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Howard L. Brown – Partner
email: howardbrown@smbattorneys.com
phone: (928) 779-1050

Howard practices with the firm’s transactional department in Flagstaff and provides supervision for most of the firm’s cases that involve Indian law, tribal law and school law.  In addition, Howard has experience representing clients in employment matters and before various administrative agencies.  He also serves as a workplace investigator and a hearing officer on a variety of issues.  Howard is thus well-qualified to represent and advise businesses and individual clients in a variety of circumstances and transactions. 

Howard has published a number of scholarly articles on the subjects of Indian law and environmental law and has given many presentations on employment law, business law and Navajo law.  In addition, he is versed in educational law, allowing him to advise schools and other institutions of learning around the state and Indian country.  He serves on the Navajo Nation Bar Association’s Admissions Committee and is the past President of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Flagstaff.

PRACTICE AREAS

• Business Law
  
• Real Estate Transactions
  
• Employment Law
  
• Indian and Tribal Law
  
• School Law
  
• Workplace Investigations and Hearings

JURISDICTIONS

• State of Arizona (1999)
  
• U.S. District Court, District of Arizona (1999)
  
• Bar of the Navajo Nation (2000)
  
• Bar of the Hopi Tribal Courts (2000)
  
• Bar of the Gila River Indian Community (2003)
  
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (2003)

EDUCATION

• J.D., Boston College Law School (1997)
  
• B.A., magna cum laude, University of Arizona (1992)

PUBLICATIONS

• The 25th Anniversary of the Navajo Preference in Employment Act:  A Quarter Century of Evolution, Interpretation and Application of the Navajo Nation’s Employment Preference Laws, with co-author Hon. Raymond D. Austin, NEW MEXICO LAW REVIEW, vol. 40, p. 17 (2010).
• The Navajo Nation’s Peacemaker Division: An Integrated, Community-Based Dispute Resolution Forum, American Indian Law Review , vol. 24, p. 297 (1999), reprinted in Dispute Resolution Journal , vol. 57, p. 44 (May – Jul. 2002)
• The United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks: An Analysis of International Environmental Law and the Conference's Final Agreement, Vermont Law Review, vol. 21, p. 547 (1996)
• Expanding the Effectiveness of the European Union’s Environmental Impact Assessment Law, Note, Boston College International & Comparative Law Review, vol. 20, p. 313 (1997)

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