Mr. Shawn R. Frank

Shawn Frank

Jacobson, Buffalo, Magnuson, Anderson & Hogen

1360 Energy Park Dr., Ste. 210

St. Paul, MN 55108

(651) 644-4710

srf@jacobsonbuffalo.com

Shawn R. FrankAttorney Shawn Frank, Jacobson, Buffalo, Magnuson, Anderson & Hogen, P.C., Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Shawn R. Frank Energy Park Financial Center, Suite 2101360 Energy Park DriveSaint Paul, Minnesota 55108
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Mr. Frank joined the Firm in 2002, bringing substantial experience representing Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and entities doing business with tribes.Shawn is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians from the Allegany Reservation.

From 1994-1996, Mr. Frank served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Seneca Nation, advising and representing the tribal council and its Boards and Committees.While in house counsel, he worked extensively in the areas of federal self-determination contracts, federal grant administration, employment law, and tribal economic development.From 1996-2000, Shawn practiced with an Albuquerque, New Mexico law firm that practiced Indian law exclusively.Shawn continued working in on- and off-reservation Indian economic development initiatives.As general counsel, Mr. Frank worked closely with tribes in a variety of employment and labor issues, including drafting policies and procedures addressing sexual harassment claims, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.He also worked with a tribal collective in developing a parcel of trust land within Albuquerque's city limits, including negotiating agreements with the City, local neighborhood associations, developers, financiers, and tribal officials.Just before joining the Firm, Shawn was a corporate associate at a large Minneapolis law firm.In that capacity, he provided general corporate and business counsel services to public and private companies.In addition to advising clients on corporate contracts and agreements, Mr. Frank continued his work with tribal clients in the areas of tribal natural resource protection and regulation, administrative agency proceedings, and tribal governance issues.He successfully negotiated a settlement between a tribal organization and a railroad carrier to stop a proposed public trail through the reservation on an abandoned rail corridor.

Mr. Frank speaks regularly at lawyers' seminars on the subjects of tribal sovereignty, doing business in Indian Country, the Freedom of Information Act, and administrative appeals through the Department of the Interior.

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Shawn R. Frank

District Attorney's Office 307 Main Street Black River Falls, WI 54615 (715) 284-0242 fox.gerald@mail.da.state.wi.us Shawn Frank

Shawn R. Frank is an Associate at Leonard, Street and Deinard, recently transferring from Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash and Frye in Albuquerque, where he practiced exclusively in the area of Indian law.He was formerly an Assistant Attorney General with the Seneca Nation of Indians in Salamanca, New York, for two years following a clerkship with the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) in Washington, DC.

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