City
Attorney
Berkley’s City Attorney holds an important department
role providing assistance in labor relations, arbitration
matters and risk management, as well as providing legal
advice and preparation and certification of contracts,
bonds and other documents.
Meet Your City Attorney:
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Dale A. Schneider graduated from Michigan State
University in 1987 and Thomas M. Cooley Law School
in 1991. Dale has been City Attorney for the City
of Berkley since 2002. Prior to this role, Dale
was the Assistant City Attorney for the City of
Berkley from 1995 to 2002, City of Ferndale from
1991 to 1993 and the City of Southfield in 2003.
He has also served the City of Clawson as Assistant
City Attorney from 1997 to 2001 and from 2002 to
the present. Dale has practiced in the area of
Employment and Labor, Personnel Injury, Real Estate,
Appellate Work, Contracts and Workers Compensation.
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The City Attorney for the City of Berkley responsibilities
include:
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- Preparing for
and attending bi-monthly City Council Meetings
- Consulting
with the City Council or Manager at their request
- Preparing
or officially passing upon all contracts, bonds
and other instruments in writing, and certifying
before execution as to their legality and correctness of form
- Preparing
legal opinions on issues as they arise
- Assisting
in labor relations, grievance arbitration matters and risk
management affairs
- Giving legal advice
in sale of City property, street and alley vacations, easements,
lot splits and special
assessments, District Court prosecutions, Write complaints
- Filing
with the District and Circuit Courts to enforce
zoning and code ordinances, Ordinance and Resolution
preparations
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