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Awards aren’t everything in the legal profession. Still, when you have been selected as one of the country’s leading business law firms - as Dickinson Wright has - it tells you something. Especially when you consider that Chambers does such extensive research in every state to determine the best business lawyers in the country.
And when you consider that 11 of our lawyers achieved individual recognition in five featured practice areas, it just substantiates everything we have been known for since 1878 - credibility, creativity, depth of experience and intellectual firepower. Put our reputation to work for you and let us add value to your enterprise.
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Gaming
Expanded Description
With offices throughout Michigan and in Washington, D.C., as well as an association with the Ramirez Law Firm in Macau, the Dickinson Wright Gaming Practice Group has expertise that covers the entire spectrum of today's gaming industry - commercial, Indian, lottery, international and internet - backed by 240-plus lawyers who bring to the table the wide array of legal talent and business expertise that a sophisticated gaming business requires.
Dickinson Wright lawyers were at the forefront of the entry of casino gaming into Michigan. They have drafted state and international country gaming laws and regulations; drafted and oversaw the successful voter approval of an amendment of the 1963 Michigan Constitution designed to protect Michigan's commercial and Indian casino industry from encroachment by the State; obtained the casino licenses for two of Detroit's three commercial casinos; negotiated tribal/state gaming compacts; protected casinos against environmental attacks; represented tribes seeking federal recognition; negotiated tribal/municipality gaming development agreements throughout the United States; represented a multitude of gaming companies (both operator and manufacturer) in regulatory proceedings; prosecuted patents and otherwise protected gaming intellectual property rights; successfully defended the gaming industry in litigation in state and federal courts on multiple occasions involving patron, labor and contract disputes; performed the broad range of legal tasks associated with the financing and construction of state of the art casinos; challenged wrongful taxation; and represented the industry in a broad range of human resource issues.
Great Lawyers, Great Law Firm is not just a catchy phrase - it is a reality at Dickinson Wright PLLC.
Administrative And Regulatory
Indian Casinos
Casino Development
Casino Operations
Gaming Equipment Manufacturers
Non-Gaming Suppliers and Vendors
Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
For more information, please contact:
H. Scott Althouse
Indian, Regula