Jeffrey L. Jocks
Jeff practices environmental, natural resources, real estate, municipal, and zoning law. He also designs creative estate plans which include trusts, wills and powers of attorney. Jeff's clients include Michigan citizens, Michigan municipalities, and Michigan for profit and non-profit corporations.
Jeff's regular practice includes litigation in State and Federal Courts throughout Michigan. He provides his municipal clients with advice on Michigan municipal, zoning, and road law, as well as employment matters, special assessments, sewer and water, Open Meetings Act issues and Freedom of Information Act issues. Jeff's experience with riparian, water law, and beach and dock disputes, as well as road and easement disputes, has earned him clients throughout Michigan. His practice also includes residential and commercial real estate transactions, conservation easements, and oil and gas matters.
Jeff graduated summa cum laude and second in his class from Michigan State University College of Law. He was also a member and officer of the Michigan State Law Review. Jeff is currently the President of the Adams Chapter of Trout Unlimited and is also member of the Grand Traverse Watershed Center Board of Directors. He and his family live in Traverse City where they spend their time learning and playing in the Grand Traverse region's wonderful natural resources.
Jeff has published articles in property, municipal and constitutional law, and is a member of the State Bar of Michigan.
E-mail: jeff@envlaw.com
REPORTED DECISIONS:
Jeff has appeared as attorney or co-attorney of record in the following reported decisions:
Pine Bluffs Area Property Owners Association v Dewitt Landing and Dock Association,287 Mich App 690 (2010)
Dextrom v Wexford County,287 Mich App 406 (2010)
Houdek v Centerville Twp, 276 Mich App 568 (2007)
Anglers of the Au Sable, Inc v Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, 283 Mich App 115, aff'm in part and rev'd in part 488 Mich 69; dismissed as moot on rehearing 489 Mich 884 (2011).
