Written by: Adam W. Cook Construction projects in Alaska and elsewhere are often protected by a surety bond and are also often covered by more than one insurance policy. Although a bond and an insurance policy are two very different things, they are often confused...
Please welcome the newest member of the BHBC family, Paige Taylor Davies. Mom, associate Katie Davies, and dad Bryn, welcomed Paige into the world on September 28, 2017. Paige and her big sister, Molly, are excited to be two of the firm’s most junior associates!
Written by: Jason Brandeis In an article published in the most recent edition of The Bar Rag, the Alaska Bar Association’s quarterly journal, Birch Horton attorney Jason Brandeis writes about emerging legal issues and regulatory changes in Alaska’s marijuana...
Written by: Jon M. DeVore On October 13, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Writ of Certiorari in the case of Rothe v. Department of Defense/U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), letting stand a DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision finding that the SBA 8(a)...
Written by: Jon M. DeVore Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot Shareholder Jon DeVore was recently interviewed by Set-Aside Alert regarding the United States Small Business Administration’s (“SBA”) new Small Business Mentor-Protégé Program. A frequent speaker at...
Written by: Suzanne Cherot Real estate law has been the focus of my practice for many years. I have represented commercial real estate owners and developers of office buildings, medical buildings, hotels and retail stores, owners and developers of residential...
Written by Jon M. DeVore The Trump Administration just released its first Unified Regulatory Agenda. This is one of the primary tools that the White House uses to control agency actions and has real impact on doing business with the government. Most agency rules...
Written by: Jason Brandeis On July 28-29, I attended the Cannabis Law Institute (http://www.canbar.org/cli/), held at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. This conference and continuing legal education event was put on by the National Cannabis Bar...
Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot (“BHBC”) is fast approaching its 50th anniversary. At a time when many established firms in Anchorage are closing their doors, I can’t help but appreciate how far we have come, and that we are still hard at work for our clients....
Written by: Mara E. Michaletz There is a horror scene in the Hitchcock movie “The Birds” which begins ominously in a restaurant in Bodega Bay, California. Tippi Hedren has driven up from San Francisco to bring a pair of lovebirds to a handsome stranger she met once...