The Department of Homeland Security launched the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program to reduce cybersecurity risks for tribal governments. The initiative is intended to enhance the cybersecurity resilience of tribal governments by providing funding, technical assistance, and support to address cyber threats and risks.
GableGotwals is pleased to announce new associates have joined the Firm in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Trent Shores served as the Legal Technician on the production of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” vetting the courtroom and interrogation scenes in the film for accuracy.
Drones are revolutionizing an array of industries worldwide. With their versatile use-applications and advanced air mobility, opportunities associated with drones are sky-high.
GableGotwals successfully represented the Cherokee Nation in a civil lawsuit brought against it by Kimberlie Gilliland. From 2016 through 2019, the Cherokee Nation Attorney General charged Gilliland, a former executive director of the Cherokee Nation Foundation, with 15 total counts of embezzlement. While facing tribal criminal charges, Gilliland fled to Poland and filed a habeas petition in 2022 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, seeking to have a warrant for her arrest voided and tribal embezzlement charges dismissed. GableGotwals sought to dismiss Gilliland’s petition and, in doing so, defended tribal sovereignty and protected the integrity of the Cherokee Nation’s justice system.
Shareholders Trent Shores and Adam C. Doverspike successfully represented the Cherokee Nation in a civil lawsuit brought against it by Kimberlie Gilliland.
U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®, for the 12th consecutive year, announced the "Best Law Firms" rankings. GableGotwals is ranked in the 2023 list regionally in 75 practice areas.
Trent Shores co-drafted a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta on whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. “It is blackletter law that states have no jurisdictions over crimes committed by Indians or against Indians in Indian Country, the former federal prosecutors state in their brief,” authored by Shores and former U.S. Attorneys.