Practice Areas
Municipal Law
We represent a wide variety of municipal and quasi-municipal clients in many types of settings. We represent them upon assignments to defend them against lawsuits, as special counsel for particular projects and as general counsel for their ongoing legal needs.
As general counsel, we advise entities such as towns, sanitary districts, charter schools, transit authorities and electrical cooperatives about their powers and duties, including matters such as:
- The Open Meeting Law
- The Municipal Contracting Act
- Joint powers agreements
- Financing, conflicts of interest
- Planning and zoning
We have defended school districts, towns, cities, sanitary districts and other municipalities throughout the region against claims and lawsuits, often upon assignment by their insurers. Representative clients include the Duluth Transit Authority, Arrowhead Regional Electrical Cooperative, Pike Lake Area Wastewater Collection System, Moose Lake Windemere Sanitary Sewer District and dozens of towns including Aitkinson, Beaver Bay, Duluth, Cedar Valley, Ellsburg, Embarrass, Fairbanks, Halden, Lakewood, Lutsen, Nickerson, Normanna, Tofte and Schroeder.