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Legal Experience

I am an associate with the law firm of McElroy, Meyer, Walker & Condon, P.C. My practice consists of the representation of Indian tribes and their members in a variety of contexts. I have done extensive work for the Navajo Nation in the general stream adjudications of both the Little Colorado River and the Gila River. These adjudications have involved the determination of both the quantity of tribal water rights as well as the priority of those rights. Representation of the Navajo Nation has also included various aspects of the Navajo-Hopi land disputes.

I have worked extensively with the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians to ensure that the State of Utah and its contractors comply with applicable federal laws in the proposed construction of a water pipeline and the conduct of other activities on and near the Kaibab Reservation. Such federal laws include the National Environmental Policy Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, and others.

I have been substantially involved in the litigation of Indian gaming issues for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan and the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians in Oregon. I also did substantial work for the Sault Tribe on the inland phase of the litigation in United States v. Michigan, which involved the assertion of treaty rights reserved by five Michigan Indian tribes under the Treaty of 1836 in a large portion of Michigan. Additionally, I drafted an administrative code for the Sault Tribe.

Employment History

McElroy, Meyer, Walker & Condon, P.C.
(formerly Greene, Meyer & McElroy, P.C.)
Boulder, CO
October 2004 - present
Associate Attorney

Justice Nancy Rice, Colorado Supreme Court
Denver, CO
September 2003 - September 2004
Judicial Law Clerk

Office of the Attorney General
Denver, CO
May 2002 - November 2002
Legal Intern, Public Officials Unit, State Services Section

Chrisman, Bynum & Johnson, P.C./Faegre & Benson, LLP
Boulder, CO
May 2001 - February 2002
Law Clerk

Education

University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, CO

Juris Doctor, Class of 2003
Class Rank: 2/156 (GPA 3.86)
Honors & Activities:

• Order of the Coif (Dean's List all six semesters)
• Casenote & Comment Editor, University of Colorado Law Review
• Don W. Sears Award for greatest contribution to classroom learning, 2000-2001
• West Group Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, 2001-2002
• Leon & Dora Wolf Scholarship; Moses Lasky Scholarship; Isaacson, Rosenbaum, Woods & Levy, P.C. Scholarship; Bernard J. Seeman Scholarship

Haverford College, Haverford, PA

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Class of 1990

Publications

Another Brick in the Wall: Attorney's Fees for the Civil Rights Litigant After Buckhannon, 11 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y 53 (2004)

Comment, The Shoe Fits and the Lighter Is Out of Gas: The Continuing Utility of International Shoe and the Misuse and Ineffectiveness of Zippo, 74 U. Colo. L. Rev. 319 (2003)

Professional Affiliations

Bar Admission: State of Colorado, 2003; State of Arizona, Apache Superior Court (Pro Hac Vice for Case No. 6417) and Maricopa Superior Court (Pro Hac Vice for Case Nos. W-1, W-2, W-3, W-4), 2008; United States District Court for the Southern District of California (Pro Hac Vice for Case No. 51-1247-SD-GT), 2008

Member of the American, Federal, Colorado, Boulder and Colorado Indian Bar Associations