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Gabriel S. Galanda

Seattle, WA

Gabe is an Indigenous rights attorney and the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman. His practice focuses on complex, multi-party litigation and crisis management, representing Indigenous nations, businesses and citizens. He has been named to Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Native American Law and Gaming Law from 2007 to 2026, and dubbed a Super Lawyer by his peers from 2013 to 2025. Gabe is skilled at defending Indigenous nations and business against legal attack by governmental or private parties, as well advocating for the human rights of Indigenous American citizens. He advocates against tribal disenrollment and citizenship rights violations, as well as other domestic Indigenous human rights abuse, including law enforcement violence. He also assists Indigenous clients with transactions and strategy related to various economic diversification initiatives. The American Bar Association awarded Gabe the Spirit of Excellence Award in 2022 and named him a Difference Maker in 2012. The Washington State Bar Association honored him with the Excellence in Diversity Award for his "significant contribution to diversity in the legal profession" in 2014. For his staunch disenrollment advocacy, the University Arizona College of Law awarded him the Professional Achievement Award, and Western Washington University named him a Distinguished Alumnus, in 2018. The University Arizona College of Law also named Gabe its 2022-23 Alumnus of the Year. Indian Country Today honored Gabe as one of “five people are rocking the world with their forward thinking, innovation and commitment to social justice” in 2013, and as one of "Fifty Faces of Indian Country" in 2017. In 2009, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development honored him as Native American 40 Under 40. He has also received the Native Justice Award from the Northwest Indian Bar Association. Gabe writes frequently about Tribal Treaty and sovereignty rights and Indigenous human rights issues, having been published over 100 times in such other national periodicals as National Law Journal, Business Law Today, and Gaming Law Review & Economics. Most notably, he co-authored a law review article titled, “Curing the Tribal Disenrollment Epidemic: In Search of a Remedy,” which published by Arizona Law Review in 2015. He also often lectures about Indigenous human rights issues at universities and law schools, having talked at Harvard University and Yale, Cornell, Berkeley, Arizona, and Kansas law schools. Since 2023, Gabe has published a series of scholarly essays about existential challenges facing Indigenous peoples: In the Spirit of Vine Deloria, Jr.: Indigenous Kinship Renewal and Relational Sovereignty; The Federal Indian Blood Quantum Fiction; Durability and Duress: Inter-Tribal Kinship and Indian Gaming Capitalism; Into The Void: Indigenous American Civil Rights; The Original Peoples Deserve Freedom. His anti-disenrollment advocacy and scholarship have been included in several books, including David and Shelly Wilkinses’ “Dismembered” (2017); David Treuer’s “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee” (2019); Carrie Schuettpelz’s “The Indian Card” (2024); and Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "Who Gets to Be Indian?” and Joseph Lee’s “Nothing More of this Land” (2025). Gabe is a frequent media commentator as well, having been interviewed and quoted by mainstream and international news outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Guardian, and Le Monde. In his "spare" time, Gabe founded and now operates Huy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing religious, cultural and other rehabilitative opportunities for Indigenous prisoners. Serving as Chairman of the Huy Board of Advisors, he has lead the organization’s amicus curiae efforts before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts across the country as well as the group’s human rights advocacy efforts before the United Nations. Gabe belongs to the Round Valley Indian Tribes of California, descending from the Nomlaki and Concow Peoples.

Paul McGivern, Q.C.

Toronto, ON

Paul McGivern, Q.C., a senior litigator and founding member of the Birth Injury Lawyers Alliance, specializes in plaintiff’s medical negligence and infant birth trauma cases in British Columbia, with 35 years of experience. His unique background includes 17 years as a medical malpractice defense counsel. Paul is consistently recognized as a leader in medical malpractice litigation by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and Best Lawyers in Canada, where he was named Vancouver’s 'Lawyer of the Year' multiple times. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia and actively involved with the Cerebral Palsy Association of B.C.

Michael J. Sipos

Mr. Sipos has been living in the Federated States of Micronesia practicing law and raising a family for the past 26 years. Michael started his career in 1990 as a California trial attorney and product liability specialist at a large Los Angeles area law firm. He came to Pohnpei in 1998 on a planned one-year leave of absence from the U.S. to serve as the FSM Supreme Court's General Counsel. Mr. Sipos stayed on at the Court for three years, however, before making a permanent move to Micronesia re-entering private practice in 2001 and establishing his own law firm.

Clark (Chip) R. Horner

Portland, OR

Chip Horner’s law practice focuses on defending medical negligence lawsuits, including high exposure birth trauma claims, ophthalmology, autism, failure to diagnose cancer, wrongful death and surgical matters. He is experienced in all aspects of health law. Chip’s clients range from large integrated health systems to solo practitioners, nurses, midwives, dentists, and many different allied health professionals. Chip also represents clients before licensing boards in Oregon and Washington and advises his clients on related health law matters. Additionally, he has experience in general liability lawsuits, including Employer Liability Law, premises liability and motor vehicle accidents.

Craig Oliver

Knowing the law is one thing, being able to apply it to ensure the best possible outcome for your client is another. Craig excels at making the complex simple and making the law work for you. He is an expert personal injuries lawyer with over 20 years’ experience and success. Craig trained and worked at some of the best plaintiff and insurance firms in the UK before coming to Australia in 2011 and continuing to practice exclusively in personal injury litigation. Craig spent a decade in regional Queensland before working as a general manager in Brisbane for a large national firm creating client-focussed, high-performing and value-driven teams of expert personal injury lawyers. He knows how to win and deliver outcomes for his clients in all types of claims, including the most severe life changing injuries such as brain injury, spinal injury and amputations. Knowing how to help you and your family deal with issues and stressors that stem from these injuries is key to minimising their impact on you and your family. Being injured is never convenient and Craig’s solutions focused approach starts making a difference on the issues that matter to you from the beginning and not just asking you to wait for compensation at the end. Knowing a good lawyer who is prepared to listen and deliver solutions in line with your priorities can make all the difference to your experience. Craig is an expert in motor vehicle injury claims, workplace injury claims, public liability injury claims, product liability injury claims and has particular expertise in personal injury claims involving the mining industry. He has an unrivalled understanding of the law, backed by decades of successful outcomes for clients who were facing uncertain futures and long recoveries. Craig is an expert, fearless and uncompromising in his pursuit of justice and in advocating for his clients. But what does this mean for you? It means exceptional client service. It means the best possible legal representation with legal advice you can understand and trust. It means confidence in the success of your claim. It means maximum compensation for the fairest fees. It means having someone who cares in your corner, making a difference, who is committed to providing you with solutions and hope for the future, irrespective of your injury. Craig has been recommended by the prestigious Doyles Guide as a leading personal injury lawyer. He was also a finalist in the Queensland Law Society’s Regional Lawyer of the Year during his time in Mackay. Passionate about giving back to his local communities, Craig has also volunteered his time with several organisations in Queensland, from Mackay through to Caboolture and Brisbane. Even in his leisure time, playing golf, he has raised money for local charities, particularly for the local hospital foundation supporting medical research projects.

Aryna Ryabinina

Ayrna Ryabinina is Mr. Weiser’s legal assistant and office manager at the Weiser Law Firm. She is originally from Ukraine and obtained a Masters in Economics from the Odessa National Economic University and a Masters in Jurisprudence from the Odesa Mechnikov National University in Ukraine. She graduated from Tulane University School of Law with a General LLM when she relocated to the United States. She is an attorney in Ukraine and is preparing to take the Louisiana Bar. She currently works on major litigation matters.