About Us

Born into the woods, lakes, streams and backroads of Northern Michigan, I grew up with a love and appreciation of the outdoors that so few in my profession have been afforded. Burt, Mullett, Black and Lakes Huron and Michigan were at my doorstep as well as the wildlife and so many rivers and streams. Although I currently love and make my home in Ann Arbor and Detroit areas where I finished my formal education and where I currently practice my profession, my bond with nature and appreciation for the woods waters and natural surroundings in general was embedded in me at an early age and has never changed. I love the outdoors and nearly all of everything that nature offers in this entire area and the entire state.

As a resident, real estate attorney, former real estate broker and current Lake Property Specialist in Michigan, my practice within Lake Property Law, PLC includes most counties in the Lower Peninsula and the Eastern U.P. I graduated from the University of Michigan and Detroit College of Law over 45 years ago and have practiced as a township and city attorney, road commission attorney for 3 counties and in many other areas of real estate in Northern Michigan for many years. I also practiced in many other areas of the law but it is my experiences in practicing in the field of real estate that have been varied and extensive from rural and urban, governmental and private, corporate and individual, large acreage and subdivisions and site condominiums. Whatever the real property matter, I can assure you that I highly understand and value titles and lesser interests. However, and despite my familiarity with many real estate practice areas, I currently devote my efforts solely to the Public Land Survey System, the Submerged Lands Act, the Supremacy of Federal Patents, the Supremacy Clause, itself, and the Public Trust Doctrine as applied to our lands and waters in Michigan. These federal subject matter areas constitute the supreme law of the land and are very much controlling of lands and waters in this state and 29 others lying westerly of the orininal colonies to the Pacific Ocean. It has taken me back to its very basics which mandate a knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes and case law regarding federal government surveys and sales of lands from the beginnings of our country. That law is supreme.