Paul Echo Hawk maintains an active litigation and business practice as the managing member of Echo Hawk Law Office. His experience includes work as a litigation associate in the Boise office of Holland & Hart and as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Prior to working for the Justice Department, Paul served as a law clerk for the Idaho Supreme Court. His experience also includes employment with the United States Attorney, District of Idaho, and the Native American Rights Fund in their Washington, D.C. office. Paul graduated with honors (cum laude) from the Brigham Young University Law School in 1998. During law school, he was a member of the Law Review Board of Editors, a member of the Moot Court Team and Trial Advocacy Team, and was a Teaching Assistant for the Legal Writing and Criminal Law classes. Paul is an enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and specializes in representing Tribal governments and enterprises. He has tried numerous cases in State, Federal, and Tribal Courts and primarily focuses his current practice on representing Native American Tribal governments.

Admitted to Practice:

• Idaho State Bar

• Utah State Bar

• United States Supreme Court

• United States District Ct, Dist. ID & UT

• U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit

• U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit

• U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit

• Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Bar

Practice Areas:

• Civil Litigation

• Federal Indian Law

• Water/Environmental Law

• Commercial Banking

• Real Estate

• Criminal Law

• Business Representation

  Contact Information:

Professional Activities

• Adjunct Professor (Federal Indian Law), Seattle Univ. Law

School, 2014

• Idaho Law Foundation, Past Board Member

• Member, Idaho Bar Association

• Member, Utah Bar Association

• Member, United States Supreme Court Bar

Publications

• Larry EchoHawk & Paul EchoHawk, Curing a Search

Warrant That Fails to Particularly Describe the Place to

be Searched, 35 Idaho Law Review 1 (1998).

• Special Feature: Winner, Best Appellate Brief in the 1997 Native

American Law Student Association Moot Court Competition, 22

Am. Indian L. Rev. 263 (1997).

Education

• J. Reuben Clark Law School at B.Y.U. (J.D., 1998), Cum laude

• Brigham Young University (B.S., 1995), Political Science,

English, Varsity Baseball