Mari Hulbutta

1905 Harney St. Suite 300
Omaha, NE 68102
mhulbutta@bigfirelaw.com

TRIBAL AFFILIATION

Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation

Descendent of the Seminole and Muscogee (Creek) Nations of Oklahoma

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Columbia University (B.A. 2014)

Juris Doctor, Columbia Law School (J.D. 2020)

PRIOR LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Wilma Mankiller Fellow at the National Congress of American Indians (2014-2015); Public Policy Specialist at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (2015-2017); Political Ethics and Compliance Secondee at Facebook Inc. (2016-2017); Legal Intern for the Chickasaw Nation (2018); Summer Associate at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP (2019); Legal Intern for the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of New York (2019-2020); Teaching Fellow for Columbia Law School’s Arts & Entertainment Externship (2020); Associate General Counsel for the Chickasaw Nation (2020); Intellectual Property Litigation Clerk for Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP (2021)

ASSOCIATIONS AND HONORS

Chikasha Ihoo Empowerment Series, Inaugural Speaker, (2022); Columbia Law School’s Richard P. Richman Fellowship, Awardee, (2017-2020); National Native American Law Students Association (NNALSA), NE Area Representative, (2019-2020); Columbia Law School Social Justice Initiative, Public Interest Honoree, (2019); Columbia Native American Law Student Association, President, (2018-2019); Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Staff Editor, (2018-2019); NNALSA Moot Court Competition, Elite 8 Finalist, (2018); Holthusen-Schindler Scholarship, Awardee, (2017-2018); Justice John Paul Stevens Foundation Fellowship, Awardee, (2018)

LEGAL AUTHORSHIP

 Implementing the Music Modernization Act: Special Considerations for Promulgating Rules on Pre-1972 Ethnographic Sound Recordings, JLA Beat, (2019)

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