Title: 1) Founder and Senior Counsel; 2) Adjunct Professor
Company: 1) Reid Law LLC; 2) University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
Andrew B. Reid, founder and senior counsel at Reid Law LLC and adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Lawyers for dedication, achievements, and leadership in legal services and advocacy.
With nearly five decades of experience, Mr. Reid has carved out a distinguished career in a great many areas of law including constitutional law, complex and novel litigation, environmental and natural resources law, federal Indian law, appeals, and international and human rights law. More recently, as the founder and senior counsel at Native Justice, LLC, he provides legal counsel and strategic guidance, focusing on advancing the liberation of indigenous communities from colonial occupation and rule. He has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver since 2008. Prior to establishing his current law firm in 2019, he served as senior counsel with the prominent progressive law firms of Springer & Steinbert, PC, Walter L. Gerash, Kevin Hannon.
Mr. Reid has served as domestic and international counsel for a number of Native nations including the Onondaga Nation, the Oglala Lakota Nation, and the Garifuna Nation, providing crucial legal insights and representation on ground-breaking issues. He has acted as counsel for many Native and major environmental public interest organizations. He has dedicated his life and career to public service and justice. He recently accepted an appointment as a Judge to the Trial Court of the Ezidikhan Court for International Crimes.
Additionally, Mr. Reid has served as an adjunct professor at several colleges and universities, including for the last 15 years at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law, and as a guest lecturer at various institutions. He is a frequent invited presenter at national and international conferences on his work and cutting-edge issues of Indigenous, environmental, constitutional, international, and human rights law. As a researcher and writer, his work has appeared in a number of law journals, books, and other publications.
Mr. Reid pursued a human relations master’s program at the University of Oklahoma from 1972 to 1974, followed by earning a Bachelor of Arts in sociology with a minor in human relations, psychology, and ethnic studies, graduating with high honors in 1974. He then completed a Bachelor of Liberal Studies at the University of Oklahoma that same year. While pursuing master’s degree in human relations, he was accepted to the law school at the University of Oklahoma where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1978. He furthered his legal education with a Master of Laws from the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver in 2004 with specializations in water law and policy and environmental law and policy. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, multiple United States Courts of Appeals and District Courts, and various state Supreme Courts, including Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota and has appeared before many international tribunals and forums including those at the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He also holds a Legal Education Certificate in British common law from the Eugene Dupuch Law School in the Bahamas.
Mr. Reid credits his success to a strong sense and dedication to fairness, hard work, open-mindedness, creativity, honesty, and trustworthiness in his client advocacy. Looking ahead, Mr. Reid is dedicated to continuing to engage both domestically and internationally in the just struggles of Indigenous and peoples for their freedom and rights and in the protection of our environment and ecosystems.
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