Overview

Michael Marrs is a Partner with the law firm of Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins, Ltd. Michael concentrates his legal practice in the general counseling of local government entities, including acting as Village Attorney and as counsel for Plan Commissions and Zoning Boards of Appeal for various municipalities in Cook and the surrounding counties.

Michael advises clients on, among other things, land use and zoning matters, acquisition and sale of property, redevelopment projects, code enforcement and dealing with problem properties, contractual issues, the preparation of ordinances and resolutions involving all municipal matters and provides general counseling on day-to-day operational and municipal matters. Michael has been active in recent years in working with the firm’s local government clients on telecommunications issues, particularly in developing code updates and other regulations related to the Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act (Public Act 100-585).

Upon graduating law school, Michael worked as the civil judiciary committee attorney on the staff of the Illinois Senate Minority Leader, where he analyzed bills, drafted legislation for Senate members and regularly attended Judiciary Committee hearings to advise Senate members on proposed legislation. Michael subsequently served for several years as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Margaret Stanton McBride of the Illinois Appellate Court, First District.

Michael is a 1994 graduate of the DePaul College of Law, where he was an editor of the DePaul University Law Review. Prior to law school, Michael graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington with a B.S. in Management and Organizations in 1988. Michael is admitted to practice in Illinois and before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.