Glenn M. Feldman
Of Counsel
Services & Specializations
Admissions
Arizona
Address
4800 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 2000, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Office Tel.
480.682.4312
Fax
619.788.5521
Overview
Glenn focuses primarily on Indian gaming and reservation economic development activities, as well as tribal governmental functions. He acts as counsel to a number of Indian tribes, tribal casinos and tribal business ventures in Arizona, California and other western states. Glenn has extensive experience in drafting tribal codes and ordinances and has been involved in the negotiation of tribal-state gaming compacts in California, Arizona, Wisconsin, Kansas and Oklahoma.
- Successfully argued tribal gaming case, California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, before the United States Supreme Court.
- Provided legal counsel for casino financing transactions totaling more than $2.5 billion.
- Currently litigating important tribal court jurisdiction case before 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Currently defending tribal casino against alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in U.S. District Court, Southern District of California.
- Negotiated five new or amended Gaming Compacts for tribes in Arizona and California between 2015 and 2022.
- Negotiated complex hydrogen production facility lease for Arizona tribe.
- Drafted numerous Charters and other organizational documents for tribal business enterprises.
- Assisted in negotiating gas station design/build contract for California tribe.
- Won administrative sales tax appeal for California tribal casino.
- Negotiated and obtained federal approval for three tribal HEARTH Act ordinances.
- Drafted and revised numerous tribal gaming ordinances.
- Best Lawyers®, Arizona, Gaming Law and Native American Law, 2005-present
- Best Lawyers® in America, Lawyer of the Year, Native American Law, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2024
- Best Lawyers® in America, Lawyer of the Year, Gaming Law, 2015, 2017
- Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent Rating
- JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1973
- Speaker. “Tribal Court Jurisdiction Over Business Interruption Claims,” Northwest Insurance Law Seminar, October 23, 2024.
- Author. “The Cabazon Decision, Thirty-Five Years On,” San Diego Lawyer, September/October 2022.
- Author. “The Cabazon Decision,” Arizona Attorney, July/August 2022.
- Speaker. “The New Normal: What Does SCOTUS’ Ysleta Decision Mean For Indian Country?” Indian Gaming Association, June 29, 2022.
- Author. “35 and Counting,” Tribal Government Gaming Annual Industry Report, April 2022.
- Arizona State Bar, Past Chair, Indian Law Section
- Wood, William. “The (Potential) Legal History of Indian Gaming,” Arizona Law Review, Vol. 63:969, 2021.
- “Letters to the Editor – Textualist Gorsuch and McGirt v. Oklahoma,” The Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2020.
- Watts, Simon, “The Native American casino boom in the U.S.,” BBC World Service Radio, February 6, 2020
