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
Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (And on the Ground)
K. Dedrick
Interpreting land descriptions
• Metes and bounds
• Lot and block
• Dos and don’ts for writing descriptions
Applying principles of boundary location
• Collecting and evaluating all types of boundary evidence: documents, physical evidence, people, surveys
• Locating the described land on a map
• Locating the described land on the ground
• Understanding and using geographic information systems (GIS)
Solving land description and boundary location problems
Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements
B. Quitmeier
What is and is not an easement
Reviewing state law on easements
Creating easements: easements by necessity, easements by use, written easements
Identifying critical distinctions between easements in gross, easements appurtenant and prescriptive easements
Maintaining easements
Knowing when and how to terminate easements
Obstructing use of easements and determining remedies for obstruction
Defining Trespass and Adverse Possession
R. Davis
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 possessions
Examining recent adverse possession cases
Resolving Boundary Disputes
R. Davis
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: exploringtechniques for resolving sample disputes
Understanding Utility Easements and Rights of Way
J. Wilson
Current law on utility rights of way
• Federal laws and regulations
• State laws and regulations
Types of utilities affected
• Electric, water, natural gas, telecommunications, satellite communications
• Basis for and definition of the easement
• Encroachments and interferences
• Maintenance
• Environmental issues
• Condemnation law
• Current issues involving utility easements
Credits
Attorneys
8.0 Kansas CLE Hours
8.0 Missouri CLE Hours
Title Insurance Producers
4.0 Kansas CE Hours
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Land Surveyors
6.5 Kansas PDHs
Missouri Pending
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and has been approved for 8.0 CLE hours for Kansas and Missouri attorneys.
This seminar is approved for 4.0 Title continuing education hours for Kansas insurance producers.
This event offers 6.5 PDHs to Kansas land surveyors and engineers. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Kansas. Course approval is applied for and pending for Missouri land surveyors.
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
Rick Davis
Rick Davis LegalAttorney at Rick Davis Legal in Overland Park, KSMr. Davis graduated from the University of Kansas before earning his law degree from Washburn University School of Law. He is licensed to practice in both Kansas and Missouri. After spending time as a partner with a large firm in South Florida, Mr. Davis returned to the Kansas City area and started his own practice. While at the previous firm, he represented many of the nation’s largest banks and mortgage servicing companies in the areas of residential real estate and mortgage lending. His practice focuses primarily on the areas of residential real estate and he regularly represents individual homeowners, contractors, landlords, property managers, home buyers and sellers, real estate agents, home owners associations and others within the real estate industry. Current and former clients include Bank of America, Ocwen, Lumber Liquidators, Stonehouse Rentals, Schaedler Enterprises, and Wells Fargo. Mr. Davis has been quoted as a real estate attorney in numerous national and local news publications, including, the Associated Press, ABC News, the New York Times, Realtor.com and the Kansas City Star.
Kenneth Dedrick
Kaw Valley Engineering, Inc.Survey Manager at Kaw Valley Engineering, Inc. in Lenexa, KSMr. Dedrick is a professional land surveyor licensed in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and Tennessee. He has over 39 years of land surveying experience, performing over 2000 ALTA, boundary, topographic, engineering and control surveys. Currently Mr. Dedrick manages and directs five to seven survey crews in the performance of land surveys, geodetic control surveys, engineering surveys, global positioning (GPS) system control networks, and construction surveys. He is a speaker at the University of Missouri Kansas City Law School on Legal Aspects of Surveying and Boundary Description Creation and Interpretation. He is also a past member of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) national test writing committee. Mr. Dedrick is a past chairman of the Missouri Society of Professional Land Surveyors (MSPS) handbook committee. He revised the MSPS Survey Safety Manual, later adopted by the City of Lenexa, Kansas, and Miami County, Kansas, Survey Department. Mr. Dedrick was a contributing member of the National Geodetic Survey Height Modernization Committee in Washington, D.C. in 2000. He is also a previous speaker at the Kansas Society of Land Surveyors annual seminar and National Business Institute.
William Quitmeier
Quitmeier Law FirmPresident at Quitmeier Law firm in Kansa City, MOMr. Quitmeier has been practicing law for nearly 40 years. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Kansas in 1973 and his Juris Doctor degree, also from the University of Kansas, in 1975. He is the owner of Quitmeier law firm and has held a real estate brokers license since 1977. Mr. Quitmeier is licensed to practice law in the states of Kansas and Missouri. He served as alderman for the City of Parkville from 1985 to 1991 and then as mayor from 1991 to 2002. Mr. Quitmeier is also an experienced teacher. He has taught environmental law at Park University and has teaching experience in the areas of real estate law, real estate contracts, and business law.
Jeffrey Wilson
Anderson & Byrd, LLPAssociate at Anderson & Byrd, LLP in Ottawa, KSMr. Wilson received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in 2010 and received his law degree from Washburn University School of Law in 2014. He joined Anderson & Byrd, LLP in 2014 as an associate, and is admitted to practice before all courts in Kansas including the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Mr. Wilson is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The bulk of his experience lies with oil and gas law and electric utility regulation. Specifically, Mr. Wilson has practiced in the areas of title examination, transactional drafting, leasing disputes, general litigation, arbitration, disputes involving electric utilities, and representation before the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) on behalf of public utilities and oil and gas operators. He is a member of the Kansas Bar Association’s, Oil, Gas and Mineral Law section and is the president of the Franklin County Bar Association. Mr. Wilson is also the city attorney for Richmond, Kansas.