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What the Team is Known For

Kanji & Katzen is a highly distinguished and experienced group noted for its representation of Indian nations and tribes. The team advises primarily on sovereignty and governance matters, treaty rights, taxation and jurisdictional issues. It has a strong reputation among peers for appellate litigation at all levels, including up to the Supreme Court. The group is known to be increasingly handling environmental disputes such as contamination and fishing rights as part of its growing emphasis on environmental protection.

Work Highlights

  • Kanji & Katzen advised the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in an matter through which the Nation sought declaratory and injunctive relief prohibiting Tulsa from asserting criminal jurisdiction over Indians within the Creek Reservation.

Strengths

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Kanji & Katzen is one of the top Indian law firms in the country. Everyone there has significant expertise and is not only very smart and kind, but also tenacious, comprehensive and ethical.

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The Kanji & Katzen team have fantastic intelligence, creativity, strategy and availability. They are dedicated to finding a viable legal argument even when others cannot see one.

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Kanji & Katzen are experts in their field. The team are extremely responsive and great to work with while also being very respectful of Tribal governance and strong advocators for Tribal sovereignty.

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K&K do an outstanding job in assisting tribes with litigation matters. They also have exceptional experience in their depth and breadth, and are very attentive and promptly respond to any inquiries.

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K&K has a rare combination of deep knowledge of Native American law, superb litigation judgment, a tremendous capacity to dive into the history and facts of a case, and sheer intellectual fire-power.

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Notable Practitioners

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Riyaz Kanji
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Riyaz Kanji has a stellar reputation, is widely acknowledged for his work advising tribes on treaty rights and environmental disputes, and is revered for his impressive appellate practice. He is particularly renowned for his Supreme Court work.

Riyaz is a brilliant lawyer. He is tenacious, knowledgeable, client-focused, and is a wonderful person while also being iron-willed in pursuit of his client's interest.

Riyaz is an expert in his field who is contacted by clients for their most sophisticated legal matters.

Riyaz is a smart lawyer, good litigator, and a great strategist in terms of stepping back and thinking about the real objectives.

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Cory Albright
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Cory Albright represents tribes in a wide range of disputes concerning sovereignty and treaty rights with additional experience advising on water rights, fisheries and natural resources.

Cory is exceptional at understanding the context of his client's unique circumstances while working to address specific legal issues.

Cory is an excellent lawyer on Native Law matters.

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David Giampetroni
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David Giampetroni has garnered a strong reputation for his work with Indian tribes and has experience representing clients in treaty rights and tribal sovereignty disputes.

David is a brilliant and extremely hard-working lawyer.

David is excellent in all aspects of his work.

David can analyze situations very quickly and come up with responses very quick as he is an incredible writer.

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Jane Steadman
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Jane Steadman is commended for her expertise at the intersection of environmental and Native American law. She is particularly knowledgeable of fishery matters.

Jane is a meticulous and scholarly lawyer with tremendous work ethic.

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John Sledd
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John Sledd is an accomplished attorney noted for his Native American law practice in which he represents tribes in matters of self-governance, treaty rights, economic development and natural resources.
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Riyaz Kanji
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Cory Albright
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David Giampetroni
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Jane Steadman
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John Sledd
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Riyaz Kanji
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