Peninsula Daily newsD8 sunDay, aPril 25, 2010 BusinessPoliticsEnvironment

New cliNic made

‘official’Port Angeles Mayor

Dan Di Guilio, center, holds scissors after cutting the ribbon for Family Medicine of Port Angeles’ new Downtown Health Clinic last weekend.

With him outside the building at 240 W. Front St. are clinic principals and red-coated Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, who helped with the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Physicians and staff have been in the building — a gutted and renovated former City Light building — since January.

Family Medicine’s Web site is www.fmpa.net for more information.

BoBBy l. Beeman

Lawyer from PA opens own law firmPractice will focus on tribes’ issuesPeninsula Daily news

SEATTLE — A lawyer born and raised in Port Angeles is launching his own law firm focusing on “Indian country’s most criti-cal legal needs.”

Gabriel S. “Gabe” Galanda and attorney Anthony Broadman have formed the law firm of Galanda Broadman, PLLC, in Seattle.

The firm specializes in complex, multi-party litiga-tion and crisis management, representing tribal govern-ments as well as general businesses.

“We are excited to have created an agile and respon-sive legal team to serve Indian country’s most criti-cal legal needs,” Galanda said.

“We are able to provide large-firm quality legal ser-vices in an efficient, dynamic format.”

Galanda was born in Port Angeles and raised there by a single mom.

He is a descendant of the Nomlaki and Concow tribes and an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Confederation in Northern California.

“I was unsure of myself and my potential when I graduated from Port Ange-les High School in 1993,” he told the Peninsula Daily News in 2002.

“That year I was hired to work as a receptionist at the [Port Angeles] law firm of Doherty Doherty & Ritchie.

“Over the next two years, John Doherty [later a Clal-lam County District Court judge] encouraged me to attend Peninsula College and to apply for scholar-ships and to consider a career in the law.

“John taught me by example how the law can positively affect the very essence of peoples’ lives, and he inspired me to become a lawyer.”

Galanda went on to graduate from Peninsula College in 1995 (where he was 1994-95 student body

president) before get-ting degrees from West-ern Wash-ington Uni-versity and the Univer-sity of Ari-zona College of Law.

In 1995 and again in 2001, he delivered the key-note address at Peninsula College’s commencement ceremonies.

The recipient of several awards, he was one of the driving forces behind the Washington State Bar Asso-ciation’s ruling in 2004 to add Indian law to the state bar exam.

He has worked the past 10 years for the Seattle-based law firm of Williams Kastner, specializing in complex, multi-party com-mercial litigation and Native American law.

Tse-whit-zen dispute

He was one of the attor-neys that settled the Tse-whit-zen-Hood Canal Bridge graving yard dispute in Port Angeles in 2006.

Galanda writes prolifi-cally about issues of tribal and gaming litigation and business and has been pub-lished more than 70 times in national periodicals.

He is the past president of the Northwest Indian Bar Association, past chair-man of the Washington State Bar Association Indian Law Section and is the current chairman of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Gam-ing Law Committee.

He has also been admit-ted to the International Masters of Gaming Law-yers.

He was named to the 40 Under 40 list by both Puget Sound Business Journal and the National Center for American Indian Enter-prise Development and has been named a Leading Edge Litigator, and Rising Star (eight times), by Washing-ton Law & Politics maga-zine.

Galanda can be con-tacted at Galanda Broad-man, P.O. 15146, Seattle 98115; 206-691-3631; www.galandabroadman.com; e - m a i l : g a b e @ g a l a n d a broadman.com.

Galanda

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