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James Qaqundah – Attorney at Law
Sacramento, California
phone: 916.441.2700
fax: 916.441.2067
email: email me

Mr. Qaqundah joined the firm in 2009

PRACTICE AREAS: General Indian Law; Litigation; Commerce & Tobacco; Sovereignty Issues.

ADMISSIONS: California, Colorado

EDUCATION: American University Washington College of Law (J.D., Cum Laude, 2008); University of California, Davis (B.S., Psychology; B.A., English). While in Law School, Mr. Qaqundah was the Articles Editor for the American University Law Review.

ASSOCIATIONS: Colorado Bar Association; Colorado Indian Bar Association; American Bar Association.

PRIOR LEGAL EXPERIENCE: Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Qaqundah worked as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey, Colorado Supreme Court. He also served as a Law Clerk to the Native American Rights Fund’s Tribal Supreme Court Project in the Washington, D.C. office, volunteered at the DNA People’s Legal Services, and worked as a Student Attorney in the Disability Rights Law Clinic.

During Law School Mr. Qaqundah co-founded the Washington College of Law Chapter of Native American Law Students and received the Washington College of Law Community Service Award. He has researched issues regarding tribal sovereignty, tribal regulatory immunity and immunity from suit, and rights-of-way through private Indian-owned land. Mr. Qaqundah has also researched the Indian law jurisprudence of certain Justices of the United States Supreme Court.