Ms. Brader is a member of the Business and Environmental Practice Groups. She represents clients involved in a variety of matters including incentives and tax credits for Brownfield and other redevelopment projects, environmental compliance, and corporate organization (including certification as a woman- or minority-owned business).

Ms. Brader has successfully represented corporate clients seeking to identify and obtain all available governmental incentives to locate or expand facilities in Michigan. For example, she helped a Fortune 500 company obtain more than $5 million in tax incentives to establish a new Michigan facility. She obtained approximately $400,000 in credits for the first site in Ann Arbor, Michigan to execute its approved Brownfield plan.

Before joining Bodman, Ms. Brader clerked for the Hon. John Feikens, U.S. District Court. She also worked as a senior environmental consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, where her work included support for the Air Force’s redevelopment efforts and rulemaking efforts for the EPA and DoD. She also was on the staff for Governor Phil Batt of Idaho on environmental and natural resource issues (including hydropower and endangered species), and worked at the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality on water quality regulation development.

Ms. Brader is secretary of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Caring Program, a member of the Board of Directors and past president of the Harvard Club of Eastern Michigan, and the vice president of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church.  She is a Rhodes Scholar (Keble and Idaho 1998), a recipient of the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award, and was a winner in the Pacific Legal Foundation's writing competition.

Ms. Brader's publications include:

• “Congress’ Pet: Why the Clean Air Act’s Favoritism of California is Unconstitutional under the Equal Footing Doctrine,” Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (Winter 2007)
• “No Second Class States: Why the California Exceptions in the Clean Air Act Are Unconstitutional,” Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis (August 2006)
• “Shell Games: Vicarious Liability for State and Local Governments for Insufficiently Protective Regulations Under the ESA (Endangered Species Act),” Natural Resources Law Journal (2005)
• Co-Author, “The Limits of Erosion Modeling: or why we should proceed with care,” chapter in Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling (2002)
• “Blueprint for a Phased TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load),” presented and published at 2002 National Defense Industrial Association Environmental & Energy Symposium & Exhibition
• “Complying with Surface Water Regulations Through Pollution Prevention,” presented and published at 2001 Joint Services Pollution Prevention and Hazardous Waste Management Conference

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