For nearly 25 years the Dorsey Indian and Gaming practice has provided services nationwide to Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments and to clients doing business with Indian Tribes. The group is rated one of the best Native American Law practices (Rank 1) in the United States by Chambers and Partners.
Dorsey Indian and Gaming attorneys include tribal and non-tribal members representing Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, their commercial entities, and lenders, developers and others doing business with tribes on issues of economic diversification, financing (both taxable and tax-exempt), project development, taxation, environmental affairs, litigation and regulatory compliance. Dorsey also represents both tribal and non-tribal clients in transactional, regulatory and gaming work.
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For nearly 25 years the Dorsey Indian and Gaming practice has provided services nationwide to Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments and to clients doing business with Indian Tribes. The group is rated one of the best Native American Law practices (Rank 1) in the United States by Chambers and Partners.
Dorsey Indian and Gaming attorneys include tribal and non-tribal members representing Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, their commercial entities, and lenders, developers and others doing business with tribes on issues of economic diversification, financing (both taxable and tax-exempt), project development, taxation, environmental affairs, litigation and regulatory compliance. Dorsey also represents both tribal and non-tribal clients in transactional, regulatory and gaming work.
Representative work includes:
- Federal recognition
- Gaming and economic development financing
- Governmental and tax-exempt financing
- Federal, state and tribal tax advice, planning and compliance
- Litigation in federal, state and tribal courts, arbitration and mediation
- Business structuring and diversification, including Section 8(a) contracting
- Contract negotiation
- Congressional and executive branch representation
- Employment, retirement plans and fringe benefits
- Labor organization and employment issues
- Land acquisition, land use regulation and fee-to-trust transfers
- Gaming development and regulation
- Governmental matters and social services
- Alaska native matters
- Intergovernmental relations
- Environmental matters and cultural resources
The group’s attorneys are active in NCAI, NIGA, ATNI, USET, and other inter-tribal organizations, and are frequent speakers at inter-tribal conferences, tribal economic development conferences and continuing legal education and similar conferences on the subjects of current matters facing Indian country.
Dorsey Indian and Gaming attorneys also represent:
- Business clients retained by or doing business with Indian tribes, including commercial banks, investment banking firms and developers involved in financing, developing or managing economic development projects, as well as manufacturers and distributors of gaming equipment and operators of gaming facilities, both within Indian country and elsewhere.
- Financial sources, gaming device manufacturers and distributors, gaming developers and operators and clients involved in Internet gaming proposals and other activities which trigger issues under federal or state gaming laws
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