Municipal Law

• Municipal Liability and Risk Management
• Budgets and Contracts
• Municipal Planning Strategy

With extensive experience in the highly specialized and complex field of Municipal Law, our attorneys know the intricacies of the workings of local governments and the services they provide. We counsel and advise our clients to ensure that appropriate practices are used in areas that cross the lines of many legal disciplines.

Currently representing over 50 cities, villages, towns, counties, fire districts, school districts and municipalities throughout New York State, we provide legal expertise in property acquisition and sale, eminent domain disputes, zoning ordinance and enforcement, and statutory interpretation and enforcement. We are able to assist our clients in ensuring that proper procedures are used in passing ordinances, drafting municipal resolutions, budgets, and contracts, administrating levies and bond issues, and awarding permits and licenses.