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Michael Kozlarek's practice is divided into the following areas of concentration:
Assisting counties, municipalities and school districts in the issuance of bonds and other instruments to fund capital projects and operating expenses
Advising counties in all aspects of economic development, including the creation of multi-county industrial parks and negotiation of the fee-in-lieu of tax incentive
Counseling governmental clients on the utilization of tax increment finance and special assessment districts to create sources of revenue to pay for new infrastructure
Consulting with private industry concerning South Carolina property tax law
Representing both foreign and domestic companies in the negotiation of economic development incentives in the Carolinas
Representing governmental clients and private industry regarding the use of South Carolina's tax-exempt bond program and the federal low income housing tax credit program to finance housing developments
In addition to his service at Parker Poe, Mr. Kozlarek teaches Legal Drafting as an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Prior to joining Parker Poe, Mr. Kozlarek served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable William L. Howard, Sr. at the South Carolina Court of Appeals, an adjunct professor at Horry-Georgetown Technical College, a commercial intern to the United States Foreign Commercial Service and a law clerk to the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee.
In August 2003, Mr. Kozlarek was honorably discharged from six years of service in the South Carolina Army National Guard. | 