Steven Wayne Dimitt

Steven represents clients in all areas of land use from the initial planning process to litigation. He has represented developers and property owners in a variety of land use issues, including zoning changes, specific use permits, abandonments, and planned development districts.  He also represents clients in litigation disputes with local governmental entities involving takings, inverse condemnation, and vested rights. Steven’s land use litigation practice has recently focused on the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person’s Act (RLUIPA).  His experience includes the successful representation of a church in  a federal court lawsuit, which resulted in the church obtaining the necessary zoning approvals that the local municipality had previously refused to provide.

In Steven’s litigation practice, he has represented clients in a broad range of matters from complex commercial disputes to catastrophic tort cases involving construction, deceptive trade practices, and premises liability matters. He is experienced in all phases of litigation from investigation to trial. Steven has taken several dozen depositions of key fact and expert witnesses and sat second chair in two trials involving personal injury claims. Steven also has an extensive motion practice, including drafting and arguing various evidentiary and dispositive motions.

Steven also represents contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in disputes involving construction defect claims, bond claims, mechanic’s and materialmen’s liens, architect and engineer professional liability, and payment claims.

During college, Steven was involved in several philanthropic organizations and served as president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity for two consecutive terms. After college, he was a commercial banking financial analyst, where he evaluated the financial viability of numerous corporations.