Siena Caruso is an associate in the Anchorage office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP.  Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, but also encompasses transactional merger and acquisition matters.  Due to her experience as an associate in California prior to moving to Alaska, she continues to work on issues arising from or impacting clients in California.

Siena clerked for Justice Daniel Winfree of the Alaska Supreme Court and Judge Mark Rindner of the Anchorage Superior Court.  She received her JD from University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, and her undergraduate degree in International Development and Mandarin from University of California Los Angeles.

Whitney Brown is an associate at Stoel Rives LLP with a practice focused on appeals and complex civil litigation. She previously served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Morgan Christen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Juge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Justice Goodwin H. Liu of the Supreme Court of California. Before law school, she worked as a legislative assistant in health policy in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives and as a charter school evaluator for Chicago Public Schools. After work, she can be found hiking in the Chugach with her spaniel-mix puppy, Marbury.

Renee Wardlaw serves as Vice President, Corporate Compliance and Administration for Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC). In her current capacity, Renee oversees the corporate compliance and ethics program, which includes implementing various policies and procedures, creating interactive and engaging training, and determining and implementing the strategic direction of BBNC’s Annual Leadership and Compliance Conference. She is also charged with managing the Board of Directors governance with a focus on board and committee meeting management. Additionally, Renee oversees BBNC’s contract management program, export compliance program, records and information management program, and user implementation of technology resources.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Stony Brook University and her law degree and MBA from American University. Renee previously served as an Associate Attorney for Baxter, Bruce & Sullivan, P.C. in Juneau, Alaska and as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alaska Division of Banking and Securities.

Renee is a member of several community service organizations, including the NAACP, Jack and Jill of America, and the Rasmuson Foundation, Black in Alaska Advisory Committee. She is also the Alaska State Coordinator for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, the largest African American sorority in the world.

Renee currently serves as the Communications Chair for the Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers and as Co-chair of the Alaska Bar Association Diversity Commission, a Commission dedicated to increasing the number of BIPOC lawyers in Alaska. In 2021, Renee was selected as one of Alaska’s Top Forty under 40 and was elected to the Board of Directors for the Alaska Humanities Forum.

Renee is a proud daughter of immigrants as her family hails from Jamaica, West Indies. She enjoys shopping, reading, spinning/cycling and spending time with her friends and family.

Chelsea is a shareholder at Foley & Pearson, P.C. where she has practiced estate planning and administration since 2014. She helps clients and their families understand and navigate the transitions of death and incapacity from a legal (and sometimes emotional) perspective. Chelsea has a passion for educating and empowering her clients and believes strongly in the power of planning for the future. She has authored a number of articles and presented to numerous organizations on a variety of estate planning topics, including planning for high net worth individuals, planning for digital assets, and charitable planning. Her love of order and organization is well-suited to her transactional practice, and untangling fraught legal and interpersonal knots gives her great joy. She also directs her skills and passion toward her volunteer pursuits on local boards and for the Alaska Legal Services Corporation.

 Chelsea was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She is a former law clerk to the Honorable Judge McKay (retired), the daughter of the Honorable Charles W. Ray, Jr. (retired) and Jenny Ray, and the wife of Brian Riekkola, founding partner of North Star Law Group. When not in the office, you are likely to see Chelsea on the trails in the greater Anchorage area, often sporting an unusual combination of shorts and expedition mittens, and frequently escorted by her dog, Pickle.

Born and raised in Anchorage, Emma has been an attorney in Anchorage, Alaska, since 2008. After clerking for the honorable Judge Aarseth, Emma worked at the District Attorney’s office. In nearly five years at the DA’s office, Emma prosecuted a wide variety of crimes, ranging from DUIs and shopliftings to homicides. Emma worked two years in a small private practice handling small business administration, probate and estate planning matters, before coming to the child protection section of Alaska’s Department of Law. As a child protection attorney, Emma represents the Office of Children’s Services. As one of the office’s Senior Assistant Attorney Generals, Emma also assists in training new attorneys to her section, providing trainings to the client, and assisting in statewide court training for child protection practitioners in a variety of roles. When she’s not working, Emma enjoys anything that involves playing outside, volunteering for the Arctic Bicycle Club, reading, and teaching her young daughter everything about Alaska.

Danée attended the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a certification in Applied Business. After graduation, Danée worked as a licensed stockbroker for Charles Schwab. While at the University of Denver, College of Law, Danée's focus was in criminal law and trial practice.

Upon graduation from law school, Danée moved to Alaska where she was the law clerk for Superior Court Judge Phillip Volland from 2004-2005. She then worked for the Alaska Public Defenders Agency representing parents in Child in Need of Aid actions and representing defendants as a trial attorney in Anchorage and several rural communities. Danée spent 2006-2009 as an associate for the law firm Dillon & Findley, practicing personal injury plaintiffs’ work, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and criminal defense.

In 2010, Danée opened her own practice, The Law Offices of Danée L. Pontious. Her practice at that time focused primarily on State and Federal criminal defense. In 2012, Danée closed her practice to begin a family, though she continued to be active in the law and legal community. From 2012 to 2017, Danée worked at the Law Offices of Dattan Scott Dattan, where she expanded her practice areas to family, estate, and business law.

Danée has been a member of the Alaska Bar Association since 2004. In addition to being the sole proprietor of Pontious Law Offices, Danée is a member of the Federal Bar Association, a Lawyers Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, and a member of the Criminal Justice Act panel, which appoints private attorneys to indigent federal criminal defendants when the Federal Public Defenders have a conflict.

Kayla is an in-house attorney with Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), serving as their Senior Corporate Counsel. Her practice focuses on advising ASRC on matters ranging from litigation to ANCSA implications, and many matters in between. Prior to joining ASRC, Kayla was a litigation attorney in the Anchorage office of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt. She also clerked and practiced law in Texas for six years before returning home to Alaska in 2020.

Kayla was born and raised in Alaska and enjoys spending time outdoors with her family in her free time.