SEATTLE, Wash. (January 29, 2016) - Joel W. Nomkin, a partner in Perkins Coie’s Litigation practice in Phoenix, and Charles G. Curtis, Jr., a partner in Perkins Coie’s Litigation practice in Madison and Washington, D.C., have been elected as members of the American Law Institute (ALI).  Joel and Chuck join 13 other Perkins Coie attorneys who are members of ALI: C. Randall Bain, David J. Burman, Timothy W. Burns, T. Markus Funk, Kevin J. Hamilton, Steve Koh, Stewart M. Landefeld, Martin E. Lybecker, Lorelie S. Masters, Katie M. O’Sullivan, Michelle M. Umberger, and James F. Williams.

Joel has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of complex commercial litigation and appellate law.  He also frequently serves as an advisor to in-house counsel on risk management and litigation strategy.  Along with his membership in ALI, Joel is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers [2010 - Present], is listed in Benchmark Appellate’s Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys as an Appellate Litigation Star for the Ninth Circuit, and was named by Best Lawyers as Phoenix’s 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” in Appellate practice.  Joel is a Board Member of the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, a Fellow of the American Bar Association, and a former Judge Pro Tempore of the Arizona Court of Appeals.  Joel is also a member of Perkins Coie’s Management and Executive Committees.

Chuck has significant litigation experience across a broad range of cutting-edge issues, in areas such as antitrust, environmental, communications, IP, distribution, political, administrative and constitutional law.  He has advocated for clients before administrative agencies and in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court.  His commercial litigation clients have included global leaders in technology, manufacturing, mining, sports, finance and consumer goods.  Chuck has focused a large part of his practice on Native American legal issues.  His work in this field has spanned treaty rights, environmental, energy, tax, IP, attorney liability, finance, and gaming law.  Chuck is recognized by Chambers USA for Native American Law (Nationwide) [2009 - 2015] and Litigation: General Commercial (Wisconsin) [2004 - 2015].

The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. The Institute (comprised of more than 4,400 lawyers, judges and law professors of the highest qualifications) drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles of law that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.  By participating in the Institute’s work, its distinguished members have the opportunity to influence the development of the law in both existing and emerging areas and to work with other eminent lawyers, judges, and academics.

Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high-value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,200 lawyers in offices across the United States and Asia, we provide a full array of corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property, and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, including many of the world’s most innovative companies and industry leaders as well as public and not-for-profit organizations.

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