Enrolled citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians; admitted to Michigan Bar (2006); Wisconsin (2006); United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan (2006); Western District of Wisconsin (2008); Eastern District of Wisconsin (2008)
Michigan Office
Tel: (517) 755-0776
Fax: (517) 913-6231
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Univ. of Michigan (B.A. Political Science, 2003); Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Law School (J.D. 2006). |
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Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP (2007-2009); Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians (2006-2007); Judicial Intern for Hon. Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, Wisconsin Supreme Court (2006), Law Clerk, Wisconsin Legislative Council (2004, 2005), Legal Department Clerk, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians (2001-2003, 2005) |
Mr. Fletcher is well-versed in many areas of Indian law, and advises tribal governments, tribal gaming operations, tribal businesses, and tribal gaming commissions regarding self-governance, gaming, fee-to-trust, tax, economic development and diversification, child welfare, and inter-governmental negotiations and agreements with state and local governments. Zeke represents tribes and other tribal entities in all forums, such as federal, state, and tribal court in litigation and in administrative proceedings. He has presented at several Indian law conferences and has written law review articles on various topics of federal Indian law including “De Facto Judicial Preemption of Tribal Labor and Employment Laws,” 2008 Mich. St. L. Rev. 435; “Negotiating Meaningful Concessions from States in Gaming Compacts to Further Tribal Economic Development: Satisfying the “Economic Benefits” Test, South Dakota Law Review (forthcoming) and “Trapped in the Spring of 1978: The Continuing Impact of the Supreme Court’s Decisions in Oliphant, Wheeler, and Martinez,” Federal Lawyer, (March/April 2008).
Prior to joining Rosette & Associates, Mr. Fletcher practiced Indian law at a prestigious Michigan law firm and prior to that was the Assistant General Counsel of his own tribe, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians. Currently, he is serving as the Chair-Elect of the State Bar of Michigan’s American Indian Law Section, is a member of the Standing Committee on American Indian Law (as appointed by the President of the State Bar of Michigan), and is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Indian Law Section.
