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Scott W. Howard

Principal with the firm, Scott specializes in brownfield redevelopment, environmental litigation, municipal law, real estate transactions, land use, and appellate work.

Scott is a graduate of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, and a cum laude graduate of Wayne State University Law School. He is also a member of the Order of the Coif, an honorary society recognizing outstanding academic achievement in the study of law.

Before joining Olson, Bzdok & Howard, Scott spent two years clerking for the Honorable Michael F. Cavanagh, Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Scott is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the Environmental Law Section, the Real Property Section, and the Appellate Law Section. He is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association.

He has published in the areas of brownfield redevelopment and international law.

E-mail: scott@envlaw.com

Judicial Clerkship

  • Fall 1997 to Fall 1999:
    Law clerk for Justice Michael F. Cavanagh
    Michigan Supreme Court
    Lansing, Michigan

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Publications

  • "Brownfield Redevelopment: Keeping an Eye on the Public Interest" with James M. Olson. Planning and Zoning News, April 2000, at 14.

  • "Terrorism, Aliens, and Due Process"
    Michigan International Lawyer
    (Spring 1996 at 19.)
  • "Limited Development Through Environmental Thresholds"
    Building Sustainable Communities Regional Cooperation Series
    (The Global cities Project 1993, No. R207, 1993)

  • "Coordinate Growth and Transportation"
    Building Sustainable Communities Regional Cooperation Series
    (The Global cities Project 1993,No. R208, 1993)

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Appellate Decisions

Scott has appeared as an attorney or co-attorney of record in the following appellate decisions:

  • Glen Lake–Crystal River Watershed Riparians v Glen Lake Ass’n
    264 Mich App 523; 695 NW2d 508
    (2004)

  • Township of Bingham v RLTD Railroad Corporation
    ___ Mich ___ (SC Docket No. 115602)

  • Friends of the Crystal River v Kuras Properties
    (SC Docket No. 107283)
  • Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation v Nestle Waters North American Inc.
    2005 WL 3193717; Mich.App.,2005.
    Nov 29, 2005


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Professional Associations

  • Michigan Bar Association (MBA)
    • MBA Environmental Law Section
    • MBA Real Property Section, Brownfield Redevelopent Committee
    • MBA Appellate Practice Section
  • American Bar Association (ABA)
    • ABA Section on Natural Resources, Environmental & Energy Law
  • Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association
    • Law Library Committee

     

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