Mr. Bryant focuses his practice on construction law. He writes and negotiates construction contracts for private and public projects, representing participants including owners, architects, engineers, general contractors, and subcontractors. Mr. Bryant resolves construction project performance and payment disputes, including surety bond claims and mechanics lien claims. He also represents owners and contractors in litigation matters including defense and prosecution of breach of contract, warranty, and construction defect claims. Mr. Bryant has defended design professionals against claims of professional negligence. He has written and spoken on many construction-related topics, including contract negotiation, public construction, and licensure of construction professionals. Among other organizations, he is a member of the Steering Committee of the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law Division 7 for Insurance, Surety, and Liens.

Kenneth Davies is Of Counsel at the law firm Heyl, Royster, Voeckler & Allen.  Mr. Davies’ practice focuses in real estate and commercial transactions, corporate organization, real estate development, land use laws, property disputes, and estate planning. He has represented clients in the creation of multi-million dollar subdivisions and condominiums, business acquisitions, shopping centers, and franchise agreements requiring the negotiation of such issues as matters of title, surveys, and environmental clean-ups. An accomplished litigator, he has successfully argued in the Federal Court of Appeals, winning groundbreaking cases resulting in a change it the way the United States administers its flood insurance policies. Mr. Davies serves on the Illinois State Bar Association’s Real Estate Section Council. In addition to drafting and reviewing proposed legislation involving real estate matters, he lectures throughout Illinois on real estate including matters involving realtors and real estate brokers, contracts, agency, fair housing, licensing, construction law and antitrust.

Mr. Olsen is a Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc., a Civil Engineering and Surveying Firm based in Chesterfield, Missouri. Mr. Olsen has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional land surveyor, beginning in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is currently licensed as a land surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Texas.

He has been fortunate to have worked on numerous Highway Department/Department of Transportation horizontal and vertical control surveys, land acquisition and topographic surveys, County Transportation Department Plats of Highway, and Municipal Highway Department surveys.

Mr. Olsen is currently enrolled in the University of Maine Graduate School in the Surveying Engineering Technology Program. He earned an MS in Engineering Technology-Surveying Engineering in 2024 and is currently working on an Eng.D in the same subject at UMaine. He has a BA in Mathematical Sciences. Mr. Olsen has presented seminars and webinars previously with HalfMoon Education on topics including Law and Ethics of Illinois Land Surveying; Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (and on the Ground); Complying with Minimum Standards of Practice; Handling Ethical Issues in Land Surveying Practice; Complying with the Illinois Plat Act; Complying with National Society of Professional Surveyors Creed and Canons. His article “The Changing Mosaic of Professional Land Surveying Licensure Requirements in the United States and its Territories” is to be published in the May 2026 Journal of Surveying and Land Information Science (SaLIS) of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS).  

Jonathan Phillips is a shareholder at the law firm Shay Phillips, Ltd.  Mr. Phillips focuses his practice on intellectual property and internet law, energy and utility law, and commercial litigation — especially in federal courts. At the Illinois Commerce Commission, he opposed several transmission and pipeline projects. Mr. Phillips has also created alternative routings (or defended against landowner created routing) for projects that have been adopted by the Commission. He has also opposed the grant of eminent domain power, and the exercise of that power in the Circuit Courts. Mr. Phillips assists landowners in easement negotiations with utilities, pipelines, and wind project developers.

Harvey Sheldon is a partner with the law firm Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP.  Mr. Sheldon has been engaged in the private practice of law, concentrating in environmental law, for more than 40 years, primarily on behalf of business clients. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Amherst College. Mr. Sheldon is a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, based in Chicago, where he concentrates on environmental law issues. He has been designated by peer vote as a “Leading Lawyer,” “Leading Attorney,” and “Super Lawyer,” and has held an “AV” ratingfrom Martindale-Hubbell over 30 years. He was the regional counsel for the United States EPA, Region 5, and the Chief ofthe Illinois Attorney General’s Environmental Bureau before that. He has taught environmental law at both Loyola University and John Marshall Law Schools. Respecting water law generally,Mr. Sheldon has advised clients on common law and statutory water rights, has litigated over water uses and discharges to water, and has negotiated statutory changes respecting water laws in Illinois and other states.