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A BAEDEKER TO THE TRIBAL COURT
By William P. Zuger

Republished here with the kind permission of the North Dakota Law Review, which is one of the prime law reviews publishing articles on Native American legal issues.

When I started work as a temporary judge at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation, I had set foot on the reservation perhaps a half dozen times, only one of which, my employment interview with Standing Rock Tribal Chairman Ron His Horse Is Thunder four days earlier, was other than a visit to the Prairie Knights Casino. Since law school, I had firmly believed that one could never comprehend either the rule against perpetuities or Indian law. I had never handled a matter in tribal court and assumed it to be inherently unapproachable.

.... I remain firmly convinced as to the rule against perpetuities..... As to the tribal court, I have found it to be a user-friendly amalgam of Sioux and white culture and practices.... I am going to try to provide a guide to the uninitiated—a Baedeker..... Read the rest of Judge Zuger's guide to understand how to handle litigation in one tribe's court system.  From experience on various tribal reservations, this editor can state that Zuger's article give helpful insights into litigation in some of the Native American courts.

"Mr. Attorney, do not correct the expert’s typo errors in her report" - (and other top mistakes attorneys make with their own expert witness).
       By Leonard Bucklin.
There are right ways and wrong ways in which attorneys can interact with their own  expert....Read more.

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