About
Frank has nearly 30 years of enjoy representing tribal governments and entities in a huge range of tribal, federal and kingdom law topics, with an emphasis on sovereignty and jurisdictional issues. Frank’s practice includes appellate, civil and administrative litigation in tribal, federal and nation courts and corporations. He has giant enjoy advising tribal councils, developing tribal codes, ordinances, resolutions and regulations, creating tribal governmental and economic development entities, and counseling customers in all components of federal Indian law, contracts, administrative regulation, employment troubles, and environmental regulation, among other regions. Frank has written severa amicus curie briefs for Tribes, the National Congress of American Indians, the National Indian Gaming Association, and the California Nations Indian Gaming Association, in Indian regulation instances on the United States Supreme Court, federal circuit courts of attraction, federal district courts, and state ideal and appellate courts. Frank’s practice has targeted on advocating for Tribes in regions of overlapping jurisdiction amongst federal, country, neighborhood and tribal governments.
Prior to forming the Law Office of Frank Lawrence, Frank changed into a Partner in the Indian Law Practice Group at Holland & Knight LLP, beginning in 2000. Before that he served as an accomplice at Indian Law boutique companies. While in non-public practice, Frank additionally taught federal Indian regulation, prison writing and ethics as an adjunct professor of law on the University of California Davis School of Law. In addition to U.C. Davis Law School, he has lectured on federal Indian regulation on the McGeorge School of Law, California State University, Sacramento, National Indian Gaming Association Conferences, Western Indian Gaming Conferences, and G2E, the Global Gaming Expo, among other venues.
Before coming into non-public exercise, Frank served as the first law clerk to the Honorable David F. Levi (ret.), U.S. Dist. Ct for the Eastern Dist. of CA.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Native American Law
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
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Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Owner
Law Office of Frank Lawrence
2013 - Partner, Indian Law
Holland and Knight LLP
2000 - Associate, Indian Law
Levine & Associates
1994 - Associate, Indian Law
Dickstein & Merin
1991 - Law Clerk to the Hon. David F. Levi
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
1990 - Law Clerk to the Hon. Lawrence K. Karlton
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
1989 - Law Clerk to the Hon. Raul A. Ramirez
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
1989 - Extern to the Hon. Stanley Mosk
California Supreme Court
1988
Educations
Graduation year: 1986
Graduation year: 1979
