Gruenstein & Hickey is a small Anchorage, Alaska law firm that takes pride in providing the highest quality of legal services and in exceeding the expectations of its clients through vigorous, creative and result-oriented representation. The firm has earned the highest law firm rating in Martindale-Hubbell ("AV").
Gruenstein & Hickey emphasizes representation of injured Alaskans, complex civil litigation (including class action, anti-trust, public pension and health care law) and white collar criminal defense. Among the firm’s representative clients are Providence Alaska Medical Center, Fred Meyer, Inc., Frontier Medical, Channel Construction, Inc., of Juneau and the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers (SHOPO).
Between them, Peter Gruenstein and Dan Hickey have conducted more than 100 trials. They have recovered more than $40 million on behalf of their clients in a wide variety of personal injury and other plaintiff actions – including automobile accidents, aviation accidents, serious work place injuries, ATV accidents, other injuries, public pension disputes, and wrongful terminations, among others. Both partners work directly and closely with clients and strive to build strong professional and personal relationships with clients.
Peter Gruenstein has 25 years of experience as a trial lawyer in Alaska. The Anchorage Daily News has written of him that he has a "background that suggests he has been programmed for success." That background includes experience as a top congressional aide, an investigative journalist, co-author of a widely-praised book about Alaska, and state prosecutor. Mr. Gruenstein has served on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), President of the Alaska chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and as an elected delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates.
Dan Hickey has practiced trial law in Alaska for 33 years. For 10 years (1975-85) he served as Chief Prosecutor for the State of Alaska. During that tenure he was the principal architect of Alaska’s modern criminal code. He left behind a "legacy of courage and integrity" in the Department of Law that endures to this day.*