Attorney Bryan Newland has landed a new private sector gig after four years of service as the Biden administration’s Indian Affairs assistant secretary.
Newland is joining the Washington, D.C.-based Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville law firm as a principal in the firm’s tribal governments group.
“They really put their clients up front, and they’ve got good people with good ethics,” Newland said in an interview Thursday. “I’ve known some of these guys for a long time, and it just felt like it was a good fit.”
Since its founding in 1983 as a small firm specializing in health care law, Powers has expanded its reach into other areas as well. Public records show that it has registered to lobby on behalf of a number of clients, many of them related to health care but also including the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation in Washington state, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in Idaho and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in Washington state, among others.
