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S. Bobo Dean
Partner
After practicing for four years with the New York firm of Debevoise
Plimpton, Mr. Dean moved in 1965 to the Washington, D.C. office of
Strasser, Spiegelberg, Fried, Frank and Kampelman, the law firm founded
by Felix Cohen whose work in the Indian field was nationally known.
Mr. Dean co-founded Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Walker LLP in 1982 with
Charles Hobbs and Jerry Straus. He is presently the Firm's Managing
Partner.
Mr. Dean's extensive experience in the
representation of Indian tribal governments
and tribal organizations includes assisting
the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida
in negotiating the first contract with
the Bureau of Indian Affairs under which
an entire BIA agency is administered by
a tribal government. He has been instrumental
in the enactment and implementation of
the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act of 1975, and the 1988 and
1994 amendments to that Act. He served
as a member of the Negotiated Rulemaking
Committee which prepared regulations under
Title I of the Act as a representative
of tribes in Alaska.
Mr. Dean also assisted the National Indian
Steering Committee in the development of
a bill to reauthorize the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act and in supporting
the passage of the bill in 2002-2006. Also
in the health field, Mr. Dean has advised
tribes on their right to determine whether
to provide health services to non-Indians
(as against a federal agency view that
the Indian Health Service (IHS) can veto
such decisions) and has participated for
five years in an administrative proceeding
which arose from IHS's challenge to that
right. In Alaska, he has represented tribes
and tribal organizations in annual negotiations
of the Alaska Tribal Health Compact.
Mr. Dean assisted tribal clients and the
Tribal Leaders Steering Committee in developing
proposed legislation to strengthen tribal
sovereign authority and regularly reports
to tribal clients on legislative and judicial
developments affecting tribal sovereignty
and the Tribal Sovereignty Protection Initiative
sponsored by the National Congress of American
Indians. He is past chair of the Native
American Concerns Committee of the Section
on Individual Rights and Responsibilities
of the American Bar Association.
E-mail: sdean@hsdwdc.com
Phone: (202) 822-8282
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