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CALIFORNIA Sacramento Office: 2020 L Street, Suite 250 Sacramento, CA 95811 Phone: 916-441-2700 Fax: 916-441-2067 COLORADO Louisville Office: 1900 Plaza Drive Louisville, CO 80027 Phone: 303-673-9600 Fax: 303-673-9155 MICHIGAN Peshawbestown Office: 2848 Setterbo Road Peshawbestown, MI 49682 Phone: 231-631-8558 MINNESOTA Minneapolis Office: 5401 Gamble Drive Suite 280 St. Louis Park, MN 55416 Phone: 952-681-7925 Fax: 952-681-7945 NEBRASKA Omaha Office: 3610 North 163rd Plaza Omaha, NE 68116 Phone: 402-333-4053 Fax: 402-333-4761 Winnebago Office: 504 Ho-Chunk Plaza, Ste 7 P.O. Box 792 Winnebago, NE 68071 Phone: 402-878-4383 Fax: 402-878-4384 NORTH DAKOTA Mandan Office: 3730 29th Avenue Mandan, ND 58554 Phone: 303-673-9600 Fax: 701-663-5103 SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls Office: 3817 Slaten Park Drive Sioux Falls, SD 57103 Phone: 605-338-9147 Fax: 605-339-1769 Rapid City Office: 2040 W. Main, Suite 110 Rapid City, SD 57702 Phone: 605-791-1515 Fax: 605-791-1915 WASHINGTON, D.C. 1301 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 450 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: 202-450-4887 Fax: 202-450-5106

PATTY MARKS – Partner
Washington, D.C.
phone: 202.450.4887
fax: 202.450.5106
email: email me

Ms. Marks joined the firm in 2009.

PRACTICE AREAS: Tribal Government; Tribal sovereignty and self-determination; Gaming law; Jurisdiction; Land-into-trust; Federal grants and contracts; Economic development and commercial transactions; Federal debt resolution; Federal acknowledgment; Legislative and administrative representation.

ADMISSIONS: Washington, D.C.; Pennsylvania; U.S. Court of Federal Claims; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. District Court for the Western District of South Dakota.

ASSOCIATIONS: District of Columbia Bar Association; Pennsylvania Bar Association; American Bar Associations.

EDUCATION: Georgetown School of Law (J.D. 1985).

LEGAL EXPERIENCE: Ms. Marks has extensive experience in representing tribes in the areas of gaming, tribal codes and constitutions; Indian self-determination and government contracting; federal acknowledgment; federal legislation; land issues; and administrative and inter-governmental matters.

She is a former staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the American Indian Policy Review Commission. Ms. Marks was also one of the original attorneys for the National Indian Gaming Association. She has negotiated tribal/state compacts for Class III gaming in Michigan, Kansas, Arizona, North Dakota and Minnesota. She has also drafted Class II and Class III gaming ordinances and regulations implementing gaming activities, and she has prepared comments on numerous NIGC and BIA regulations. Ms. Marks has prepared necessary documents to implement management, financing, construction, oversight and operation of Class II and Class II gaming activities and she has been a featured speaker at national gaming seminars.

GUEST LECTURER: Michigan School of Law, Harvard University, Michigan State University, Catholic University School of Law, American University School of Law, Washington State Bar Association, Massachusetts State Bar Association; National Congress of American Indians; National Indian Health Board; National Indian Gaming Association.

As a Tribal Attorney, Ms. Marks has drafted numerous tribal codes and ordinances, negotiated a variety of types of funding agreements and self-determination contracts, worked with tribally owned 8(a) companies on government contracting, negotiated state/tribal agreements, and drafted and secured the passage of federal legislation and amendments to existing law. She has a twenty-five year history of working with the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, the House Committee on Resources, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and numerous other legislative bodies.