Robert Anderson is Of Counsel to the firm. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1983 and is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (Bois Forte Band). From 1995 to 2001, Bob served first as the Department of the Interior's Associate Solicitor for Indian Affairs and then as Counselor to the Secretary. In these positions, Bob provided legal and policy advice on a wide variety of issues, with a special emphasis on Indian law, water rights, public land issues and Endangered Species Act matters. He was Secretary Babbitt's point person on water rights issues in Idaho, the Klamath Basin and in the Lummi groundwater dispute in western Washington. Prior to serving in government, Bob spent twelve years as a Senior Staff Attorney for the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), where he litigated major cases involving state, federal and tribal jurisdiction and water law as well as hunting and fishing rights. He is one of the two attorneys who opened NARF's Alaska Office in 1984 and handled major litigation over the nature and scope of reserved water rights in Alaska. He also was the lead attorney for the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho's Snake River Basin Adjudication. He has frequently testified before congressional committees on a wide array of Indian law and natural resource issues, and he is on the Board of Editors of the forthcoming third edition of FELIX COHEN'S HANDBOOK OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW.

Bob is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Law, where he teaches Indian Law, Public Land Law and Water Law, and he also serves as Director of the Native American Law Center. In 2007 Bob received the Native Justice Award from the Northwest Indian Bar Association.

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