Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP is pleased to announce that River E.M. Sterne has joined the firm as an associate attorney. The new hire further strengthens the firm’s legal services especially Alaska Native law, subsistence and natural resources law, transactional, and litigation practice areas.
River was born and raised in Anchorage and graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School summa cum laude in 2023. As a law student, River served as Submissions Editor of the Lewis & Clark Law Review and Secretary of the Portland National Lawyers Guild chapter. He also clerked for the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government, worked as a summer associate at Kanji & Katzen, P.L.L.C. in Seattle, and externed for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. Following law school, River clerked for Justice Dario Borghesan on the Alaska Supreme Court.
At Landye Bennett Blumstein, we have built our practice around great lawyers who are leaders in their respective fields. We are excited for River’s future and how he will extend the high-quality legal services we offer our clients and community.