Boundaries and Easements Seminar
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What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4:40 pm
Boundary Location
J. Mahun
Descriptions
• Types of descriptions
• Characteristics
• Boundary dependence
• Interpretation issues
• Writing vs interpreting a description
Principles of boundary location
• Types and sources of boundary evidence
• Weighing conflicting evidence
• Identifying location issues
• Resolution of location problems
Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements
E. Kelley
What is and is not an easement
Reviewing state law on easements
Creating easements: easements by necessity,
easements by use, written easements
Critical distinctions between easements in gross,
easements appurtenant and prescriptive easements
Obstructing use of easements and determining remedies
for obstruction
Defining Trespass and Adverse Possession
M. Olson
Defining trespass
Reviewing the history of adverse possession
Maintaining a claim for adverse possession
• Statute of limitations
• Elements of a claim
Defending against a claim for adverse possession
Examining recent adverse possession cases
Resolving Boundary Disputes
M. Hazelbaker
Types of boundary disputes
• Adverse possession, easements, boundaries
Obtaining and reviewing boundary evidence
Methods for establishing disputed boundaries
Participating in dispute resolution techniques
• Litigation, arbitration, mediation, agreements,
title insurance
Examining boundary dispute case studies: exploring
techniques for resolving sample disputes
Avoiding, Identifying and Resolving Ethical
Issues in Land Transactions and Disputes
M. Hazelbaker
Conflicts of interest: identifying your client
What duties do you owe, and to whom do you owe them?
Do you need to maintain confidentiality, and for whom?
Complying with your professional responsibility for
honesty and truthfulness
Practicing only in areas of competence
Ethical solicitation of business
Taking referrals from other professionals
Credits
Attorneys
8.0 Wisconsin CLE Hours,
including 1.0 EPR Hour
Land Surveyors & Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public. It is approved by the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners for 8.0 CLE hours for attorneys, including 1.0 ethics and professional responsibility hour.
This seminar offers up to 6.5 PDHs to Wisconsin land surveyors and 6.5 PDHs to Wisconsin engineers to whom the subject matter is professionally relevant. Wisconsin land surveyors and engineers with continuing education requirements in other states will be able to apply the hours from this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility, or contact HalfMoon Education for assistance.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Mark B. Hazelbaker
Attorney at Kasieta Legal GroupThis coming January is his 40th anniversary in practice. Mr. Hazelbaker’s career includes service as in-house counsel to the Wisconsin Counties Association, and work as a county attorney, personnel director, and administrator. His 30 years of private practice experience include extensive litigation and business experience. Mr. Hazelbaker focuses on municipal and land use law, employment, and small business. He draws on a wide range of experience to be of assistance to clients in land use and real estate, municipal, business, government relations and general practice. Mr. Hazelbaker received his undergraduate and law degrees from UW-Madison. He has represented individuals, communities, and businesses in every part of Wisconsin. Mr. Hazelbaker frequently teaches other lawyers in continuing legal education courses.
Eileen Kelley
Stafford Rosenbaum LLPAttorney with Stafford Rosenbaum LLP in MadisonMs. Kelley works for individuals and businesses, and her practice includes representation of commercial real estate clients and secured lenders and creditors in loan enforcement matters. She represents clients in closely held business in general matters and transactions including the acquisition, formation and sale of businesses. Ms. Kelley graduated with her B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University, magna cum laude, and her J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School, cum laude.
Jerry Mahun
Mr. Mahun has been involved in surveying education for more than 30 years. Although currently “retired,” he teaches surveying part-time at UW-Platteville. He retired after 19 years at Madison Area Technical College where he taught technical and legal surveying classes in the Civil Engineering Technology program. Before MATC he taught surveying at Penn State-Wilkes-Barre, Purdue University, and UW-Platteville. Mr. Mahun has presented numerous seminars to diverse groups in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. He has worked for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Geodetic Survey, and even for the US Army, and he has done consulting as well. Mr. Mahun is a licensed Wisconsin professional surveyor and holds memberships in the National Society of Professional Surveyors, the Wisconsin Land Information Association, and the Wisconsin Society of Land Surveyors. He has been a WSLS director at large and WSLS Foundation Board member and he has served on a number of WSLS committees and the State Cartographer’s Advisory Committee.
Mitchell Olson
Axley Brynelson, LLPPartner with the law firm of Axley Brynelson, LLPMr. Olson works primarily out of the firm’s Madison office, but he also serves clients out of the firm’s Waukesha office. He is a member of the firm’s litigation practice group, where he concentrates his practice in civil litigation, real estate, land use and zoning, municipal, and condemnation matters. Mr. Olson holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from UW-Madison and his law degree from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College.