About me
Mike Gentine, a former senior counsel with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), advises manufacturers, retailers and other commercial clients on product safety and consumer protection issues. He is especially skilled with legal, regulatory, enforcement, and penalty matters before various agencies, including the CPSC and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and policy advancement at the state and federal levels. Mr. Gentine also has extensive product recall experience in multiple international jurisdictions and across agency proceedings, stakeholder organizations and trade associations.
Prior to joining Arnold and Porter, Mr. Gentine had an extensive career across the legal and public policy arenas, serving as in-house regulatory counsel and government relations manager for Polaris, in private practice and in the federal government. His government service comprises multiple positions at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), including senior counsel for the Office of CPSC Commissioner Joseph P. Mohorovic from 2014–2017, where he advised on various policy, regulatory and ethics issues, as well as reform initiatives such as reducing the paperwork burden on CPSC-regulated companies.
Before that at the CPSC, he was a legal fellow and a law clerk in the Office of Commissioner Nancy Nord. Mr. Gentine’s other government-related work includes externships with the US Senate Judiciary Committee and the US Navy Judge Advocate General Corps (JAGC).
