After five years with the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Allison Binney has rejoined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

Binney, a member of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, served as staff director, chief counsel and general counsel of the committee during her Capitol Hill tenure. She worked on the Cobell settlement, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, the Tribal Law and Order Act and other big Indian issues.

Binney will now work on tribal matters at the firm. "The decision to return to Akin was a natural one," she said in a press release. The firm has a reputation for accomplishment on behalf of Indian tribes, and I am looking forward to helping to continue that tradition."

Akin Gump came under scrutiny when one of its partners described the prayer of a Pascua Yaqui man as "ugly" on a conservative blog. The firm apologized for the post and the partner stopped bloggin.

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Press Release: Staff Director to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Rejoins Akin Gump's American Indian Law Practice (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 3/31)

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