Dana L. Bobroff | Attorney

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405 Martin Luther King NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102

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About Dana

Admitted: 2000, State Bar of Arizona; 2000, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona; 2000, Bar of the Navajo Nation; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 2004, State Bar of New Mexico

Education: New Mexico State University (Bachelor of Accountancy, 1993); University of Arizona, College of Law (J.D., 1999)

Member: State Bar of Arizona; State Bar of New Mexico; Navajo Nation Bar Association.

Employment: Before joining the Nordhaus Law Firm in January, 2007, Ms. Bobroff was employed as a Staff Attorney and then Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Navajo Nation Department of Justice. Ms. Bobroff's responsibilities as Deputy Assistant Attorney General included representation of the Navajo Nation legislative, executive, and judicial branches in the areas of finance and financing arrangements; investment of funds; budgeting; internal and independent audits; contracting; pension plans; self-insurance; external funding agreements, including twenty-six (26) Public Law 93-638 contracts; tribal laws; and labor/employment disputes.

Cases litigated by Ms. Bobroff while at the Navajo Nation Department of Justice include, but are not limited to, the following: Snyder. v. Navajo Nation, 371 F.3d 658 (9th Cir. 2004), upholding dismissal on grounds that the Fair Labor Standards Act does not apply to the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety and its employees; Appeals of Navajo Nation, 2004 WL 1405873 (I.B.C.A.), I.B.C.A. No. 4413R, 04-1 BCA P 32, 554, I.B.C.A., Mar. 04, 2004 (No. CTNOOT78024), holding that the Single Audit Act prevented the Bureau of Indian Affairs from assessing cost disallowances against the Navajo Nation more than one year after receipt of the Navajo Nation's Single Audit report; and Navajo Nation v. Shiprock District Court, SC-CV-03-04 (Nav. Sp. Ct. Jan. 2004), granting writ of prohibition that the Navajo Sovereign Immunity Act prohibited the Shiprock District Court from asserting jurisdiction over and holding the Office of the Prosecutor in contempt for the failure to timely return property seized by warrant when the action to return was filed under the Criminal Rules of Procedure, as opposed to a proper tort action.

Prior to attending law school, Ms. Bobroff practiced as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Phoenix, Arizona. Ms. Bobroff currently retains CPA licensure in Arizona.

Ms. Bobroff was recently elected to the Board of Directors, Indian Law Section, New Mexico Bar Association. She has also been a member of the Admissions Committee, Navajo Nation Bar Association, since 2003.

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