Municipal Law

Detroit Municipal Law Attorney

Sommers Schwartz has more than forty years of experience representing counties, cities, townships, and other government entities in Michigan. Our lawyers serve as general corporation counsel, and assist on special projects. The law firm's municipal law practice provides broad and substantial professional services encompassing a full array of municipal law matters.

To schedule a consultation regarding a municipal legal question, contact Sommers Schwartz by phone or e-mail.

Our municipal law attorneys have handled many legal issues on behalf of municipal governments including:

• Employee relations
  • Collective bargaining
    • Labor and employment litigation and/or arbitration
• Municipal regulation
  • Charter and ordinance drafting and enforcement
• Criminal prosecutions
• Environmental regulations, enforcement, and disputes
  • Clean-up of rivers and lakes
  • Ground contamination
  • Water pollution
• Zoning and planning
• Commercial and inter-municipal contract negotiation
  • Telecommunications
  • Water and sewer usage
• Home rule powers
• Premises liability in injury cases on municipal property

Sommers Schwartz works extensively in federal and state litigation and appellate cases on constitutional issues, including:

• First amendment
• Due process
• Equal protection
• Statutory and charter interpretation
• Environmental and construction issues
• OFIA and Open Meetings Act
• Manufactured home communities
• Basement flooding
• Land use disputes

Professionals, employers, private individuals, businesses, and government bodies entrust legal matters to the Southfield, Michigan, law firm of Sommers Schwartz with confidence. Sommers Schwartz has the knowledge, the logistical resources, and the financial strength necessary to see a municipal law case through to a satisfactory conclusion.

Contact the law firm through this Web site to schedule a meeting with an attorney.