Sarah J. Gabis Joins Bodman PLC Ann Arbor Office
07/25/23
Bodman PLC is pleased to announce that Sarah J. Gabis has joined the firm as a senior attorney in the Municipal Law and Finance Practice Group, based in Ann Arbor.
Gabis has over 15 years of experience helping public entities address a wide variety of municipal issues.
Her expertise encompasses virtually all of her municipal clients’ legal concerns. She advises township boards, city councils, brownfield authorities, downtown development authorities, planning commissions, and similar government entities on all matters relating to municipal governance. She also advises municipal clients on matters involving zoning and land use enforcement, development agreements, police departments, sewer and water infrastructure, public-private partnerships, mobile home park development and regulation, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) questions, Open Meetings Act matters, intergovernmental agreements, annexation, and Act 425 matters.
Gabis represented many municipalities in connection with municipal prosecutions and served as a state prosecutor for DuPage County, Illinois. As state prosecutor, she represented dozens of municipalities with prosecution matters and served as a member of the Law Department for the City of Chicago.
Gabis is a cum laude graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law and received an undergraduate and graduate degree from Michigan State University.
As a law student, Gabis earned a national championship as a Corboy Mock Trial fellow and participated in the American Bar Association Moot Court competition.