About
Brad Jolly has practiced Indian law solely representing Indian tribes for his whole profession. He graduated from the Indian Legal Program cum laude from Arizona State University College of Law, wherein he obtained the Alan A. Matheson Service Award and was a Pedrich Scholar. He additionally served as President of the Native American Law Students Association and as a scholar member of the Indian Legal Program Faculty Committee. Brad graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in Native American Studies. While attending law school, he posted a piece of writing inside the Arizona State University Law Journal entitled The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: The Unwavering Policy of Termination Continues, which analyzed the IGRA as an invasion of tribal sovereignty and an extension of the Termination Era legislation, P.L. 280, to all tribes inside the region of gaming. The article has been stated through federal courts and the Secretary of the Interior. In addition, Brad served as a law clerk for the Colorado River Indian Tribes and the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community. He also has drafted regulations of court for the popularity and enforcement of tribal court judgments for the Arizona State, Tribal, and Federal Court Forum, which were ultimately adopted through the Arizona Supreme Court in May 2000.
After graduating from law college, Brad became given a fellowship at the Arizona State University College of Law wherein he labored toward establishing an Indian Law Clinic and supervised students in assisting various Indian tribes with felony issues. Brad additionally served as Assistant Lawyer General for the Colorado River Indian Tribes of Arizona and California, in which he at once recommended the Tribal Council and man or woman tribal departments and his exercise covered a wide variety of Indian law issues, consisting of jurisdictional topics, gaming problems and arbitrations, trespass actions, quiet identify moves, contracts and taxation problems. Before returning to the West and establishing his very own practice, Brad worked for numerous years as an accomplice at a small law workplace in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he totally represented Indian tribes as general and special recommend and practiced Federal Indian regulation and Tribal regulation, engaging in each transactional work and litigating on behalf of tribe s and tribal instrumentalities and businesses placed in several states in a extensive range of topics, inclusive of governmental, industrial, monetary, gaming, Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and employment subjects.
Brad has represented Indian tribes during the US, which include Arizona, California, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska, as general and unique counsel continuously at some stage in his career. He is admitted within the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ninth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, the U.S. District Court of Arizona, U.S. District Court of Nebraska, the U.S. District Court of Colorado, the U.S. Federal Court of Claims, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Tribal Court, the Hopi Tribal Court, the Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa Tribal Court, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community Tribal Court, and the States of Arizona and Nebraska.
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- Partner
Brad S. Jolly & Associates
2009 - Founding Partner
Small Indian Law Office in Denver, Colorado
2004 - Associate
Small Indian Law Office in Minneapolis, Minnesota
1999 - Assistant Lawyer General
Colorado River Indian Tribes
1998 - Law Clerk
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
1995 - Law Clerk
Colorado River Indian Tribes
1995
Educations
Graduation year: 1994
Graduation year: 1989
