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Brandon J. Evans

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Phone: (906) 226-2543
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Brandon’s largest clients have been in the mining, paper, forest management, railroad, and construction industries. He has a general practice with an emphasis on real estate, mining, minerals, title examination, natural resources and related civil litigation.

Land title issues are a primary focus of Brandon’s practice. He previously acted as a title insurance agent in Michigan and Wisconsin for two different law firm owned title companies. Now his title examination work is focused on mineral estates and interests, title defects and other matters related to his real estate practice, and title opinions based primarily on Michigan’s Marketable Record Title Act. Brandon is a member of State Bar of Michigan’s Land Title Standards Committee, which publishes the Michigan Land Title Standards, an authoritative reference on the law of land titles and other aspects of real property law in Michigan.

Brandon also regularly handles real estate transactional matters including preparing purchase agreements, bills of sale, easements, deeds, notes, mortgages, options, leases, licenses, and other real estate related documents.

Brandon has represented countless business entities, banks and other financial institutions, public entities, and individuals in state and federal court matters. These litigated matters have spanned a wide range of issues including mining title and royalty disagreements, commercial disputes, business breakups including shareholder oppression claims, both sides of personal injury cases, environmental contribution, cost recovery, indemnification, and enforcement actions, fraud and check kiting schemes, evictions and landlord tenant matters, judicial and by advertisement foreclosures, probate proceedings, and trust and estate disputes.

Prior to joining the firm in 2012, Brandon worked for law firms in Green Bay and Detroit. He spent four years working nearly exclusively with a team of lawyers on two related federal CERCLA cases concerning the PCB cleanup of the Lower Fox River, which at that time was an ongoing Superfund site and anticipated to be the largest environmental dredging project ever undertaken. At one time his practice was focused on construction related disputes, and his office was in the executive suite of a major Green Bay based engineering firm with offices in several states. His career began in the Detroit area working for one of the largest foreclosure law firms in Michigan learning all aspects of the foreclosure process.

Brandon is an Ishpeming native having graduated from Westwood High School and, summa cum laude, from Northern Michigan University. He earned his law degree from the George Mason University School of Law in the Washington D.C. area. Brandon maintains his Wisconsin licensure and is active in both the State Bar of Michigan and the State Bar of Wisconsin. He has been recognized numerous times as a "Rising Star" by Michigan Super Lawyers.

Education

  • George Mason University School of Law, J.D., 2005;
  • Northern Michigan University, B.S., summa cum laude, 2002.

Admitted

  • 2012, U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan;
  • 2010, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit;
  • 2008, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin;
  • 2007, Wisconsin;
  • 2006, Michigan.

Memberships

  • Fellow, Wisconsin Law Foundation;
  • Marquette County Bar Association;
  • State Bar of Michigan;
  • State Bar of Wisconsin;
  • Federal Bar Association;
  • The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (formerly Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation).

Biography

  • Land Title Standards Committee, State Bar of Michigan (2024-2025);
  • Character and Fitness Committee, State Bar of Michigan (2019-2025);
  • Chair, Communications Committee, State Bar of Wisconsin (2019-2020);
  • Court Forms Committee, Michigan Supreme Court (2019-2020);
  • Chair, Litigation Section of the State Bar of Michigan (2017-2018);
  • Executive Committee, State Bar of Wisconsin (2017-2018);
  • Board of Governors, State Bar of Wisconsin (2017-2018);
  • President, Young Lawyers Division State Bar of Wisconsin (2016-2017);
  • Corporate Secretary & Board Member, YMCA of Marquette County (2014-2016);
  • President, Brown County (WI) Young Lawyers Association (2010-2011);
  • Dual Recipient, Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, Economics and Political Science Departments, Northern Michigan University (2002).

Select Publications & Speaking Engagements

  • Contributing Author, The Law of Damages in Wisconsin, Ninth Edition, 2014-2025, State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE®;
  • Author, Marketable Record Title Act Litigation – It’s Coming!, The Litigation Journal, State Bar of Michigan, Summer 2021;
  • Editorial Board, Wisconsin Lawyer (2014-2020);
  • Speaker, An Action to Quiet Mineral Title, the Marketable Record Title Act and Other Thoughts from a U.P. Title Examiner, State Bar of Michigan Real Property Law Section 2020 Winter Conference in Coronado, California – link here;
  • Editor, Fresh Perspectives, State Bar of Wisconsin (2013-2015);
  • Founding Member & Articles Editor, Journal of Law, Economics & Policy (2003-2005);
  • Member, George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal (2004-2005).

Representative Nonprofit Clients

  • Noquemanon Trails Network Council
  • Northern Michigan Geological Repository Association.

Check out Brandon’s blog at: www.ThatsMyArgument.com