WRITTEN BY: James H. Lister Can the Change of Administration in Washington DC Also Solve Your Company’s or Industry’s Regulatory Problem? Hunting groups in Alaska and around the country, and many Native and non-Native residents of Alaska, strongly opposed a...
Written by: Jennifer C. Alexander After 39 years at our location on the corner 7th and M streets, Birch Horton Bittner Cherot’s (“BHBC”) Anchorage office has relocated to the Peterson Tower at 510 L Street, Suite 700, effective April 1, 2017. Our telephone numbers...
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....