Three Hughes White Attorneys Included in This Year’s Alaska Super Lawyers List
Super Lawyers has selected three attorneys from Hughes White Colbo Wilcox & Tervooren, LLC to the 2019 Alaska Super Lawyers list.
Tag: Legal
Stoel Rives Offers New Paid Leave Program to All Staff
Stoel Rives LLP has launched a new firm-wide paid leave program for all staff members in its 10 offices across seven states and Washington, DC
Dunleavy Names Office of Public Advocacy Attorney Acting Public Defender
Alaska Governor Michael J. Dunleavy accepted the resignation of Public Defender Quinlan Steiner effective immediately and named Beth Goldstein of Anchorage as Acting Public Defender.
Attorney General Announces New Deputy AG and Criminal Division Director
Attorney General Kevin G. Clarkson reluctantly accepted the resignation of Deputy Attorney General Robert Henderson, who is taking a job with the University to devote more time to his family.
Governor Dunleavy Announces Four New Judges
Governor Michael Dunleavy today announced his selections to fill Alaska Superior and District Court judgeships in Utqiagvik, Kodiak, Anchorage, and Palmer.
Alaska Native Corporation GC Christopher Slottee Joins Holland & Knight’s Anchorage Office
Christopher J. Slottee, the former vice president and general counsel of Old Harbor Native Corporation, an Alaska Native Village Corporation, has joined Holland & Knight’s West Coast Litigation Group as a senior counsel in the firm’s Anchorage, Alaska, office.
Dunleavy Legally Obligated to Accept Medicaid Expansion Funds
Representatives Tiffany Zulkosky (D-Bethel), Zack Fields (D-Anchorage), and Ivy Spohnholz (D-Anchorage) released a memorandum from the non-partisan Division of Legal and Research Services confirming that the Governor of Alaska is legally obligated to accept federal funding to cover the Medicaid expansion population in Alaska.
Landye Bennett Blumstein Names Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley New Partner
The law firm of Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP announced that Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley became a partner in the firm, effective January 1, 2019. Saagulik is Iñupiaq, a tribal citizen of the Native Village of Kotzebue, and is based at the firm’s Anchorage office.
Electronic Health Records Improve One Step at a Time
It’s ironic that “on paper,” the idea of electronic health records (EHRs), which provide an easy way for physicians, hospital systems, and patients to keep track of a person’s medical history, makes a lot of sense.