LANSING, MICHIGAN

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Situated on Michigan's political pulse, Warner Norcross & Judd's Lansing office is one of the Firm's five full-service offices located throughout the state.

The Lansing presence gives Warner's growing Government Affairs Practice Group a base of operations in the heart of the state’s political decision-making arena and easy access to lobbyists, political action committees, legislators and state government agencies.

The office is staffed with attorneys and support personnel who are technologically linked with our Grand Rapids, Southfield, Holland and Muskegon offices to take advantage of the intellectual capital of the entire firm. Our Lansing attorneys have experience in government affairs, election law, lobbying, administrative law, campaign finance and other related matters. We are actively seeking associates and summer associates to practice in our Lansing office.

The Lansing area, which is made up of the counties of Clinton, Eaton and Ingham, is full of work and play opportunities. Its population of approximately 450,000 is spread across a number of smaller towns, yet it's also home to the Big Ten's Michigan State University and several General Motors plants. More vehicles (400,000 annually) are built in Lansing than in any other city in the United States. Combined with state government, the Lansing economy’s "triple threat" makes for a diverse and vibrant metropolitan living area. A mature network of interstate roadways connects the area with virtually all of the other population centers of the state, usually an hour's drive or less away. Lansing residents' typical drive time between home and work is less than 20 minutes.

Cultural and educational opportunities are plentiful throughout the region. Festivals and celebrations are almost non-stop at the community level, while MSU draws Broadway productions and other world-class performances to its Wharton Center for the Performing Arts.

For avid sports fans, the MSU Spartans regularly produce championship-caliber teams in a variety of sports, and the Lansing Lugnuts, a Class A affiliate of Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays, play in beautiful Oldsmobile Park in downtown Lansing. Plus, Detroit's professional sports teams are less than a two-hour drive away.

MSU is naturally the center of the education sector in the Lansing region, with nearly 45,000 students enjoying a park-like campus of about 2,000 contiguous acres. An additional 5,000 acres of research farms and woodlots are connected to the south of the main campus. Students come from more than 100 countries. The university has strengths in many fields, from business, education, and engineering, to the life sciences (including three medical schools), high-energy physics and agriculture. Many campus centers and institutes are multidisciplinary in nature, created to move information and new knowledge into business and social applications in keeping with the university's land grant mission.

Cooley Law School, which is the nation's largest law school, also calls Lansing home.

For these reasons and many others, Lansing recently earned the "Five Star Quality of Life Quotient" rating from Expansion Management magazine, and was the only Michigan area to earn such a distinction. Economic stability, affordable housing, qualified work force, advanced education systems and a low cost of living contributed to this high honor.