Scott W. Howard

E-mail: scott@envlaw.com

• Community Involvement
• Publications
• Appellate Decisions
• Professional Presentations

Scott’s practice areas include real estate law; municipal law; zoning; and conservation easements and natural resource protection. Before joining Olson & Howard, Scott spent two years clerking for the Honorable Michael F. Cavanagh, Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Scott is a cum laude graduate of Wayne State University Law School and the James Madison College at Michigan State University. When he is not practicing law, Scott can be found cross-country skiing, riding his bike or looking for the next outdoor adventure with his family.

Community Involvement and Professional Associations

• TART Trails Board of Directors and Past President

• Norte Youth Cycling Board of Directors

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)

Appellate Decisions

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

• Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation v Nestle Waters North American Inc.
  269 Mich App 25; 709 NW2d 174(2005); aff'd in part, rev'd inpart 479 Mich 280; 737 NW2d 447 (2007). 
• National Wildlife Federation v. Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co.,
  471 Mich 608; 684 NW2d 800 (2004).
• 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
  463 Mich 634, 624 NW2d 725 (2001).
• Friends of the Crystal River v Kuras Properties
  456 Mich. 950 (1998); recons'd 459 Mich 899 (1999); appl dism'd 465 Mich. 899 (2001).

Professional Presentations

• Ask an Attorney Program (Heart of the Lakes Center for Land Conservation Policy “Advancing Conservancy Excellence” Program, February - April 2009).
• Mineral and gas rights effect on conservation easements: Tips for minimizing damage and traps to avoid (Conservation Defense Network, June 2008).
• Leftover Environmental Liabilities -- What's Not Covered by Your Prospective Purchaser Agreement (National Brownfields Conference Legal Symposium, May 2008).
• Mineral Rights and Land Conservation in the Midwest Online Training (Land Trust Alliance, March 2008).
• Mineral Rights and Land Conservation in the Midwest (Midwest Land Conservation Conference, March 2008).
• Conservation Easement Best Practices Panel Discussion (Heart of the Lakes Center for Land Conservation Policy Third Annual Member Summit, December 2007).
• Forests With Handrails? The ADA and Land Preservation (Land Trust Rally, October 2007).
• Brownfield Redevelopment Panel Project Discussion (Michigan Brownfield Conference, July 2005).
• Conservation Easements and Estate Planning (Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy, June 2005).