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Mr. Grabske specializes in real estate and complex business litigation. His practice is focused on assisting landowners, businesses, and public agencies with eminent domain, inverse condemnation, contract disputes, land use and environmental issues. Mr. Grabske has successfully represented clients in high stakes trials and before the Court of Appeals. Mr. Grabske has also been recognized as a “Rising Star” in Los Angeles magazine’s Southern California Super Lawyer edition.

Mr. Hansen litigates disputes involving real estate law, land use, environmental matters, and commercial transactions. He frequently litigates, writes about, and teaches at conferences on easements and boundary disputes. Mr. Hansen graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in American Studies from Biola University in La Mirada, California. He earned his law degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Among his many interests and community involvements, Mr. Hansen serves as an officer with the Real Property Section of the Sacramento County Bar Association and as a Dispute Resolution Conference pro-tem judge for the El Dorado County Superior Court. 

Mr. Hensley is an accomplished trial lawyer. With close to 40 years of experience helping his clients resolve disputes – through trials, arbitrations, mediations, and appeals – he’s argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court as well as all Southern California State and Federal courts. In addition, he’s often asked to assist clients across the country and as a result has made a number of pro hac vice appearances before various Federal and State courts throughout the United States. Throughout his career, Mr. Hensley has been involved in lawsuits related to a wide range of corporate disputes, from real estate, securities, and corporate governance issues, to trade secrets, employment matters, unfair competition, and California financing laws. He has significant experience defending class action lawsuits. Finally, Mr. Hensley has an active real estate and appellate practice covering both transactional and litigation matters: he’s helped clients structure and defend mechanics liens, purchase agreements, commercial leases, homeowner’s disputes, commercial common area maintenance disputes, subordination agreements, financing arrangements, and more.

Mr. Offord graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2005. Thereafter, he remained in Santa Barbara to work at a general litigation firm before attending law school at Santa Clara University and earning his J.D. degree in 2009. As a student at Santa Clara, he was named top of his class (receiving the CALI or the Witkin Award) in four of his courses, in addition to graduating on the Dean’s List. Mr. Offord joined the firm in 2009 after clerking for a law practice that primarily focused on real estate litigation and transactions. His experience includes law and motion practice and all stages of civil trials, including serving as lead counsel in many bench and jury trials. He has participated in State and Federal trials. He is heavily involved in the local real estate community, with an active role in several local real estate associations. He has also obtained his Real Estate Broker’s License from the California Department of Real Estate. He is regularly asked to be a speaker for local real estate organizations and brokerages, including SILVAR, Santa Clara County Association of Realtors®, and San Mateo County Association of Realtors®. He has also guest lectured at Menlo College for the Real Estate Law and Introduction to Law courses. In addition, Mr. Offord has been a speaker for both the Santa Clara County and San Mateo County Bar Associations. At Brewer Offord & Pedersen LLP, Mr. Offord works on matters representing real estate professionals and homeowners involved in neighbor and property disputes, as well as on commercial leasing matters and homeowner association issues. 

Mr. Ashwell practices in the areas of criminal defense and civil litigation, land use and zoning, domestic relations, estate planning and real estate. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, Ohio, and his B.A. degree from Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia. Mr. Ashwell was named a Virginia Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2017-2021. He has served as a frequent speaker at CLE classes and seminars related to land use, zoning, easements and ethics in boundary law.

Ms. Curtin is an associate attorney whose practice focuses on civil litigation with an emphasis on land use, business litigation, estate litigation, and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Ms. Curtin earned her law degree from Washington & Lee University in 2020. While in law school, she served as President of the Federalist Society and Vice President of the Washington & Lee Veterans’ Advocates. During her third year, she served as a judicial extern for the Hon. Judge J. Fred Watson of the Virginia 24th Circuit. Ms. Curtin received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Roanoke College in 2015, where she graduated magna cum laude with honors. While at Roanoke, she was a four-year starting goalie for the women’s lacrosse team and the recipient of a full academic scholarship.

Mr. Derdeyn’s practice focuses on the areas of commercial and real estate litigation, employment law, and general business law. He also serves as general counsel to a number of local businesses. His litigation experience includes litigating claims for individuals and businesses in state and federal courts in the areas of commercial litigation, real estate, construction, employment, and landlord-tenant law. He has litigated and resolved matters involving partnership and shareholder disputes, trade secret violations, fraud, business torts, defamation, tortious interference with contract, breach of contract, wrongful termination, discrimination, violations of the Uniform Commercial Code, violations of the Consumer Protection Act, real property disputes, and trust and estate matters, among others.

Mr. Peeples focuses his practice in the areas of maritime and riparian law, construction law, worker’s compensation, and national security. A prolific author, he has written articles on Virginia aquaculture and maritime law, including the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act, the Virginia Primary Sand Dune and Beaches Act, and the Virginia Tidal Wetlands Act. Mr. Peeples has been published in a number of professional journals on a variety of topics, ranging from Virginia real property law to the Anti-Terrorism Act. He is a member of the firm’s waterfront law practice group, and he writes blog articles regularly on the group’s website devoted to waterfront (riparian) property rights law, maritime and admiralty law, and environmental law. He has also taught CLE courses on the topic of riparian rights throughout the Commonwealth. Before joining the firm in 2018, Mr. Peeples retired from the U.S. Navy after 22 years of service as a pilot. He completed seven combat deployments and served as the Commanding Officer of a helicopter squadron. His last assignment was Lead Rotational Planner for the Joint Staff, where he provided strategic advice to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of Defense.

Mr. Breedlove focuses his practice on water rights transactions and permitting, state and federal land permitting, mining, administrative law, and governmental relations. His experience includes a wide variety of water rights transactions (groundwater, surface water, and Colorado River entitlements), assured water supply permitting, consultation on compliance with active management area management plans, water rights due diligence and permitting, state land acquisition, and National Historic Preservation Act compliance. Mr. Breedlove has represented land developers, landowners, golf courses, ranchers, farmers, private water and energy utility businesses, government agencies, and private equity investment firms. He also served for five years as the legislative liaison for the Arizona Department of Water Resources, during which time he managed several bills that were enacted, including the 2007 Water Adequacy Amendments. Mr. Breedlove has experience with the Arizona legislative process, bill drafting, and government relations. He earned his B.S. degree from Western Washington University, his Master of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School and his J.D. degree from Vermont Law School.

 Mr. Burnside covers water rights and water quality as part of a broad-based environmental and natural resources law practice at Snell & Wilmer. Mr. Burnside regularly counsels and represents significant water interests in the State of Arizona, with a particular focus on mining and energy. He has extensive experience litigating contested water rights claims in Arizona’s Gila River General Stream Adjudication, including multiple arguments and trials before the Special Water Master. Mr. Burnside has in-depth experience with the complex legal and technical issues surrounding Arizona water rights at the intersection between groundwater and surface water.

Joan Card’s principal focus on water quality matters, including surface water quality standards and permitting, groundwater regulation and cleanup, and safe drinking water regulation and compliance. She advises and represents clients in permitting and enforcement actions under the Clean Water Act–including the section 402 (NPDES) and 404 (dredge and fill) permitting programs, the Safe Drinking Water Act. She has significant experience working with municipalities facing environmental legacy soil, ground, and source water impacts from industrial activity, ranging from century-old hard-rock mining impacts to more recent challenges resulting from the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Joan advises clients and colleagues working to address the challenges and opportunities around water quality and water resource management, watershed health, and water infrastructure planning, finance, and development.

Her experience includes serving as an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Arizona Office of the Attorney General where she represented the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in administrative and other environmental enforcement litigation. She went on to serve as an Attorney Advisor in the Phoenix Field Solicitor’s Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior where she counseled the Bureau of Reclamation’s three Lower Colorado River offices on water and natural resource matters before serving as Director of the ADEQ Water Quality Division. Joan also has also managed the environmental regulatory affairs program for Park City, UT and served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Region 8 Office of the EPA in Denver, CO.

Mr. Decker represents mining and other industry sectors in Arizona (and surrounding states) with respect to various state and federal-based water quality and mine reclamation and closure programs, including the aquifer protection permit program, Arizona’s pollutant discharge elimination system permit program, impaired water determinations and listings, development and implementation of total maximum daily load requirements, development of surface and aquifer water quality standards, and state certification of federal water quality permits/approvals. He participates actively as a member of the Arizona Mining Association and Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and he lobbies federal and state governmental agencies on water quality statutory, regulatory, and policy-based issues to the benefit of industry in Arizona. He is a fifth generation native of Arizona, having spent his early years (until college) in the northeastern Arizona town of Snowflake while working on his parents’ farm and cattle ranch. 

Mr.Dixon along with his litigation practice, he advises clients on water law issues. This includes helping clients in various industries, ranging from developers to mines, with issues relating to water rights, supply and transfer.

Mr. Larson is a faculty fellow in the Center for Law and Global Affairs, and the Center for Law, Science, and Innovation. He is also a senior research fellow with the Kyl Center for Water Policy at ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Professor Larson’s research and teaching interests are in property law, administrative law, and environmental and natural resource law, in particular, domestic and international water law and policy. 

Professor Larson’s research focuses on the impact of technological innovation on water rights regimes, in particularly transboundary waters, and on the sustainability implications of a human right to water. He works on dispute resolution and improved processes in water rights adjudications in Arizona and the Colorado River Basin with the Kyl Center for Water Policy. He is the Principal Investigator on a USAID-funded applied research project improving water supplies for refugee host communities in Lebanon and Jordan. Professor Larson was a visiting professor and Fulbright Scholar at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, a PLuS Alliance visiting fellow with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, a Lady Davis Fellow and visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Just Add Water: Solving the World’s Problems Using its Most Precious Resource (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Professor Larson also practiced environmental and natural resource law with law firms in Arizona, focusing on water rights, water quality, and real estate transactions.

Ms. McKenna, PG is a principal hydrogeologist at Montgomery & Associates, a water resources consulting firm headquartered in Tucson. Juliet helps clients in the municipal, tribal, and nonprofit sectors navigate challenging waters through regulatory and policy guidance, water portfolio planning, and hydrogeologic investigations. She is a frequent speaker on Arizona water issues for community groups. She is a member of the City of Tucson Citizen’s Water Advisory Committee, Chair of the Water Resources Committee of AZ Water, co-founder of Arizona Water Professionals Appreciation Week, and a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center. 

Mr. Ohm’s teaching, research, and outreach focus on the legal and institutional framework for planning. Mr. Ohm joined the UW faculty in 1994, and he holds a joint appointment with the University of Wisconsin Extension where he is the state specialist in land use law, environmental regulation, and growth management. He also has affiliate appointments with UW’s Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. Mr. Ohm served as chair of the Department of Urban & Regional Planning from 2008 – 2012. Prior to joining the faculty at UW, Mr. Ohm worked as an attorney for the Metropolitan Council, the regional governing body for the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. While at the Council he was involved in numerous regional planning initiatives involving land use, affordable housing, natural resources, transportation, governance, and local public service delivery. Prior to that he worked as an attorney in private practice for the Minneapolis law firm then known as Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd., where he specialized in litigation involving land use, eminent domain, and complex securities fraud. Mr. Ohm holds a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School, a Master of Arts degree in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College with majors in History and Political Science.