One of Jerome Levine's first corporate transactions was to establish a bingo hall in the early 1980s for a client's brother-in-law.
It so happened that the brother-in-law was chairman of an American Indian tribe.
Levine, now a partner at Holland & Knight LLP's Los Angeles office, said that deal began a "long learning curve" about Indian law, which at the time primarily consisted of rights to fishing and natural resources. Hardly any case law existed on how American Indians ...