About

Bridget Brown Powers is a skilled legal professional based totally in Petoskey, Michigan, with understanding in actual assets regulation, appellate regulation, enterprise regulation, property making plans and probate, trust administration, and municipal regulation. Learn greater approximately her historical past and revel in under. Raised in Michigan and Florida, Bridget Brown Powers has mounted her private practice of law in Petoskey, Michigan, a charming lodge community placed alongside Lake Michigan's Little Traverse Bay. While she broadly speaking serves customers in Petoskey, she additionally handles prison topics all through the State of Michigan and collaborates without-of-nation counsel whilst wanted. Bridget Brown Powers focuses on various areas of regulation, inclusive of actual property regulation, appellate law, business regulation, estate making plans and probate, accept as true with administration, and municipal regulation. She brings a wealth of experience to her exercise, having served because the City Lawyer for the City of Petoskey for several years. Additionally, she performed a key function in growing and overseeing the Paralegal Program at North Central Michigan College, wherein she served as an accessory coordinator and professor, teaching guides on actual belongings law and probate law. A good sized portion of Bridget Brown Powers' practice entails coping with appeals of trial courtroom and tribunal decisions to the Michigan Court of Appeals and the Michigan Supreme Court. She additionally represents customers in appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and turned into admitted to practice within the U.S. Supreme Court, with Chief Justice John Roberts administering her oath in 2010 in Washington D.C. With her significant enjoy and determination to her clients, Bridget Brown Powers is a trusted legal endorse inside the Petoskey network and past.

Legal Issues

Real Estate Law

Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law

Appeals & Appellate

Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Estate Planning

Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills

Municipal Law

Certificates

No Certifications

Languages

• English: Spoken, Written

Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Owner/has membership
  Brown Powers, PLLC
  2000
• City Lawyer
  City of Petoskey
  1995
• Partner
  Smith & Powers
  1994
• Associate Lawyer
  Pointner & Joseph, P.C. f/k/a Simpson Moran
  1992

Education

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