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Chambers just ranked ours as one of the country’s leading business law firms.

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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The Dickinson Wright Gaming Practice Group is the gaming industry's full-service solution to the myriad complex issues facing the national and international gaming industry. The Gaming Practice Group includes more then 25 lawyers of diverse specialties whose gaming expertise successes cover the entire spectrum of today's commercial and Indian gaming industries, nationally and internationally.

The Gaming Practice Group's lawyers have obtained gaming licenses for commercial casinos; drafted and obtained the approval of state constitution amendments and gaming legislation and regulations; prosecuted patent protections for the gaming industry; rendered advise in the complex field of internet gaming; provided comprehensive legal services in furtherance of the financing, construction and operation of casinos; represented a wide variety of gaming equipment manufacturers on a complex array of regulatory issues; defended the industry in state and federal courts in patron, labor and environmental disputes, and worked with governments and casinos developers on an international basis.

The Gaming Practice Group's lawyers have also negotiated tribal/state Indian gaming compacts and tribal/municipality casino development agreements; represented tribal interests nationwide on a wide variety of matters of critical interest to the nation's Indians; and guided developers and vendors in the intricacies of tribal sovereign nation contracting.

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Contact one of the following specialists for more information:

Robert W. Stocker II
517-487-4715 or rstocker@dickinsonwright.com

Dennis J. Whittlesey
202.659.6928 or dwhittlesey@dickinsonwright.com