Who We Are
Serving nearly 200 local government entities across Missouri and Kansas state lines, we’ve worked with all types and sizes of municipalities. From city attorneys to prosecutors, to special counsel and litigation counsel, we have decades of experience with a wide variety of legal issues each city faces. Most of our attorneys have dedicated their entire practices to municipal law, coming from in-house city attorney positions, working at state administrative agencies, and from experience within the court system. Each of our attorneys is required to undertake a specific niche area within municipal law in addition to their general city attorney practice. Our goal at Lauber Municipal Law is to meld our previous experience together to provide a high-quality “big firm” work product, while providing the flexibility, personal responsiveness, and cost effectiveness of a small firm.
Our Services
Lauber Municipal Law provides general counsel (city attorney, village attorney, district attorney) services and municipal prosecutor services on an ongoing basis; or, on a project basis.
Our attorneys are well experienced in the everyday issues that arise for municipal entities:
- Drafting ordinances and code revisions
- Charter ordinances for Kansas cities
- Drafting, negotiation, review, and interpretation of contracts
- The applicability of the Kansas Open Records Act and Kansas Open Meetings Act or Missouri Sunshine Law
- City Council or Board of Aldermen procedures for conducting meetings
- Questions of authority extent of authority to impose taxes and fees, the provision of utility services
- Rules and regulations regarding the construction of public works
- The application of general election laws
We can help your city (first, second, and third class home rule cities in Kansas, and third class, fourth class, or constitutional charter cities in Missouri), town, village, fire protection district, ambulance district, water and sewer district, or other governmental entity or political subdivision taxing jurisdiction in a wide variety of ways and provide your elected officials and administrative staff with confidence and peace of mind in conducting your government entity’s business.
Special Counsel Services
Lauber Municipal Law attorneys can also provide economic development special counsel services to guide our clients through applications for numerous types of incentives including:
- Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
- STAR Bonds
- Community Development Districts (CID)
- Transportation Development Districts (TDD)
- Neighborhood Improvement Districts (NID)
- Neighborhood Revitalization Act Projects
- Urban Redevelopment Corporations (Chapter 353)
- MoDESA
- Enhanced Enterprise Zones (EEZ)
- Sales tax exemption for construction materials
- Property Tax Abatements
- Sales Tax Sharing Agreements
- Economic Development Policy Creation
Additional Services & Support
Special Counsel
We are available on a special counsel basis for large projects including annexation, land use planning and zoning law updates, public works bidding and contract review, and numerous types of training seminars for elected officials and administrative staff, both from a general perspective and in a department-specific format.
Litigation
Our litigation practice area provides a full array of litigation services for governmental entities who find themselves as plaintiffs or defendants. Our deep bench of attorneys and experienced paralegals allow us to provide cost-effective representation of all types of municipal litigation. Our litigation team also serves as insurance defense counsel to municipal risk pools with memberships comprised of our clients and potential clients.
Support Services
Our Administrative Team also provides client-facing, value-added services. Our prosecution paralegal manages citations and dockets for numerous prosecution clients, which creates efficiencies and cost savings for our clients and reduces the need for prosecutor interaction with defendants and defense counsel. Our litigation paralegals, legal assistants, and human resources manager have served clients in numerous cost effective roles like interim city clerk services and recruitment for client hiring purposes.
Meet Our Members
With over fifteen attorneys across three offices, we utilize the previous experiences of each attorney and together provide a breadth of high-quality, “big-firm” services. In addition, we offer the flexibility, personal responsiveness and cost-effectiveness of a small firm.
Representative Clients
With nearly 200 clients represented in both Missouri and Kansas, we have represented small communities as well as larger municipalities.
Let's Start the Conversation
Whether your municipality is needing us as city attorney, prosecutor, special counsel or litigation counsel, we’re ready to serve and support you.