Post by blackcrowheart on Oct 13, 2006 11:10:55 GMT -5
Native lawyer named top attorney
Standingbear has worked with Osages, Creeks, Sac & Fox
Native American Times 10/10/2006
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Geoffrey M. Standingbear, a Pawhuska-based attorney that has served as
the president of an Oklahoma tribal bar association and worked on
multiple cases with several other tribes, is one of the best lawyers in
the country, according to his peers.
Standingbear is included in the 2007 edition of �"The Best Lawyers
in America,�" which Corporate Counsel magazine calls the �"most
respected referral list of attorneys in practice.�"
Lawyers are prohibited from paying a fee to be listed in the book, and
inclusion is based of surveying 24,000 attorneys nationally.
Standingbear was president of the Osage County Bar Association from
94-95, president of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Bar Association in 2004
and represented the Oklahoma Attorney General�'s office to the
Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission from 1995 through 1998. He currently
works as an attorney with the Creeks, the Sac & Fox, and the Oklahoma
Indian Gaming Association as well as in private criminal and civil
defense cases.
Standingbear has long been a vocal figure advocating tribal interests
and history.
�"The disappearance of the buffalo meant starvation and disease for
the Indians," he told High Country News in 1994. The outdoors-aficionado
magazine was reporting on the ecosystem of the Osage Hills of
northeastern Oklahoma.
Standingbear has worked with Osages, Creeks, Sac & Fox
Native American Times 10/10/2006
www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?actionfiltered=displayarticle&artic\
le_id=8232
<http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=8\
232>
Geoffrey M. Standingbear, a Pawhuska-based attorney that has served as
the president of an Oklahoma tribal bar association and worked on
multiple cases with several other tribes, is one of the best lawyers in
the country, according to his peers.
Standingbear is included in the 2007 edition of �"The Best Lawyers
in America,�" which Corporate Counsel magazine calls the �"most
respected referral list of attorneys in practice.�"
Lawyers are prohibited from paying a fee to be listed in the book, and
inclusion is based of surveying 24,000 attorneys nationally.
Standingbear was president of the Osage County Bar Association from
94-95, president of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Bar Association in 2004
and represented the Oklahoma Attorney General�'s office to the
Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission from 1995 through 1998. He currently
works as an attorney with the Creeks, the Sac & Fox, and the Oklahoma
Indian Gaming Association as well as in private criminal and civil
defense cases.
Standingbear has long been a vocal figure advocating tribal interests
and history.
�"The disappearance of the buffalo meant starvation and disease for
the Indians," he told High Country News in 1994. The outdoors-aficionado
magazine was reporting on the ecosystem of the Osage Hills of
northeastern Oklahoma.