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Derril Jordan – Of Counsel
Washington, DC
phone: 202.223.0893
cell: 202.997.0254
fax: 202.223.0894
email: email me

Mr. Jordan joined the firm in 2008.

TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Member, Mattaponi Tribe of Virginia

PRACTICE AREAS: Tribal government; tribal sovereignty and self-determination; jurisdiction; reservation economic development; inter-governmental affairs; land-into-trust; land claims; gaming law.

ADMISSIONS: Michigan, New Mexico, New York, and Washington, D.C. Also the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, the Western District of New York, and Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION: Cornell Law School (J.D., 1987) (Lawyers Cooperative Publisher's Award for Academic Achievement in American Indian Law); Temple University (M.S.W., 1980); Temple University (B.S.W., Cum Laude 1979).

TEACHING POSITIONS: Adjunct Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Spring 2007 and Spring 2008 (Federal Indian Law); Adjunct Professor of Law, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, (Fall 1986).

ASSOCIATIONS: Federal Bar Association; New Mexico Bar Certified Specialist in Federal Indian Law.

Mr. Jordan has extensive experience in representing tribal governments. He served as the in-house tribal attorney for the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan from 1987 to 1992 and subsequently served as the Attorney General for the Seneca Nation of Indians. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Jordan served as the Associate Solicitor-Indian Affairs at the United States Department of Interior. He has since been in private practice in Washington, D.C., representing tribal clients in a variety of matters before the Department of Interior, the Department of Justice, Congress, and the federal courts. His areas of expertise include trust land acquisitions, tribal code development, tribal gaming issues, including class III compact and ordinance approvals, management and development contract issues, and Indian land determinations, as well as jurisdictional matters, land claims, historic and cultural preservation, and Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) matters. Mr. Jordan has testified before Congress on tribal sovereign immunity, federal recognition, and tribal gaming issues.