SEATTLE – Gabriel “Gabe” S. Galanda, an enrolled Round Valley Indian Tribe member, has decided to launch his own law firm. After 10 years of practice with a large Pacific Northwest law firm, he and his colleague Anthony Broadman are forming the law firm of Galanda Broadman, PLLC.
“We are excited to have created an agile and responsive legal team to serve Indian country’s most critical legal needs,” Galanda said. “We are able to provide large-firm quality legal services in an efficient, dynamic format.”
Galanda practiced with Williams Kastner from 2000 – 2010, where he was the youngest lawyer to ever be elected to the firm’s membership and to serve on the firm’s board of directors. His practice focuses on complex, multi-party litigation and crisis management, representing tribal governments and businesses. Gabe is skilled at defending tribes and Indian-owned enterprises from legal attacks by local, state and federal governments, and representing plaintiffs and defendants in catastrophic personal injury lawsuits. He also assists tribes with transactions and strategy related to various economic development initiatives, and works with publicly-traded and other sophisticated companies that do business in Indian country.
Galanda writes prolifically about issues of tribal and gaming litigation and business, having been published more than 70 times in such national periodicals as National Law Journal, Business Law Today, Gaming Law Review and Economics, Indian Gaming magazine and Indian Country Today. He is the past president of the Northwest Indian Bar Association, past chair of the Washington State Bar AssociationIndian Law Section, and the current chair of the American Bar AssociationBusiness Law Section Gaming Law Committee.
He has also been admitted to the International Masters of Gaming Lawyers. He was named to the 40 Under 40 list by both Puget Sound Business Journal and the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development in 2010, and has been named a Leading Edge Litigator, and Rising Star (eight times), by Washington Law & Politics magazine.
Galanda received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arizona College of Law, and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University.
Broadman practiced with Williams Kastner from 2007 – 2010. He worked for Skadden Arps in the summer of 2007. His practice focuses on company-critical business litigation and representing tribal governments in public affairs, gaming, taxation and economic development matters. He was named to Rising Stars for 2010 by Washington Law & Politics magazine. He is also a member of the International Masters of Gaming Lawyers. He is a trustee for the Washington State Bar Association Indian Law Section.
Broadman received his Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Arizona College of Law, and his A.B. degree from Princeton University, cum laude.
Together, Galanda and Broadman have co-authored articles such as “Gaming Transactions in Indian Country: A Rough Guide for Rough Times,” Casino Enterprise Management, April 2010; and “The Law of Business in Indian Country,” Law Trends & News, American Bar Association, winter 2009.
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