Tribal governments and those dealing with them require lawyers who understand the special complexities unique to their situation. We have substantial expertise in Indian Law, which ranges from representing Indian tribes in litigation, business, and development matters to assisting non-Indian clients in business dealings with Indian tribes. We also regularly counsel Indian tribes regarding employment matters, including discipline and termination issues, internal investigations, and employment agreements.

We represent The Hopi Tribe, a federally recognized Indian tribe, in connection with real estate and other business matters. The Tribe has been engaged for several years in a program of acquiring private ranches in an area of Arizona the Tribe considers ancestral homeland. In addition, the Tribe is actively engaged in commercial real estate and other business activities aimed at expanding the Tribe's economic base. We also have served as local counsel to the Tribe in federal litigation, including litigation with the Navajo Nation, and have assisted the Tribe in other litigation-related matters.

We have represented the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on a variety of matters, including the landmark litigation between the Community and the State involving the Community's right to engage in gaming. This litigation involved two separate appeals to the Arizona Supreme Court, which affirmed the Community's right to compact with the State for gaming. We also regularly represent the Community in employment and gaming matters, and have assisted in several internal investigations.

We represented the Gila River Community in environmental litigation and in commercial disputes.

We represented Arizonans for Fair Gaming and Indian Self-Reliance (the 17 Tribe Initiative known as Proposition 202). Proposition 202, which the voters enacted into law, helped to ensure the continuation of Indian gaming on reservation lands in Arizona, dedicated substantial revenue to local schools, hospitals, and other state programs, and provided a mechanisms for non-gaming tribes too remote to have their own gaming facilities to benefit from gaming revenues.

Drawing on the Firm's Appellate Practice, we prepared an amicus brief for the Ninth Circuit in connection with litigation intended to preclude the Governor of Arizona from executing further compacts with tribes, and have coordinated amicus efforts among various Arizona tribes in connection with a cases pending before the United State Supreme Court.