Municipal Law: Pullman & Comley

Overview

Pullman & Comley offers a full range of legal services to assist town governments, departments, and authorities. Our attorneys have considerable experience representing:

Towns, boroughs and taxing districts
Police and fire departments and other state and municipal commissions, boards, agencies, authorities and officers
Residential, downtown, transit, sewer, utility, redevelopment, special services and other districts and political subdivisions

A number of our attorneys have served on municipal and state boards and commissions, and understand the importance of accountability and protocol to the entities and officers discharging their administrative duties at all levels of government. The group is multidisciplinary in nature, calling upon the experience of our labor and employment, public finance, zoning and land use, environmental, general municipal law, construction and litigation attorneys. We provide counsel on the following:

Statutory and regulatory compliance, financing and grants, freedom of information and public access requirements
Revenue collections, special legislation, utilities issues, environmental cleanups and brownfields redevelopment
Collection of real, personal, utility and other tax delinquencies from individual and corporate debtors
Writing, revising, and enforcing charters, ordinances, rules, regulations and interlocal agreements
Constitutional and jurisdictional powers as well as formation, management, consolidation and dissolution issues
Litigation, arbitration, condemnation, civil rights, labor relations and employment, and disputes with members, residents, and third parties
All aspects of municipal labor relations including public sector bargaining
Contracting, insurance coverage, computer technologies, zoning and land use, construction and governmental investigations
All aspects of land use regulation and compliance, including defense of appeals from planning and zoning commissions, zoning board of appeals, conservation commissions and inland wetland agencies
Affordable housing, open space, watercourses and riparian rights and energy production facilities

Providing Valuable Resources to Municipalities

Connecticut municipalities have come to rely upon Pullman & Comley for a full range of legal services and advice. We invite you to subscribe to our blogs, which may provide you with additional guidance on a number of key topics:

Working Together provides commentary and insights from the attorneys of Pullman & Comley’s Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits Law practice on workplace topics including labor and employment law, counseling and training, litigation, immigration law and union issues, as well as employee benefits and ERISA matters; and
Education Law Notes covers legal matters that pertain to public school districts, private schools, colleges and universities ranging from issues in academics, labor and employment and gender equality to disability rights, social media, bullying and administrative policies and procedures.

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