Written by: Adam W. Cook Attorneys Adam Cook, Leila Kimbrell, and Steve Hutchings at the Opening Ceremony on April 5, 2017 Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot attended the groundbreaking for the new Paul John Calricaraq Project in Bethel, Alaska on April 5, 2017. The...
Written By: Michael Sebring & Jon M. DeVore Each year, Alaska Native and rural communities across Alaska apply for and receive grants to assist them in funding drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects. Some of these communities are critically...
Written by: Jack McKenna, pictured below on his fat tire bike This past February, Attorney Jack McKenna competed in the Susitna 100 Winter Wilderness Race. He completed the 100 mile course in just over 31 hours on a fat-tire bicycle with 4-inch studded tires. The...
Jason Brandeis’ Article on Marijuana Law Published in Bar Association Journal Alaska is one of few states that permits adults to purchase marijuana for medical or recreational use through a regulated commercial market. But because marijuana is a prohibited controlled...
Written by: Holly C. Wells It seems each season a new television series pops up, magnifying the mystery of Alaska’s waters and the lucky men and women that build their lives around them. One story that remains untold, however, is that of the Alaska fleet and its very...
Written by: Elisabeth Ross, pictured below with her husband, Ben Long Elisabeth (Lisa) Ross recently returned from a two week trip to the South Island of New Zealand sponsored by a board member of the Prince William Sound Science Center, a non-profit research and...
Written by: Carissa D. Siebeneck Anderson The SBA published an important regulatory change in a December corrections notice, so it may have slipped under the radar of your normal SBA rulemaking monitoring. In a correcting amendments notice published on December 27,...
Written by Amy P. Walters The IRS has overhauled its determination letter program in a revenue procedure that sweeps away the five-year remedial amendment periods previously used to gauge whether a retirement plan document conformed to the requirements of the Code....
Written by Max D. Garner and Adam W. Cook Construction is Alaska’s third-largest industry, employing more than 16,000 people. Of the more than $7 billion spent on construction last year, more than one third was for public projects. These projects are usually...
Birch Horton attorney Jason Brandeis was recently interviewed by Alaska’s CBS News affiliate about the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court. Judge Gorsuch was nominated by President Trump to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the...