Education
J.D., Wayne State University School of Law, 1984
B.A., Michigan State University, 1981

James M. Crowley is a member of the Education and Municipal Law Practice Group in Clark Hill’s Birmingham office, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of municipal finance law, school and municipal law, tax-exempt organizations, employee benefits law, and tax law.

James has extensive experience in municipal and school finance. He regularly serves as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, and disclosure counsel for school districts, public charter school academies, and various municipalities. In these capacities he has served as counsel relating to tax-exempt and taxable financings, fixed and variable rate financings, general obligation and revenue financings, unlimited and limited tax financings, and conduit financings. 

James also has extensive experience in employee benefit and tax law issues for school districts and municipalities, including IRC 403(b) and 457 plans, cafeteria plans and early retirement incentive plans; in general school and election law; in general business, corporate and tax law, and in the division and valuation of retirement benefits in divorce, including qualified domestic relations orders, eligible domestic relations orders, and qualified court orders.

James received a B.A. in Accounting from Michigan State University in 1981, and a J.D. from Wayne State University in 1984.