Akin Gump Lawyer Scores Personal Win in Tribal Statue Effort (1)

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s Katie Brossy tapped every resource she had in her pro bono campaign to replace the statue of William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall with that of Ponca Tribe Chief Standing Bear.

Brossy used her legal skills as a long-standing senior counsel at the firm with a focus on American Indian policy. She parlayed her lobbyist colleagues’ Capitol Hill connections.

And she took great inspiration from the fact that she’s a Ponca tribe member.

Brossy was on hand as the 11-foot statue of Standing Bear, a notable Native American civil rights ...