Sarah G. Thompson joined the firm in 2022. She works in all areas of the firm’s practice. Before joining the firm, Ms. Thompson clerked for two years for Judge Jeffrey L. Viken of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.
Ms. Thompson graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 2020. She also earned a Masters in American Indian Studies from UCLA that same year. While in law school, she served as a Senior Editor for the UCLA Law Review and spent two summers as a summer associate with the firm in Anchorage and Washington, DC. Ms. Thompson received her B.A. in philosophy and American Indian and Indigenous Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015.
Publications
Angela R. Riley & Sarah Glenn Thompson, Mapping Dual Sovereignty and Double Jeopardy in Indian Country Crimes, 122 Colum. L. Rev. 1899 (2022).
Practice areas
- Alaska Native Law
- Environmental Law
- Health Law
- Jurisdiction and Tribal Sovereignty
- Legislation and Lobbying
- Litigation: Trial, Appellate and Supreme Court
- Natural Resources
- Self-Determination and Self-Governance
- Tax Law
- Treaty Rights
- Tribal Codes
- Tribal Economic Development
- Trust Land Acquisitions
- Trust Responsibility
- Water Rights
Judicial Clerkships
- Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
Education
UCLA School of Law, J.D., 2020
University of California, Los Angeles, M.A., 2020
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A, 2015
Bar & Court Admissions
- District of Columbia, 2023
- Oregon, 2020