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Geoffrey D. Strommer
Partner
Geoff joined the Firm in 1992, and is managing partner of the Portland office. He represents tribal clients on a wide range of issues and is a nationally known expert on the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA).
Since 1992, Geoff has actively participated in the development and implementation of the ISDEAA. He has worked on efforts to draft and lobby for amendments to various titles of the ISDEAA, and he has been very involved with the development of regulations to implement Titles IV and V of Act as well as for the Indian Reservation Roads program. His work under the ISDEAA also includes negotiating contracts, compacts and annual funding agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service, and other federal agencies, including in 2003 the first funding agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He has successfully litigated a number of ISDEAA related disputes in administrative forums and federal court.
Geoff has assisted tribal clients on a range of other legal issues, including drafting and revising constitutions, bylaws and ordinances; acquiring and placing land into trust status, including the first ever transfer of land to a tribe under the ISDEAA and the Base Realignment and Closure Act; monitoring and advocating issues related to the Department of the Interior’s reorganization efforts through lobbying activities and litigation; and negotiating contracts with private parties.
In 1997, Mr. Strommer was an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College, where he co-taught a course on federal Indian law. In 2000 and 2001 he was an instructor in the Department of Health and Human Services Executive Leadership Development Program, where he taught a course on negotiation skills. He has written several published articles on Indian law issues. His most recent article, co-authored with Stephen D. Osborne, is entitled “Indian Country” and the Nature and Scope of Tribal Self-Government in Alaska, and was published in the June, 2005 Alaska Law Review. He also co-authored a law review article with Craig Jacobson in 1999 entitled Indian Tribes and the Base Realignment and Closure Act: Recommendations for Future Trust Land Acquisitions, North Dakota Law Review (September 1999).
Mr. Strommer received his J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1990, and his B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley (with distinction) in 1986. He is a member of the Oregon and Arizona bars.
E-mail: gstrommer@hsdwor.com
Phone: (503) 242-1745
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