Anchorage Lawyer Joins Landye Bennett Blumstein
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Landye Bennett Blumstein added River E.M. Sterne to the firm as an Associate Attorney. The new hire further strengthens the firm’s legal services especially Alaska Native law, subsistence and natural resources law, transactional, and litigation practice areas.
Sterne was born and raised in Anchorage and graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School summa cum laude in 2023. As a law student, Sterne served as Submissions Editor of the Lewis & Clark Law Review and Secretary of the Portland National Lawyers Guild chapter.
He also clerked for the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government, worked as a summer associate at Kanji & Katzen in Seattle, and externed for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. Following law school, River clerked for Justice Dario Borghesan on the Alaska Supreme Court.
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