The law firm of Earl, Curley & Lagarde, P.C., was established in January of 1991, to concentrate in Zoning, Land Use Planning, and Governmental and Regulatory Entitlement Law. The founding partners of this law firm, Stephen C. Earl, Michael J. Curley, and Lynne Lagarde have concentrated this practice in Zoning, Land Use Planning, and Governmental Relations Law for well over 20 years in the greater Metropolitan Phoenix Area.

During this period of time, these partners, along with their staff of highly experienced urban planners, have handled hundreds of zoning cases annually in virtually every municipality in the Phoenix Valley and surrounding counties, representing such recognizable property owners, developers and projects as American Express, Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Blandford Homes, The Boulders, Brighton Development, Candlewood Hotel Company, Carefree Partners, Cavalier Homes, Celebration of Fine Arts, Chinese Cultural Center, Continental Homes, Costco, Courtland Homes, Del Webb Corporation, Desert Mountain Properties and The Anderson Company, Elliott Homes, Estancia, Four Seasons, Foxworth Galbraith, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Gray Development, Grayhawk, Grossman Company Properties, Highlands Development Company, Home Depot, Honeywell, D. R. Horton, Houston's Restaurants Inc., Hyatt, JDMD, Kitchell Development, KSL Recreation Corp., L. A. Fitness, Lennar Homes, Lifetime Fitness, Bill Luke Chrysler Dodge, Mark Taylor, Mutual of New York, Newport Development, Opus West, Pederson Group, Picerne Development, Pulte Home Corporation, Republic Companies, Ryan Company, Salt River Project, Safeway Inc., Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale Princess Hotel, Security Capital Industrial, Sinclair Oil, St. Joseph's Hospital, Stardust Development, SunCor Development Company, Sunrise Senior Living, Taubman Company, Trammell Crow, Trend Homes, Vestar and Westcor Partners.

The zoning and land use work for these clients and many other development companies has included a wide variety of residential, office, industrial, retail, regional shopping center and institutional projects, as well as large master planned communities. Preparing and processing these cases has involved extensive work with municipal zoning and subdivision regulations, development agreements and coordination with governmental planning departments, neighborhood groups, Planning Commissions, City Councils and County Boards of Supervisors.

The firm has also handled the preparation and negotiation of development agreements for such major projects as Scottsdale Fashion Square, Camelback Colonnade, Biltmore Fashion Park, Arizona Mills, Scottsdale Fiesta Power Center at Pima and Shea, Del Webb's Sun City Grand, Stardust Development Inc.’s Tartesso community master plan, JDMD’s Douglas Ranch, Verde Santa Fe and other regional and community level shopping centers.