Jim Glaze joined the firm's Washington, D.C. office in 1999 after working in the firm's Anchorage office for six years. He joined the firm's Anchorage office in 1993 following a two-year clerkship with the Honorable Edmond W. Burke, Supreme Court of the State of Alaska. Mr. Glaze has served as a legal consultant on the Indian Reservation Roads Negotiated Rulemaking Committee and the IHS Self-Governance Negotiated Rulemaking Committee. He has also assisted tribal clients in litigation, negotiations and a wide range of other matters involving, among other things, the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), the Indian Reservation Roads program, tribal mineral development, construction and federal contracting, water projects, labor law, employment law and administrative law. Mr. Glaze's article, Developing the Mineral Res on the "Rez," the New Indian Gas Royalty Regulations: Is it Still a Matter of Trust?, was published in the Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal, Spring 2003, Vol. 22, No. 1, at 36-69.

Mr. Glaze received a B.A., magna cum laude , in Language Studies and Philosophy from Humboldt State University in 1984 and an M.A. degree in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego in 1987. Mr. Glaze received his J.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1991.