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Complex Litigation

BHBC understands that it is best when disputes are quickly and amicably resolved without the burden and expense of a lawsuit. However, when litigation is required, our litigators are second to none.

Tim Petumenos, Steve Hutchings, Greg Miller, Stan Lewis and David Gross form the shareholder core of the firm's litigation department. With many years of experience, National Institute for Trial Advocacy training and hundreds of jury and bench trials among them, our aggressive litigators are a force to be reckoned with in the courtroom. But they’re also well versed in alternative dispute resolution processes, including arbitration, mediation, adversary hearings before state, federal, and private sector hearing officers (including borough personnel and state commissioners), and administrative hearings in areas as diverse as those required by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.

This breadth and depth of expertise also enables BHBC to provide a litigation client an early analysis of likely outcomes and an estimate of the reserve that ought reasonably be established against a potential liability. With the experience of representing a number of the most well-known organizations in the business - CNA Insurance, XL Design and Lloyd's of London - the firm also has the capacity to provide its clients proposed litigation budgets that are practical and consistent, and that lead to excellent results.

Representative clients include:

• Matanuska-Susitna Borough
• Nabors Alaska Services Corporation
• Cook Inlet Region, Inc.
• Alaska Interstate Construction, LLC
• Association of Village Council Presidents Regional Housing Authority
• Alaska Housing Finance Corporation
• Alaska Energy Authority
• Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority
• Alaska Native Village and Regional Corporations
• Several of Alaska's leading architectural design and engineering firms

Reported cases include:

• Guerrero v. Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, 123 P.3d 966 (Alaska 2005) (Hutchings)
• Casciola v. F.S. Air Service, Inc., 120 P.2d 1059 (Alaska 2005) (Miller)
• Laidlaw Transit, Inc. v. Anchorage School District, 118 P.3d 1018 (Alaska 2005) (Hutchings)
• Norville v. Carr-Gottstein Foods Co., 84 P.3d 996 (Alaska 2004) (Miller)
• Anderson v. State ex rel. Central Bering Sea Fishermen's Ass'n, 78 P.3d 710 (Alaska 2003) (Petumenos)
• Tush v. Pharr, 68 P.3d 1239 (Alaska 2003) (Petumenos)
• K&K Recycling, Inc. v. Alaska Gold Co., 80 P.3d 702 (Alaska 2003) (Lewis)
• Central Bering Sea Fishermen's Ass'n v. Anderson, 54 P.3d 271 (Alaska 2002) (Petumenos)
• Lynden Inc. v. Walker, 30 P.3d 609 (Alaska 2001) (Petumenos)
• City of St. Mary's v. St. Mary's Native Corp., 9 P.3d 1002 (Alaska 2000) (Miller)
• Alaska Continental, Inc. v. Trickey, 933 P.2d 528 (Alaska 1997) (Hutchings)
• Coster v. Piekarski, 3 P.3d 333 (Alaska 2000) (Miller)
• Neal & Co., Inc. v. Association of Village Council Presidents Regional Housing Authority, 895 P.2d 497 (Alaska 1995) (Hutchings).

Attorneys

• Timothy J. Petumenos
• David K. Gross
• Stanley T. Lewis
• Stephen H. Hutchings
• Gregory A. Miller
• Max D. Garner
• Daniel C. Kent