Municipal Law/Local Government

 Our firm represents both municipalities and resident petitioners of municipalities. This provides our clients the great benefit of being able to look at zoning issues, ordinance issue or other legal issues from both sides of the issue (government and resident).

Common Issues Involving Municipal Law / Local Government Law

Some of the common issues that arise in municipal law / local government law are as follows:

• Land Use, Zoning, Land Division, Property Splits, and Boundary Line Adjustments;
• Ordinance Enforcement or Ordinance Enforcement Defense;
• Takings / Eminent Domain Issues;
• Annexation;
• Condemnation;
• Property Taxes And Tax Tribunal Proceedings;
• Constitutional Law;
• Preemption;
• Freedom Of Information Act And Open Meetings Act;
• Municipal Litigation (Lawsuits).

Consequences of Bad Legal Representation

Bad legal representation can kill the dreams of a resident to develop his/her property or of a municipality to accomplish its goals for the community. Many times our law firm has seen a resident’s petition fall flat because the resident’s attorney could only see the issues from the resident’s point of view. This resulted in the attorney failing to make arguments that would connect with and convince the municipality to grant the request. Comparatively, our law firm has seen other municipalities walk themselves into legal problems, and even scandals, because the attorney could not perceive how an action would be received by the public.

Call or email us through this website to receive honest assessment of your municipal law / local government law issues.