Alaska Employment Law

Gov. Sarah Palin has appointed Paul Lyle from the Fairbanks AG’s office to replace Niesje Steinkruger on the Superior Court for the Fourth Judicial District. 

Lyle’s biographical statement reads:

Paul Lyle has lived in Fairbanks for 27 years.  He graduated in 1975 from Temple University with a B.B.A. (magna cum laude) and received his J.D. from Temple University School of Law in 1978.  He entered the Army Judge Advocate General Corps in 1979 and, in 1980, was assigned to Alaska where he served as a defense counsel at Fort Wainwright and subsequently as the supervising defense attorney for the Army in Alaska.  After leaving the Army, he was briefly in private practice with Birch, Horton.  In 1983, Paul was appointed as an assistant attorney general in Fairbanks where he has practiced child support, wage and hour, commerical, environmental, natural resource, construction and eminent domain law.  He served as the State Ethics Attorney from 2003 to 2005 and currently practices Indian law with a focus on tribal-state jurisdictional matters.  Paul has been married for 29 years and has three children.