Primary Areas of Practice: Municipal Law with an emphasis on Environmental, Utility and Boundary Issues

Lawrie Kobza teams up with municipalities to help them handle complex legal issues involving environmental, utility and boundary issues. Lawrie helps her municipal clients identify their goals, develop a strategy to reach them, and then take the steps needed to get there.

Lawrie will assist clients with whatever strategy will be most effective. She has drafted and lobbied for new legislation. She has drafted complex intergovernmental agreements. She has negotiated with state agencies, such as the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Public Service Commission and the Wisconsin Department of Justice, as well as other private parties. And, she has represented municipalities in administrative proceedings, litigation and subsequent appeals.

Lawrie works on a wide variety of different complex legal issues involving the environment, water, sewer and stormwater utilities and municipal boundary issues. She has handled Superfund cases, brownfield projects and contaminated real estate purchases and sales. She has worked on a myriad of issues for water, sewer and stormwater utilities, including permitting and compliance issues. She has also worked on annexation and incorporation disputes and intergovernmental agreements between neighboring utilities.

• Serves as General Counsel to the Central Brown County Water Authority, the State of Wisconsin's first regional water authority created under legislation written by Lawrie
• Serves as Legal Counsel to the Municipal Environmental Group – Water Division, a municipal organization which lobbies on issues affecting municipal water systems
• A trustee on the American Water Works Association – Wisconsin Section's Board of Trustees
• Clerked for Federal Judge John C. Shabaz of the Western District of Wisconsin for two years
• A graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School

More about Lawrie:

When not at the office, Lawrie spends many hours cheering her three children on at their sporting events—particularly soccer.