Joan Wilson joined the firm's Anchorage Office in 2010 and specializes in matters of civil litigation and health, transportation and construction law.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Wilson spent six years with the Alaska Department of Law. Her tenure there included two years as an Assistant District Attorney prosecuting violent crime and four years as an Assistant Attorney General assigned to the Transportation and Commercial Law Sections. Ms. Wilson has successfully conducted several jury and bench trials. She regularly represented the State in contract negotiations for the design and construction of highways and major public facilities. She also advised the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services on matters of HIPAA compliance, grantee contracting and general governance. In her earlier private practice Ms. Wilson successfully litigated a number of cases involving commercial law, education law, employment law, disability law, environmental law, health care law, and fraud and abuse compliance.

Ms. Wilson is of counsel to the firm. She received her B.A. from Northwestern University in 1986 and her J.D. in 1996 from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, graduating magna cum laude. Ms. Wilson is a former law clerk to the Honorable H. Russel Holland, U. S. District Court Judge for the District of Alaska, the author of "Katie John v. United States: Redefining Federal Public Lands in Alaska" 26 Environmental Law 693 (1996) and a past contributor to the Alaska Employment Law Deskbook.

Ms. Wilson is former chair of the Alaska Bar Association's Health Law Section and a frequent speaker on health law matters, including HIPAA, HITECH, 42 C.F.R. Part 2, EMTALA, and the new health care reform act known as PPACA.