Hilary L. Vigil Associate

Hilary L. Vigil is an associate in Dykema's Lansing office. Ms. Vigil's practice focuses primarily on government policy issues in highly regulated industries. Her representative areas of practice include energy and public utility law, education law, insurance law, and law affecting nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations.

Ms. Vigil graduated summa cum laude from the Michigan State University College of Law. She was awarded a full-tuition academic-merit scholarship from the Dean Charles H. King Scholars Program for each year of attendance. While in law school, Ms. Vigil served as an intern at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for Judge David W. McKeague and in the Michigan Court of Appeals Research Division. She also served as the Senior Articles Editor of the Michigan State Law Review and received jurisprudence achievement awards for the highest class grade in Torts I, Advocacy, and Legislation. She was also a teaching assistant for Torts I.

Before attending law school, Ms. Vigil worked as an associate in the Contracts and Subsidiary Rights Department at the University of Chicago Press, where she finalized author contracts and amendments, negotiated subsidiary rights licenses, and expanded copyright permission to include electronic book rights. Before working at the University of Chicago Press, Ms. Vigil obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame.