Michael Curley, another founding partner in Earl, Curley & Lagarde, was educated at the University of New York and the University of Notre Dame from which he received his Juris Doctorate Degree in 1980. After serving as a Law Clerk to Judge Walter Craig of the United States District Court, he became an associate with the law firm of Jennings, Strouss and Salmon and joined their Zoning Department. He continued his concentration in zoning and land use planning law from that day to the present, leaving his old firm in April of 1986, to join Earl, Baird and Williams and was a cofounder of the firm of Earl, Curley & Lagarde in 1991. Mr. Curley now has over 20 years of experience in handling all types of zoning and land use matters.