Practice Areas
Administrative
- Professional licensing defense and appeals
- Property tax appeals
- State agency permitting appeals
Alaska Native
- ANCSA
- Subsistence rights
- Land management
- Natural resources development
- Native Corporation governance
Commercial Litigation
- Defense and prosecution of breach of contract and business tort claims
- Partnership, LLC and close corporation shareholder disputes and governance
- Insurance coverage, including property and casualty coverage and bad faith
Construction
- Contract review and preparation
- Defense of owner from contractor claims
- Prosecution of owner claims against contractors, architects and engineers
- Pursuit of contractor and subcontractor claims
- Payment, performance and license bond claims
- Surety defense
- Construction defect coverage
- Lien preparation and enforcement
- Bid protests
Corporate and Business
- Commercial transactions
- Entity formation
- Corporate governance
Election and Campaign finance
Eminent Domain
- Defense of landowners in condemnation cases
- Pursuit and defense of inverse condemnation claims
- Municipal right-of-way acquisitions
Labor and Employment
- Employer defense (ADA, FMLA, FLSA, Little-Davis Bacon Act)
- Public employment benefits (PERS)
- Management-labor negotiations
- Employee disciplinary actions
- Employee Drug testing
Land Use
- Real estate transactions
- Environmental law and permitting
- Planning and zoning
- Commercial leases
Municipal
- Municipal governance
- Elections
- Human Resources
- Public construction projects
- Land use and zoning
- Municipal taxation
- Annexation
- Code drafting
Natural Resources
- Surface use and access agreements
- Oil field services contracting