Dave W. Berry

Mr. Berry is an AV rated attorney with over 30 years experience in representing property owners in condemnation, zoning, and other property valuation litigation.  Mr. Berry has successfully handled some of Michigan’s largest condemnation cases.  Mr. Berry was selected by his peers to be included in the Best Lawyers in America, 2007.  Mr. Berry formerly sat on the Real Property Section Council for the Michigan State Bar.  He served as Chairman of the Zoning and Land Use Committee, and has served on the Condemnation Committee for many years.  Mr. Berry earned his B.A. from Albion College in 1970 and his J.D. from the University of Detroit in 1975.  He has written and lectured extensively on eminent domain and zoning and land use issues.  Mr. Berry is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the Oakland County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.  He is a member of the International Right of Way Association and the Building Industry Association of Southeastern Michigan, where he serves on the Legislative Affairs Committee. 

Ronald E. Reynolds

Mr. Reynolds is an AV-rated attorney practicing in the eminent domain, land use, and real property litigation fields.  He also has extensive arbitration, trial, and appellate court experience in a variety of business and commercial litigation cases.  Mr. Reynolds was selected as one of the top Michigan lawyers by The Detroit News.  Mr. Reynolds is Chair of the Michigan State Bar Real Property Law Section's Condemnation Committee and is a member of the American Bar Association's Committee on Condemnation, Zoning, and Land Use Litigation.  He also currently serves as the Coordinator for Continuing Legal Education for the Real Property Law Section of the Michigan State Bar.  He co-authors, along with Dave Berry, the annual update to the Institute of Continuing Legal Education's Michigan Law of Damages chapters on Condemnation, Proving the Value of Property, and Regulatory Takings and has published numerous articles relating to a variety of property rights issues. Mr. Reynolds served as the President of Leadership Oakland in 2006-2007 and currently serves on the Board of Directors.  Mr. Reynolds has argued before the Michigan Supreme Court including the recent 2005 decision in Blackhawk Development Corporation v Village of Dexter, (July 2005) which protected important property rights arising out of an easement dispute.  Mr. Reynolds is a 1984 graduate of Hillsdale College (B.A., magna cum laude) and a 1987 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law.  He participated as a barrister with the American Inns of Court.

Joseph M. Rogowski, II

Mr. Rogowski is an AV-rated attorney and joined Dave Berry and Ron Reynolds in 2004 in the practice of eminent domain, property tax appeals, commercial litigation, real property litigation, and land use law.  Mr. Rogowski represented the property owner in the recent Michigan Supreme Court case Alibri v Detroit Wayne County Stadium Authority, which established significant safeguards for property owners threatened by eminent domain.  Mr. Rogowski is the current Chair of the Real Estate Section of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association.  Mr. Rogowski was President of the Barristers of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association in 2003-2004, was a member of the 2004 and 2006 DMBA Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee, and held the position of Barrister in the Oakland County Inn of Court.  Mr. Rogowski holds memberships in the Oakland County, Detroit Metropolitan, Michigan, and American Bar Associations.  He is a 1990 graduate of Albion College (BA in History), where he was a member of the Mortar Board and the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Public Service.  Mr. Rogowski is a graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law (JD, cum laude), where he was a member of the Justice Frank Murphy Honor Society, the Moot Court Board of Directors, and the American Inns of Court.