M. Benjamin Machlis
Dorsey & Whitney LLP has hired M. Benjamin Machlis as a partner in the firm’s Regulatory Affairs Group in Salt Lake City. Machlis’ practice focuses primarily on natural resources and environmental compliance, rulemaking, permitting, administrative appeals, litigation and transactional matters. Machlis joins Dorsey from Holland & Hart LLP. Prior to that, he was an associate at Holme Roberts & Owen and served as a policy advisor in the Utah Governor’s Office of Public Land Policy Coordination. Machlis has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and a J.D. degree from the university’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.