Cherrin Law Group, P.C.
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Daniel Cherrin
Over the past ten years, Daniel Cherrin has developed a unique practice that combines law, public policy and strategic communications to assist clients in achieving their business goals through legislation or regulation, while minimizing the risk to their corporate reputation. This includes a practice centered on homeland security and U.S.-Canadian relations.
Cherrin has direct experience in managing all aspects of a legislative, regulatory and litigation practice while overseeing small claims court mediations and resolving bi-national policy disputes affecting homeland security in the United States and Canada. As a lobbyist, he has mediated policy disputes between the operators of international border crossings and the Department of Homeland Security. And he has successfully created and implemented comprehensive and strategic communication plans which have enabled clients to mitigate their exposure and therefore risk to litigation.
Cherrin has developed a successful track record of positive legislative accomplishments for his clients around issues affecting homeland security, economic development and workforce related issues. For example:
Before focusing his practice on legislative and regulatory affairs, Cherrin was a litigator and an appellate attorney in Michigan. As a litigator he represented professional service providers in insurance disputes. He also served as General Counsel to StartupNation, a multimedia start-up company, where he was responsible for preparing and participating in the negotiation of various contracts relating to radio, new media, strategic partnerships and general agreements between vendors and sponsors.
His extensive experience in legally guiding clients through various legal, political and regulatory issues, in addition to negotiating contracts and ensuring compliance with local, state and federal law will be a tremendous asset to your firm and clients.
He currently provides pro bono work to the Legal Aid and Defender Association and the Epilepsy Legal Defense Fund. And currently serves on the board of directors for the Engineering Society of Detroit and is a past president of Childhelp. Cherrin also volunteers his professional time for OUInc. and serves as the Chairman of a homeland security start-up company. Cherrin also is a member of the Detroit Regional Chamber, Troy Chamber and Michigan Society of Association Executives. And in 2008, Cherrin was invited to become a member of the Society of Industry Leaders, which is affiliate with the S&P.
Recent Speaking engagements include:
Daniel Cherrin
Over the past ten years, Daniel Cherrin has developed a unique practice that combines law, public policy and strategic communications to assist clients in achieving their business goals through legislation or regulation, while minimizing the risk to their corporate reputation. This includes a practice centered on homeland security and U.S.-Canadian relations.
Cherrin has direct experience in managing all aspects of a legislative, regulatory and litigation practice while overseeing small claims court mediations and resolving bi-national policy disputes affecting homeland security in the United States and Canada. As a lobbyist, he has mediated policy disputes between the operators of international border crossings and the Department of Homeland Security. And he has successfully created and implemented comprehensive and strategic communication plans which have enabled clients to mitigate their exposure and therefore risk to litigation.
Cherrin has developed a successful track record of positive legislative accomplishments for his clients around issues affecting homeland security, economic development and workforce related issues. For example:
- Secured language in the FY08 Defense Authorization bill (H.R. 1585, House Rpt 110-477) prohibiting the Department of Defense from not only selling F-14 parts, but also “any tooling or dies used in the manufacture of such aircraft or parts.” But
- Secured language in the FY08 Defense Authorization bill (H.R. 1585, House Rpt 110-477) encouraging the Defense Department to destroy any remaining F-14s and sell the resultant scrap as appropriate.
- Changed the content of legislation away from border crossings and onto the transportation and logistics environment in the state of Michigan as a result of active participation in legislative working group sessions.
Successfully lobbied the Department of Homeland Security to add two NEXUS lanes at the Detroit Windsor Tunnel. - Successfully lobbied Congress to include authorization language in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill directing funds to the Northern Border.
- Successfully lobbied DHS (Office of Field Operations, Trade) to delay the implementation of the Trade Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-210, 116 Stat. 933, enacted 8/6/2002, 19 U.S.C. 2071), as it relates to advance electronic cargo information and the use of the PAPS process, a mandatory release process for truck carriers at land border ports of entry, while maintaining BRASS, a line-release system for commercial goods, until DHS can implement a variation of Free and Secure Trade (FAST) at the Detroit Windsor Tunnel.
- Facilitated a public-private partnership between the Detroit Windsor Tunnel and DHS that increased capacity at the Tunnel and other land border crossings by 25%.
- Obtained $850,000 in federal funding for the Detroit Area Regional Transit Authority (DARTA), before DARTA was even established, resulting in 100 percent funding for start up costs.
- Strategically counseled the President and CEO of a financial services company and their attorney through a crisis involving ambush journalism by being proactive in creating key messages to deliver to the company’s staff, clients and vendors.
- Strategically counseled a doctor and his lawyer through a crisis involving the U.S. Department of Justice and the Food and Drug Administration, avoiding any negative publicity by targeting a locally respected health reporter and targeting trade publications to build grassroots support for the doctor.
- Created media strategy to assist a professional hockey player reemerge from bankruptcy on behalf of his business partner by securing a story in The Detroit News and an exclusive on WXYZ (ABC-TV).
Before focusing his practice on legislative and regulatory affairs, Cherrin was a litigator and an appellate attorney in Michigan. As a litigator he represented professional service providers in insurance disputes. He also served as General Counsel to StartupNation, a multimedia start-up company, where he was responsible for preparing and participating in the negotiation of various contracts relating to radio, new media, strategic partnerships and general agreements between vendors and sponsors.
His extensive experience in legally guiding clients through various legal, political and regulatory issues, in addition to negotiating contracts and ensuring compliance with local, state and federal law will be a tremendous asset to your firm and clients.
He currently provides pro bono work to the Legal Aid and Defender Association and the Epilepsy Legal Defense Fund. And currently serves on the board of directors for the Engineering Society of Detroit and is a past president of Childhelp. Cherrin also volunteers his professional time for OUInc. and serves as the Chairman of a homeland security start-up company. Cherrin also is a member of the Detroit Regional Chamber, Troy Chamber and Michigan Society of Association Executives. And in 2008, Cherrin was invited to become a member of the Society of Industry Leaders, which is affiliate with the S&P.
Recent Speaking engagements include:
- Lobbying Laws: Vulnerability, risk and opportunity, Michigan Society of Association Executives, Lansing, Mich. (March 2008)
- Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007: What corporations and in house counsel need to know, a presentation for Ulmer Berne, Cleveland, OH (April 2008)
- Finding Advocates in Congress for Government Contractors, The Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), Livonia, MI, June 12, 2008. https://ptacofsc.ecenterdirect.com.
