Biography

Noah I. Star joined the firm in 2025. Mr. Star works in all areas of the firm’s practice, with a particular focus on natural resources, fisheries, environmental, and energy law, as well as trial and appellate litigation.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Star clerked for Justice Jennifer Stuart Henderson on the Alaska Supreme Court.  After clerking, Mr. Star was an Associate at another law firm in Anchorage working on fisheries, natural resources, and general counsel matters for tribes and local governments around Alaska. He also served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Alaska Department of Law representing the Board of Fisheries and Department of Fish and Game. 

Mr. Star graduated from Harvard Law School in 2021, where he served as a Managing Editor for the Harvard Environmental Law Review. During law school, Mr. Star interned with the Alaska Department of Law and the Delaware Department of Justice, representing natural resources and environmental state agencies, and a law firm in Seattle, WA, representing tribes and tribal organizations.

Prior to law school, Mr. Star worked for Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins in the Alaska State Legislature in Sitka and Juneau. Mr. Star received his B.A. from Northwestern University, where he wrote his undergraduate thesis on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.

Publications

• State Courts Decide State Torts: Judicial Federalism & The Costs of Climate Change: A Comment on City of Oakland v. BP PLC (9th Cir. 2020), 45 Harv. Env’t L. Rev. 196 (2021). Link