Taft Chicago attorney Braeden Lord will be a speaker at the 2026 American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference in Detroit, Michigan on April 28 at 10:15 a.m. ET.

The panel, “Zoning for the Culture Wars,” will discuss the historical impact land use regulations have had on cultural diversity, social diversity, and socioeconomic opportunity, and how those regulations can be retooled for good in the context of today’s hot-button issues. For more information or to register, click here.

Lord is an attorney in Taft’s Real Estate practice group. He advises real estate developers, corporations, non-profits, small businesses, and local governments on a wide range of topics, including zoning, licensing, permitting, local taxation, statutory interpretation, and real property acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and financing.