Practice areas
Representing small and large developers before zoning and planning boards, serving local governments in court, and drafting amendments to zoning ordinances. Extensive successful experience handling some of the more difficult zoning proposals that often generate neighborhood opposition, such as a bank drive-in facility in a residential neighborhood and multifamily housing in suburbs that tend to exclude it. Details at http://www.lauberlaw.net, including a PDF file of my far too-detailed resume.
37 years, 100 cases
Regarded as one of the nation's experts on zoning for group homes, halfway houses, and recovery communities for people with disabilities. Representing operators before zoning and planning boards, we prevent neighborhood opposition, and also draft zoning code amendments to bring local zoning for community residences into compliance with the nation's Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988. Serve as an expert witness in court cases and as counsel. More details available at http://www.grouphomelaw.net
37 years, 100 cases
Draft articles of incorporation and bylaws for nonprofits; counsel to nonprofits. Draft simple wills and trusts. Most of practice, however, is devoted to zoning and land-use law, housing, and fair housing.
37 years, 6 cases
Languages spoken
English
Law Office of Daniel Lauber
7215 Oak Ave.
River Forest, IL, 60305-1935
State | Status | Acquired | Updated |
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IL | Active And Authorized To Practice Law | 1985 | 03/06/2022 |
Legal answers | 119 |
Legal guides | 0 |
Award name | Grantor | Date Granted |
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Best Practice - Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing | Illinois Chapter American Planning Association | 2009 |
Paul Davidoff Award | American Planning Association | 1998 |
Best Makeover in Book Design | Mid-America Publishers Association | 1997 |
Benjamin Franklin Award: "Most Improved Redesign" | Publishers Marketing Association | 1995 |
Award of Merit for Program or Project of Unusually High Merit | Illinois Chapter American Planning Association | 1991 |
Award of Merit for Oak Park Comprehensive Plan 1979 | Illinois Chapter American Planning Association | 1983 |
Title | Company name | Duration |
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Attorney | Law Office Daniel Lauber | 1985 - Present |
President | Planning/Communications | 1979 - Present |
Lecturer | Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University of Chicago | 1989 - 1989 |
Researcher | Lawyers Committee for Better Housing | 1983 - 1983 |
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Science | College of Arts & Sciences, Governors State University | 1979 - 1980 |
Columnist - created and wrote Condo Watch | Chicago Sun-Times | 1979 - 1979 |
Senior Planner | Village of Oak Park | 1977 - 1979 |
Senior Planner / 701 Program Coordinator | Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs | 1975 - 1977 |
Principal Contributing Consultant | ABA Advisory Commission on Housing and Urban Growth | 1975 - 1975 |
Research Associate | American Society of Planning Officials | 1972 - 1975 |
Association name | Position name | Duration |
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Chicago Bar Association | Member | 1986 - Present |
American Bar Association | Member, national conference speaker | 1983 - Present |
American Institute of Certified Planners | President | 2003 - 2005 |
American Institute of Certified Planners | President | 1992 - 1994 |
Chicago Bar Association | Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Zoning and Land Use | 1989 - 1990 |
American Planning Association | President | 1985 - 1986 |
Publication name | Title | Date |
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Planning magazine | Legal Lessons: Three Decades On, Group Home Zoning Still at Issue | 2015 |
John Marshall Law Review | A Real LULU: Zoning for Group Homes and Halfway Houses Under the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 | 1996 |
Planning Magazine | Mainstreaming Group Homes | 1985 |
"Land Reform, American Style" - book | Condominium Conversions: A Reform in Need of Reform | 1984 |
Condominium and Cooperative Conversion: The Federal Response | Towards a Rational Housing Policy: The Role of Condominium Conversions | 1981 |
Planning Advisory Service Report No. 343 - Co-author | Condominium Conversion Regulations: Protecting Tenants | 1979 |
Planning Advisory Service Report No. 312 | The Hearing Examiner in Zoning Administration | 1975 |
Planning Advisory Service Report No. 292 | Recent Cases in Exclusionary Zoning | 1975 |
Planning Advisory Service Report No. 300 | Zoning for Family & Group Care Facilities | 1974 |
School name | Degree | Graduated |
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Northwestern University School of Law | JD - Juris Doctor | 1985 |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Masters | 1972 |
University of Chicago | BA - Bachelor of Arts | 1970 |
Conference name | Title | Date |
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Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing and Affirmative Marketing | Key Elements and Best Practices: Creating a Competent Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice | 2011 |
Fair Housing: The Legal Duty to Affirmatively Further | The World of Westchester and the Federal False Claims Act: Is That Really Your Analysis of Impediments? | 2011 |
Teleconference | Integrating Fair Housing into Municipal Law: Group Homes, AIs, and the Fair Housing Act | 2010 |
Race Place and Fair Housing in Texas | Creating an Effective Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing | 2010 |
Annual Community and Economic Development Conference and Training | Fair Housing & Economic Opportunity: Updating the AI, Ensuring Compliance & Making Progress Toward Change | 2010 |
ABA National Conference | Locally Unwanted Land Uses: Focus on Community Residences/Group Homes | 2009 |
Keynote Address, Annual Conference of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives | Bringing Sense to American Housing Policy | 2005 |
Fair Housing 1968–1998: Promises Kept, Promises Broken | Zoning for Group Homes | 1998 |
Fair Housing Enforcement: A Focus on Special Issues Affecting the Disabled, Families with Children, and the First Amendment | Must Zoning Accommodate Group Homes? | 1995 |
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