Skillfully managing a broad, multifaceted practice, Mr. Brauer assists clients with environmental and economic development matters across many industries, including the agribusiness, automotive, manufacturing, resource-use, energy, mining, and real estate development sectors. He establishes rapport with his clients early on and forges strong relationships that enhance his ability to represent them as effectively as possible.

Mr. Brauer serves not only many Michigan- and Great Lakes region-based companies, but organizations across the country and around the world as well. Clients include developers and nonprofit environmental organizations, alternative energy producers and equipment manufacturers, transportation and logistics companies, retail centers, mining operations, and businesses in the food production, high-tech manufacturing, and aerospace industries.

His expertise encompasses all manner of environmental issues, including regulatory compliance, site investigation, cleanup and closure, solid and hazardous waste, due diligence, permitting, wetland and critical habitat protection and mitigation, and adaptive reuse. Mr. Brauer helps many clients secure brownfield redevelopment and business expansion incentives. He draws on his deep experience identifying, securing, and monetizing federal, state, and local economic development incentives to facilitate the use and adaptive reuse of properties. Particularly adept at devising creative solutions, he is always gratified to resolve both novel and standard environmental issues.

He truly enjoys guiding clients in these large public projects, which generate jobs and enhance the local tax base. Mr. Brauer views these community-investment efforts as a “win” for all parties, including the client, the municipality, state, and region.

Mr. Bunch is a lead consultant with 5 Lakes Energy, where he leads a team of expert witnesses and analysts representing public interest clients in utility regulation proceedings. He also serves as Executive Director of the Michigan Municipal Association for Utility Issues (MI-MAUI), which provides technical support and a collective voice to local governments to improve utility services, reduce costs, and influence utility regulatory processes.

Previously, Mr. Bunch was Executive Director of the Southeast Michigan Regional Energy Office, assisting municipalities in the Detroit metro area with identifying, financing, and implementing clean energy projects. He has 20 years of experience in sustainable enterprise research and education, having served as Managing Director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan from 2008 to 2013. Prior to that, he was a senior fellow with the Business and Society Program at The Aspen Institute, developing corporate social responsibility and sustainability programs at business schools in China.

From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Bunch served as Executive Director of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute near Seattle, Washington, the first independent graduate school of sustainable business in the United States. From 1996 to 2003, he was Business Education Director at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC, supporting the development of teaching and research programs on environment and sustainability at business schools worldwide. Between college and graduate school, he worked with Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) organizations in DC, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Washington State, culminating in a three-year tenure as Executive Director of WashPIRG. He continues to serve on the boards of WashPIRG and the WashPIRG Foundation.

Mr. Bunch chairs the Planning Commission in Ann Arbor Charter Township, Michigan, which recently completed its updated master plan, including updates to transportation, infrastructure, open space, agriculture, and water goals, as well as strengthened provisions to reduce nuisances related to noise, light, and traffic.He holds an MBA with an Environmental Management certificate from the University of Washington and a BS in Political Science from Yale University. Mr. Bunch and his family reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Mr. Hall’s expertise is in environmental and water law, and his research focuses on issues of environmental governance, federalism, and transboundary pollution and resource management. He joined the Wayne Law faculty in 2005. For the 2014-15 academic year, he served as the Law School’s associate dean for student affairs. Previously, he taught at the University of Michigan Law School and was an attorney with the National Wildlife Federation, where he managed the Great Lakes Water Resources Program for the nation’s largest conservation organization. Mr. Hall also worked in private practice for several years, representing a variety of business and public-interest clients in litigated and regulatory matters. He has extensive litigation experience and numerous published decisions in state and federal courts. Mr. Hall continues to represent a variety of clients in significant environmental policy disputes. From 2016-2019, he served as special assistant attorney general for Michigan for the Flint water investigation. Mr. Hall is founder of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit environmental organization that provides legal assistance to community organizations, environmental non-governmental organizations, and local, state and regional governments. He continues to serve as the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center’s scholarship director. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, concentrating in environmental policy. After law school, Mr. Hall clerked for the Hon. Kathleen A. Blatz, chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Ms. Harrell is a litigation attorney and strategic legal consultant. During her 30+ years in practice in Michigan state and several federal courts, Ms. Harrell’s experience ranges from multimillion-dollar disputes among multi-national corporations to neighbors involved in boundary-line disputes to trust beneficiaries’ claims to an estate and everything in between. Client goals are always the priority. Because often the best result for the client is to avoid the expense and burden of litigation, she has counseled clients on how to avoid litigation or to creatively and quickly resolve disputes.

Ms. Harrell has served as a court-appointed receiver (in commercial litigation and family/domestic matters) and has represented other receivers in fulfilling their role, seeking court approvals, and strategizing and defending against claims. She also serves as a AAA/ICDR-appointed and privately-retained arbitrator and mediator in complex commercial, construction, real estate, employment, and domestic relations/trust matters.

It can be difficult, if not impossible, to decouple real estate issues from those implicating environmental concerns. With extensive experience and deep insights into both areas of the law, Mr. Schebor is uniquely positioned to deliver comprehensive counsel for clients who must address such intersecting matters, whether in the context of transactions, disputes, or enforcement actions.

Mr. Schebor’s immersion into environmental law and related issues predates his legal career. Accordingly, he focused on developing a combination of legal and scientific knowledge that now serves his clients so well. Those clients are in the energy, waste disposal, petroleum, manufacturing, and other sectors that must deal with the unique challenges of ever-changing regulatory requirements and law.

Mr. Stokan has represented Michigan municipalities on matters related to civil rights violations, local ordinance issues and reviews, land use and zoning laws, related constitutional claims, and real estate transactions for 25 years. Mr. Stokan’s work has included assisting clients in developing internal policies and procedures, municipal charter reviews, and municipal contracts, in addition to handling requests related to the Freedom of Information Act and Open Meetings Act claims. His practice has also included successfully defending municipalities in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Stokan additionally has experience defending attorneys against legal malpractice claims and representing insurance carriers in first- and third-party automobile claims. He also represents physicians and health care facilities in medical malpractice actions.

While attending the George Washington University Law School, Mr. Stokan worked for U.S. Representative James Barcia. He also served as a law clerk in the appellate division for the Michigan Attorney General and as a prosecuting attorney for the Charter Township of Northville.

Mr. Stokan obtained his law degree from George Washington University and his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University.