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General Counsel

On a daily basis, our municipal law attorneys offer their extensive knowledge and experience in the broad array of complex legal issues facing all levels of municipal government, public entities, public officials and employees

Municipal Representation

  • City Council 

  • Village Board 

  • Town Board 

  • Plan Commission 

  • Zoning Board of Appeals 

  • Board of Review

  • Police and Fire Commission 

  • Sanitary Districts

  • Utility Districts

  • Lake Districts

  • Special Purpose Districts

  • Joint Boards and Shared Services

  • Community Development Authorities

Municipal Representaton

Land Use

  • Annexation

  • Incorporation

  • Zoning including wetland, shoreland and floodplain

  • Municipal planning

  • Comprehensive plans

  • Platting

  • Subdivisions

  • Conditional and special uses

  • Variances

  • Board of Appeals

  • Purchase and sale of real estate

  • Easements

  • Utilities and telecommunication

  • Environmental matters and disputes

Land Use

Records, Meetings, Ordinances and Actions

  • Public Records Law

  • Open Meetings Law

  • Data privacy

  • Ordinances–review, drafting and re-codification

  • Notice, publication, enforcement and constitutional standards

Record, Meetigs, Ordinances & Actions

Finance and Revenues

  • Tax Increment Financing

  • Opinions on municipal property taxes, assessments and fees

  • Borrowing

  • Levy Limits, and Referenda to Exceed

  • Special Assessments

  • Special Charges

  • Board of Review hearings and tax valuation appeals

Finances & Revenues

Contracts and Purchasing

  • Contracting

  • Intermunicipal agreements

  • Mutual aid agreements

  • Bids and specifications

  • Construction

  • Real Estate Transactions

Conracts & Purchasing

Municipal Prosecutor Services

  • Civil Infractions Actions

  • Citation Prosecution

  • Ordinance Enforcement

Muncipal Prosecurtor Services

Licensing and Regulation

  • Nuisances–regulation and abatement

  • Liquor Licensing and Regulation

  • Adult Oriented Establishment Regulation

  • Sex Offender Residency Regulation

  • Landfill Siting

  • Telecommunications Siting and Regulation

  • Wind and Solar Power Siting and Regulation

  • Blight Elimination

Licening & Regulation

Eminent Domain and Takings

  • Regulatory – avoiding inverse condemnations

  • Eminent Domain/condemnation for public purposes

  • Negotiating and Completing Acquisitions

Eminent Domain & Takings

Development and Redevelopment

  • Economic Development Authorities

  • Redevelopment Authorities

  • Development Agreements

Development & Redevelopment

General Counseling

  • Risk management

  • Defense of Claims

  • Wide Variety of Regulatory and constitutional Issues

General Counseling
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