Mara E. Michaletz

Mara Michaletz provides advice and advocacy for clients facing complex business, healthcare, probate, and insurance coverage decisions and disputes. Her practice also includes litigation of tort liability, civil rights, unfair trade practices claims, and medical malpractice defense. Mara has advocated on behalf of her clients in most judicial districts and at all trial and appellate court levels in Alaska state courts, in the Alaska and D.C. federal district courts, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mara also counsels clients on administrative law and regulatory compliance in the areas of healthcare, election, and municipal law. Prior to joining the firm, as a trial attorney in the Anchorage District Attorney’s Office, Mara tried dozens of jury trials throughout Alaska, prosecuting domestic violence, property, and homicide cases. Mara has studied and lived abroad in Germany, the Netherlands, England, and Sweden, and is proud to have called Alaska home since clerking for the Honorable Peter Michalski of the Anchorage Superior Court in 2006. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Mara E. Michaletz included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Alaska Business Magazine, "Alaska's Legal Elite," Appellate Law (2024), Healthcare Law (2025) Thomson Reuters, “Alaska Super Lawyer,” Business Litigation, 2025-present Other Sources of Feedback About Mara E. Michaletz Included on the 2025Alaska Super Lawyers list

• Partner

• Anchorage District Attorney’s Office, 2007 - 2013
• Honorable Peter Michalski of the Anchorage Superior Court, Clerk, 2006 - 2007
• Voting Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union, Summer Fellow, 2005 - Present
• Atlanta Public Schools, AmeriCorps Volunteer, 2002 - 2003
• Journal of Law and Inequality, Staff Editor and Outside Articles Editor, 2004 - 2006

• Board of Directors, Anchorage International Film Festival
• Anchorage International Rotary Club
• AmeriCorps Volunteer, Atlanta Public Schools, 2002-2003

• Alaska, 2008
• U.S. District Court District of Alaska, 2015
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2018

• Alaska Bar Association
• Alaska Bar Association (Law Examiners Committee)
• Alaska Bar Association (Torts and Personal Injury Law Section)
• Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers
• Anchorage International Rotary Club