Anchorage Lawyer Joins Landye Bennett Blumstein
Photo Credit: Landye Bennett Blumstein
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.
Current Issue
April 2026
KeyBank Promotes Small Business Relationship Manager for Alaska
KeyBank promoted Garet Plantz to Small Business Relationship Manager for Alaska, providing personalized expertise across deposit, lending, cash management, and merchant processing needs.
Characteristics of Leadership: Rigidity
Throughout 2026, this series on effective leadership interviews knowledgeable Alaskans and shares their methods of aligning values with ethical conduct. This month’s topic: when rigid leaders cause entire organizations to tumble.
Doyon Finds New CEO at YKHC
Dan Winkelman is leaving Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation to take over as President and CEO of Doyon, Limited upon the departure in June of Aaron Schutt.