Practice Areas
Our Expertise
Legal Counsel
- City attorney
- Village attorney
- Municipal prosecutor
- General counsel
- Special counsel
- Economic development counsel
General Municipal Issues
- Drafting ordinances
- City code revisions
- Drafting and interpreting contracts
- Statutory compliance
- Authority to take actions
Elections
- Candidate filing
- Qualifications
- Notice requirements
Open Records and Meetings
- Sunshine Law (Missouri)
- KOMA and KORA (Kansas)
- Meeting records
- Police records
- Juvenile records
- Record retention requirements
- Parliamentary procedure
Employment and Human Resources
- Hirings
- Terminations
- Federal/State employees’ rights acts
- FMLA
- FLSA
- USERRA
- Benefits
- Employee Assistance
- Programs
- Retirement/Pensions
General Liability Strategy
- Sovereign immunity
- Dangerous conditions on public property
- Negligent operation of motor vehicles
- Sec. 1983 claims
Contract Compliance
- Authority
- Employment verification affidavits
- Red flag rules
- Insurance provisions
- Indemnity
Property Transactions
- Purchasing property
- Selling property
- Lease-purchase agreements
- Donations of property
- Obsolete property
Boundary Changes
- Incorporation
- Annexation
- De-annexation
Finance
- Approval of annual budgets
- Budgetary transfers between funds
- Budget amendments
- Mack’s Creek Law compliance
- Expenditure of public funds
- Investment policies and procedures
- Taxation and revenue sources
- Hancock Amendment
- Procurement policies and procedures
- Authority to impose taxes and fees
Municipal Court
- Prosecution
- Citation processing
- Transfer to Circuit Court
- Expungements
Code Enforcement
- Adoption of technical codes
- Application of building codes
- Nuisance enforcement
- Dangerous buildings enforcement
- Lien enforcement
- Administrative search warrants
Police
- Evidence storage
- Police Officer Bill of Rights
- Police Chief discipline
- Search and seizure
Fire and Ambulance
- Lease-purchase of equipment
- HIPAA
- Fire and ambulance districts
Animal Control
- Dangerous animals
- Regulatory compliance
Public Works Contracts
- Prevailing wage
- Payment and performance bonds
- Right-of-way management
Infrastructure and Utilities
- Streets and roads
- Traffic engineering
- Sanitary sewer
- Stormwater
- Water
- Electricity
- Solid waste
- Water and sewer districts
- Rate adjustments
Parks and Recreation
- Parks commissions
- Parks taxes
- Lease-purchase of equipment
Condemnation and Eminent Domain
- Negotiations
- Litigation
- Statutory compliance
Economic Development
- 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
Land Use
- Planning
- Subdivision
- Zoning
- Board of Zoning Adjustment
- Airports
- Environmental law
- Comprehensive Plan Legal Review
Litigation and Claims
- Insurance defense counsel
- General defense litigation
- Land use litigation
- Inverse condemnation
- Intergovernmental litigation
- Appellate litigation
- Proactive dispute assessment
- Impeachment
Ethics
- Incompatibility of offices
- Conflict of interest
- Appearance of impropriety
- Prohibited actions
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