A landowner may only face one takings case in their life, but those of us in right of way deal with challenging and changing areas of the law every day. The more difficult the acquisition process becomes, the more training right of way professionals require in order to perform effectively. This is why we [...]
This year's IRWA's Annual Education Conference is set be the best one ever, and that's saying something for a conference that has been running for 71 straight years! The schedule of speakers will provide multiple days of high quality educational material across all aspects of the right of way profession. We're incredibly excited that this [...]
Eminent domain and right of way entail a constant balance between the public need and private property rights. However, from our perspective, conferences and continuing education courses have in more recent years tended to focus on one side--the landowner’s side--rather than the side where the day-to-day work is performed that gives us infrastructure projects, i.e. [...]
The 16th Anniversary Virginia Eminent Domain CLE makes its return this year again at the Delta Bayfront Suites in Virginia Beach, May 4-5, 2022. The conference agenda is available here. My law partner Dave Arnold and I will be presenting on two different interesting topics. I will be talking about standards for sound walls or noise [...]