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CALIFORNIA Sacramento Office: 2020 L Street, Suite 250 Sacramento, CA 95811 Phone: 916-441-2700 Fax: 916-441-2067 COLORADO Louisville Office: 1900 Plaza Drive Louisville, CO 80027 Phone: 303-673-9600 Fax: 303-673-9155 MICHIGAN Peshawbestown Office: 2848 Setterbo Road Peshawbestown, MI 49682 Phone: 231-631-8558 NEBRASKA Omaha Office: 3610 North 163rd Plaza Omaha, NE 68116 Phone: 402-333-4053 Fax: 402-333-4761 NORTH DAKOTA Mandan Office: 3730 29th Avenue Mandan, ND 58554 Phone: 303-673-9600 Fax: 701-663-5103 SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls Office: 3817 Slaten Park Drive Sioux Falls, SD 57103 Phone: 605-338-9147 Fax: 605-339-1769 Rapid City Office: 2040 W. Main, Suite 110 Rapid City, SD 57702 Phone: 605-791-1515 Fax: 605-791-1915

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: Civil litigation; Tribal Governance; Commerce & Tobacco; Tribal Ordinances/Resolutions; Tribal Enrollment; Administrative Law; Juvenile and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).

ADMISSIONS: California; Colorado; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; U.S. District Courts for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribal Court.

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 Articles Editor for the American University Law Review.

ASSOCIATIONS: Colorado Bar Association; California Bar Association; Federal Bar Association, Indian Law Section; Sacramento Bar Association; National Lawyers Guild.

PRIOR LEGAL EXPERIENCE: Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Qaqundah worked as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey of the 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 Washington College of Law’s 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, rights-of-way through private Indian-owned land, and the Indian law jurisprudence of certain Justices of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Qaqundah also has experience drafting governing documents including by-laws, ordinances, and resolutions.