Mr. Ohm’s teaching, research, and outreach focus on the legal and institutional framework for planning. Mr. Ohm joined the UW faculty in 1994, and he holds a joint appointment with the University of Wisconsin Extension where he is the state specialist in land use law, environmental regulation, and growth management. He also has affiliate appointments with UW’s Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. Mr. Ohm served as chair of the Department of Urban & Regional Planning from 2008 – 2012. Prior to joining the faculty at UW, Mr. Ohm worked as an attorney for the Metropolitan Council, the regional governing body for the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. While at the Council he was involved in numerous regional planning initiatives involving land use, affordable housing, natural resources, transportation, governance, and local public service delivery. Prior to that he worked as an attorney in private practice for the Minneapolis law firm then known as Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd., where he specialized in litigation involving land use, eminent domain, and complex securities fraud. Mr. Ohm holds a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School, a Master of Arts degree in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College with majors in History and Political Science.

Attorney at Friebert, Finerty & St. John S.C.Mr. Randall’s zoning and land use experience includes rezoning, entitlement, permitting, occupancy, tax increment financing and real estate development work for owners, developers and end users. He also advises clients on other municipal and local government law matters such as alcohol beverage and other municipal licensing issues, lobbying and legislative matters on behalf of clients who will be affected by proposed municipal regulation or who are interested in shaping such proposals, and bids for governmental contracts and concessions including those containing DBE/MBE/WBE/EBE requirements. Mr. Randall has given presentations on large-scale new commercial retail development sites and on the practical and policy considerations in the licensing issuing process and enforcement proceedings. Mr. Randall and/or his firm is a member of several industry associations including the Commercial Association of Realtors – Wisconsin (CARW), the National Association for Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP), and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), as well as the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin, and the Milwaukee Bar Association. Mr. Randall was named a Super Lawyer for work in the Land Use & Zoning practice area in 2016 in the Wisconsin Super Lawyers publication and in Milwaukee Magazine after being named as a “Rising Star” between 2007 and 2014. Beginning in 2012 and most recently in 2016, he was named in The Best Lawyers in America publication and in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for his work in the Litigation – Land Use & Zoning practice area including that practice area’s “Lawyer of the Year” in 2014. Mr. Randall was named a 2013 Top Rated Lawyer by ALM’s Law.com and Martindale-Hubbell and published in the Wall Street Journal for his work in Government Law and Real Estate Law.