her former firm, K&L Gates, Amber represented the Duwamish Tribe, pro bono, in its efforts to seek federal recognition.. Amber is an enrolled member of the Chehalis Tribe.

A founding Partner of Galanda Broadman PLLC, whose practice focuses on representing tribal governments in corporate, public affairs, and economic development matters, along with tribe and company-critical business litigation, Anthony regularly consults with businesses and tribal governments regarding taxation, crisis response, risk management, and legislative strategy.  He has also defended businesses and gobernments in catastrophic injury lawsuits and claims.. From 2007 to 2010 he practiced at Wililams Kastner as an associate in the Tribal Practice and Business Litigation goups. He has appeared before Washington and Oregon state trial courts, federal district courts and tribal, state and federal administrative bodies. Anthony has a diverse trial and litigation experience, ranging from arguing and obtaining an injuction against the US Dept of Agriculture in federal court, serving successfully as lead trial counsel for a major coproration in a Washington business dispute, to his jury trial defense of a public employer at the state trial court level.. Anthony previously served as Chair of the Washington State Bar Association Administrative Law Section. Editor of the Washington State Bar Association Indian Law Newsletter, puplished by the Indian Law Section.. Names as a Rising Star by Washington Law & Politics magazine in 2010, 2013 and 2014.