Contract
We assist governmental entities with navigating complex contract, grant, and regulatory processes, providing comprehensive support from bid solicitation to final audits, including dispute resolution and compliance.
Ordinances
Our attorneys focus on drafting clear, compliant municipal ordinances that align with the client’s culture and legal requirements.
Risk Management
Robbins Schwartz provides comprehensive risk management for public sector clients, educating and advising them on legal duties, immunities, and strategies to minimize risk and defend against unresolved claims.
Our attorneys advise on the full spectrum of legal issues.
Commercial Transaction
Robbins Schwartz handles a full range of legal issues in commercial transactions and building construction.
Our attorneys represent municipalities in projects of various sizes and complexity.
Business Regulations
We assist municipal clients with preparing and enforcing conduct ordinances, handling code violation proceedings, and providing counsel on liquor licensing and related enforcement issues.
Investigations
Our attorneys assist municipal clients in investigations by providing experienced legal counsel throughout the process and ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
We place a strong emphasis on teamwork, which enables us to leverage the breadth and depth of knowledge of all our attorneys, paralegals and staff.
Our Attorneys Handle:
- Bid Protests
- Contract Claim Disputes
- Labor and Employment Claims
- Regulatory Compliance
- Service Contracts
Municipalities Contract
Government contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements are complicated and highly regulated areas of the law that often draw scrutiny. As a result, governmental entities typically face challenges from the public, policymakers, and regulators.
Our municipal contract practice area provides a comprehensive range of services to the government sector to ensure that they obtain successful outcomes. We handle every stage of a claim and issues that may arise from bid and project solicitation through the final audit. Further, we handle bid protests, contract claim disputes, labor and employment claims, regulatory compliance, and service contracts.
Intergovernmental Agreements
The attorneys at Robbins Schwartz regularly negotiate, draft, and amend intergovernmental agreements for public entities. We have negotiated intergovernmental agreements between municipalities and park districts, school districts, townships, forest preserve districts, counties, and even the State of Illinois. We have also negotiated and prepared complex IGAs to accomplish a wide variety of mutual objectives, including shared use of land and improvements, shared programming, operating agreements, joint purchasing, joint financing, joint defense of claims, and others.
We are mindful that governmental contracts frequently come under significant scrutiny. Robbins Schwartz has a history of successfully assisting its municipal clients to enter business agreements with other governmental entities. The firm handles these intergovernmental agreements on the local, state, and federal levels. When disputes arise over intergovernmental agreements, we are ready to vigorously litigate on behalf of our clients.
Ordinance Violation Prosecution
Illinois government entities maintain the power to enact ordinances and prosecute violations of such ordinances. Municipalities and other state and local governmental agencies enact these ordinances to protect the health, safety and welfare of their residents. The lawyers at Robbins Schwartz provide municipalities with the resources to enact effective ordinances and work to prosecute those who violate the ordinances.
Common examples of ordinance violations that we prosecute include moving violations, parking enforcement, liquor code violations, building code violations, health code violations, noise violations, overgrown grass, and unlawful burning.
