For nearly twenty years, Mr. Dingeman has been providing general legal counsel to a business that has become the community’s largest privately owned employer, assisting in corporate structure, expansion, national/ international business operations and new business opportunity assessment. He has overseen all aspects of the business’s 100,000 square foot-plus downtown “campus” expansion, including successfully navigating through politically polarizing anti-growth/pro-growth debates, obtaining tax increment financing, brownfield remediation, Community Development Block Grants, and Michigan Economic Growth Authority tax credits by working with all levels of government from local city commissions to the governor’s office.

He has also provided legal counsel to some of the most significant developments in Northern Michigan. Mr. Dingeman represents numerous individuals and businesses in the development, sale, and exchange of real and personal property. He also has extensive experience in tax-deferred exchanges, commercial real estate finance and collateralization, challenges of tax assessments, property tax appeals and zoning matters, as well as site condominium development.

Mr. Dingeman has represented many commercial bank trust departments and individual clients in a wide range of complex estate litigation and planning matters, including estate and wealth transfer planning for traditional as well as non-traditional families and second marriages; planning for disabled and special needs individuals; trust administration; will and trusts contests; and fiduciary representation.

Individually, Mr. Dingeman has also been an active real estate developer of residential subdivisions, condominiums, motels, single-tenant retail centers, shopping centers and office buildings in Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio and Florida.

• Father Fred Foundation - a nonprofit organization providing food, shelter, clothing and utilities to the region’s underprivileged and homeless citizens
  - Co-founder (1989), Board Member and Officer
• Down Syndrome Association of Northern Michigan
  - Co-founder (1990)
• Northern Michigan Planned Giving Council
  - Co-founder (1998) and Board Member
• Grand Traverse Area Community Living Management Corporation
  - Board Member (2007)
• Traverse Area Developers Organization
  - Chairman (2009)

• American Bar Association
• State Bar of Michigan
  - Real Property Section (Zoning and Land Use Committee)
  - Business Law Section
  - Probate Section
  - Estate Planning Section
• Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association
• District of Columbia Bar Association