Gabriel S. Galanda

Gabriel S. Galanda, an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, is a partner at Galanda Broadman, PLLC, in Seattle. He represents tribal governments, businesses and members in all varieties of dispute and business dealing. Gabe’s practice focuses on complex, multi-party litigation and crisis management, representing tribal governments and businesses. He 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. Gabe 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. He also mediates and arbitrates disputes between tribal and non-tribal parties, including personal injury matters and conflicts between tribal and local, state or federal governments, as well as tribal intramural disputes. From 2000 to 2010, Gabe practiced law with the large, regional corporate firm, Williams Kastner, 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. In 2009, Gabe was named to the Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list and to the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s “Native American 40 Under 40” list in recognition of his status as an emerging leader in the legal industry. Gabe serves on the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management and Policy’s International Advisory Council. [Source: Galanda Broadman]