Galanda Broadman Litigation Associate Positions (2) Announcement

Galanda Broadman, PLLC, an Indigenous rights firm with nine lawyers and offices in Seattle and Yakima, Washington, and Bend, Oregon, seeks to add two experienced litigation associates to its growing practice in the firm’s Seattle office.

Galanda Broadman is an Indigenous owned firm dedicated to advancing tribal and tribal citizen legal rights and tribal business interests.  The firm represents tribal governments, businesses, and citizens in critical litigation, business and regulatory matters, especially in the areas of Treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, land rights, cultural property protection, taxation, commerce, gaming, serious/catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, disenrollment defense, and Indigenous human/civil rights.

The firm seeks lawyers who are deeply committed to representing Indigenous interests, who is state bar licensed, preferably in Washington State; and who have civil litigation or a judicial clerk experience.  A senior litigation associate should have at least five years of experience.  An associate should have at two to five years of experience.

Proven motion and civil rules practice, if not trial, experience, and the ability to self-direct are critical. Impeccable writing and research skills; critical and audacious thinking; strong oral advocacy; tremendous work ethic; tenacity; and sound ethics are required. 

Salary DOE.   

Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter tailored to this announcement, as well as a résumé, writing sample, transcript, and list of at least three educational and professional references, to Alice Hall, the firm’s Office Manager, at alice@galandabroadman.com. 

Applications directed elsewhere will not be considered.

For more information about Galanda Broadman, visit galandabroadman.com.

Gabe Galanda To Teach "Summer School" Alongside CRT Pioneers

Gabe Galanda joins Kimberlé Crenshaw, Rob Williams, and other Critical Race Theory pioneers for the Teaching Truth to Power: Critical Race Theory Summer School, which is taking place online July 18-22.

Crenshaw's African American Policy Forum is hosting its third Critical Race Theory Summer School and for the first time will have a full week of classes focused on Indigenous peoples' issues and the intersections with Critical Race Theory and Practice. 

Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar on civil rights, Critical Race Theory, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. In addition to her position at Columbia Law School, she is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Williams is also a pioneering scholar on Critical Race Theory, particularly its intersection with federal Indian law. He organized the “Indigeneity & Decolonization” channel at Crenshaw’s request, and invited Gabe to participate.

Gabe will speak Thursday:

Thursday, July 21: Gabe Galanda, "Tribal Neocolonialism: Disenrollment, Enrollment Moratoria & Per-Capitalism": This class will explore modern tribal identity crises, not notably the disenrollment “epidemic” and its imperialist causes and the potential cures available through renewed Indigenous kinship traditions. The class will examine the history of the colonial and federal laws and systems that define Indigenous peoples and “who belongs” to an Indian tribe, as well as the neo-colonial deployment of disenrollment and enrollment moratoria by contemporary tribal politicians and the challenges and opportunities at the intersections of traditional Indigenous knowledge, federal Indian and tribal law, and international human rights law.

Law-related CLE reading: Gabe Galanda, “Curing the Tribal Disenrollment Epidemic: In Search of a Remedy,” 57 Ariz. Law Rev. 383 (2015), and “Tribal nationhood requires citizen civil rights protection,” available at: https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/tribal-nationhood-requires-citizen-civil-rights-protection.

Scholarships are available to attend and CLE is available for some of the sessions.  To register and learn more visit: https://web.cvent.com/event/cee3600f-6c48-4b56-9767-0a468698db14/summary