What is happening at IMLA?
Comparative Law Program
September 12-17, 2022
Seville, Spain
Click here to learn more.
2022 IMLA’s 87th Annual Conference
Portland, Oregon: October 19-23, 2022
Hilton Portland Downtown & The Duniway, A Hilton Hotel
Click here to learn more about the conference.
IMLA Resource Library
The IMLA Resource Library is a gold mine for municipal lawyers! The archive is only available to IMLA members through a password protected log-in process and provides access to past IMLA seminar & conference materials, past Municipal Lawyer issues, summaries of recent decisions, legislative updates, updates on breaking legal issues, model ordinances and more!
Click here to visit the Resource Library.
If you need assistance logging in, please email cstorer@imla.org.
Working Groups
The below working groups are consistently having calls. If you would like to join any of the working groups/calls, please email cstorer@imla.org.
- Homelessness
- Code Enforcement
- Opioid
- Affirmative Litigation
- Climate Change
- Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
- COVID-19
For a full listing of the working groups/listservs IMLA offers, click here.
Legal Advocacy
IMLA files briefs before the Supreme Court at both the merits and petition stage and in some cases that have enough national importance, IMLA will file an amicus brief in both federal and state appellate courts. If you want to contact IMLA about possible participation in your case, contact Amanda Karras, IMLA’s Executive Director / General Counsel.
With respect to appellate litigation, the IMLA Legal Advocacy Program serves IMLA members and their governmental clients as an evaluation center, as an information outlet and in some cases as an amicus in litigation considered to have a significant impact on a substantial number of local governments on a national basis. IMLA is the service organization of primary resort for its members in all cases in which a party to a case before the United States Supreme Court is represented by an IMLA member. The issues in these lawsuits range from the constitutional allocation of power between state and local governments and the federal government to challenges to the regulatory authority of governments based on civil and individual rights.