How Many Lawyers Does it Take to Register a Business on the Navajo Nation?
Published in the Navajo Times on August 6, 2020 This isn’t a lawyer joke, and the answer is two lawyers: one an enrolled member who practices in Navajo Nation and owns a business, and the other a former Navajo Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer. Yes, you read that correctly, but it bears repeating. It took two lawyers to figure out what paperwork to fill out, prepare, and send to the Division of Economic Development (DED) to register a business in the Navajo Nation. This was