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Overview
Dykema has a well-regarded, highly effective administrative law and regulation practice. Through relationships established by our seasoned team of attorneys and government policy advisors, we are successful in shaping public policy through both administrative and legislative channels. With offices strategically located in Washington, D.C., Lansing, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois, we assist our clients in all aspects of the administrative process at the federal and state levels. This includes representation before federal and state Cabinet-level departments, executive branch agencies, independent agencies and commissions, and in the courts.
The listing below describes the types of administrative law and regulatory services we provide. For information regarding our agency-related practice in specific, substantive areas of law (e.g., antitrust/trade regulation, environmental law, government contracts), please consult our practice descriptions for those disciplines.
Specific services we provide include:
- Advising clients on compliance with agency rules, regulations and policies
- Representing clients in the rulemaking process, including drafting and commenting on rules, regulations, guidelines and policy statements
- Preparing requests for advisory opinions, declaratory rulings, or other agency interpretations
- Reviewing final agency rules for possible judicial challenge
- Litigating challenges to agency rules
- Representing clients in agency adjudications
- Preparing applications for licenses and permits
- Preparing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
- Preparing requests for confidential agency treatment of client information under FOIA
- Litigating FOIA and Open Meeting Act disputes
- Participating in development of mandatory and voluntary standards
- Responding to agency investigations and audits
- Negotiating consent decrees
- Participating in industry coalitions to address specific agency issues
- Representing clients before Congress and state legislatures on agency reauthorization, agency oversight, and specific agency-related issues pending before legislative committees
News
- May 6, 2016
- April 3, 2014
- July 8, 2013
- June 17, 2013
- May 28, 2013
Press Releases
- March 3, 2021
- January 12, 2021
- January 1, 2021
- November 5, 2020
- September 18, 2020
- August 20, 2020
- August 12, 2020
- November 1, 2019
- August 22, 2019
- August 15, 2019
- January 23, 2019
- November 9, 2018
- November 1, 2018
- September 7, 2018
- August 15, 2018
- February 13, 2018
- November 1, 2017
- September 5, 2017
- August 15, 2017
- June 12, 2017
- November 1, 2016
- September 1, 2016
- August 15, 2016
- November 2, 2015
- August 18, 2015
- August 3, 2015
- November 3, 2014
- August 13, 2014
- June 17, 2013
- October 5, 2012
Events & Speaking Engagements
- March 24, 2021
- 'Cause you Know We're All About the Lists: The Checklists!, Seventh Annual NMLS User Conference & Training, San Diego, CaliforniaFebruary 2015
- Managing Company Risk: CPSC Administrative Litigation, American Conference InstituteJune 26, 2013
- Pre-Notifications and NMLS, Fourth Annual NMLS User Conference & Training, Scottsdale, ArizonaFebruary 2012
- NMLS Application Processing on Steroids (Regulators Only), Second Annual NMLS User Conference & Training, San Diego, CaliforniaFebruary 2010
Articles & Alerts
- February 9, 2021
- January 28, 2021
- March 20, 2020
- March 16, 2020
- May 7, 2019
- The Small Business Administration May Now Review Center for Veterans Enterprise Protests and AppealsOctober 17, 2018
- March 13, 2015
- June 16, 2014
- October 1, 2013
- November 13, 2012