Agenda

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Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before start time.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024
8:30 am – 3:30 pm CDT

 

Researching and Interpreting Land Records
Presented by B. Savage

  • Title research vs. boundary research
  • Historical research
  • Genealogy and research
  • What measurements really mean in a land description
  • Importance of the words we use in descriptions
  • Resolving conflicts in land evidence

Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements

Presented by B. Savage

  • 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
  • Utility easements

Avoiding, Identifying and Resolving Ethical Issues in Land and Water Transactions
Presented by C. Shattuck

  • Avoiding state ethics violations with public officials and employees
  • Reviewing common professional responsibilities in land transactions
  • Assuring compliance with frequent professional obligations

Understanding Riparian Rights and Access to Surface Water
Presented by R. Pritchett

  • History and development of riparian rights
  • Determining land boundaries near the water line
  • Determining access rights to surface waters
  • Limitations on rights to surface waters
  • Complying with water quality laws and regulations

Understanding Groundwater Rights
Presented by R. Pritchett

  • Ownership of groundwater
  • Regulation of groundwater rights
  • Obtaining groundwater rights
  • Well drilling rights: application and permitting process
  • Current issues in groundwater rights

 

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Credits

Engineers
6.0 PDHs

Land Surveyors
6.0 PDHs

Attorneys
Pending

APA/AICP - American Planning Association/American Institute of Certified Planners
6 CM

 

Continuing Education Credit Information

This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in Alabama. The Alabama Board for Engineers and Land Surveyors does not pre-approve courses; it is the licensee’s responsibility to determine eligibility.

This webinar has been submitted to the Alabama State Bar for continuing legal education accreditation, which is currently pending. Visit this course listing at www.halfmoonseminars.org for updates on pending credits.

HalfMoon Education is an approved CM Provider with the American Planning Association. This course is registered for CM | 6 for Certified Planners. Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the webinar for those who attend the entire course and score a minimum 80% on the quiz that follows the course (multiple attempts allowed).

On-Demand Credits

The preceding credit information only applies to the live presentation. This course in an on-demand format may not be eligible for the same credits as the live presentation; please consult your licensing board(s) to ensure that a structured, asynchronous learning format is appropriate.

Speakers

Barry E. Savage, PLS

Survey Products Group Manager with Tennessee Valley Authority in Chattanooga, TN

Prior to his service at TVA, Mr. Savage was in private survey practice for 10 years specializing in dispute resolution and expert witness services. He has surveyed several disputed state boundaries to resolve jurisdictional conflicts. Mr. Savage is an adjunct professor at Cleveland State Community College where he teaches courses in boundary law, geodesy, GIS, and surveying fundamentals. He has researched and retraced the historical surveys of Henry David Thoreau and has published several articles on the subject. Mr. Savage teaches exam review and continuing education seminars at various state and local conferences across the country.

Cooper Shattuck

Attorney at Law Cooper Shattuck, LLC

Mr. Shattuck is a practicing attorney and neutral (Cooper Shattuck,
LLC); primary instructor with Alabama Mediation Training; engaged principal of Cartography Consulting, LLC (which provides full-service marketing and business consulting services); frequent facilitator for strategic planning sessions and strengths-based personal assessments, team building and leadership training; and a regular speaker on mediation, negotiations, ethics, marketing, and other continuing legal education topics. In each of these roles, Mr. Shattuck calls on his unique practice experiences which range from firm private practice, to Governor’s legal advisor, to general counsel of the University of Alabama System, and longtime adjunct professor of law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Mr. Shattuck earned his B.S. degree in Economics from Georgia Tech in 1987 and his J.D. degree from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1990.

Rebecca Wright Pritchett

Ms. Wright Pritchett is an experienced environmental, natural resources, and oil and gas attorney, focusing on the intersection of government and business. With a deep background in environmental and natural resources law, Ms. Wright Pritchett’s practice includes environmental permitting and compliance, enforcement defense, brownfield redevelopment, hazardous waste, CERCLA contribution and cost recovery, water quality, water rights, oil and gas exploration and production, mining, timber, legislative drafting, and lobbying. She is a member of the Alabama State Bar and the past chair of its Environmental and Natural Resources Section, actively involved in the Alabama Center for Real Estate’s Leadership Council. Ms. Wright Pritchett is the former president of Birmingham Commercial Real Estate Women (BirminghamCREW). She is a former regulator, having served for eight years on the Alabama Oil & Gas Board where she oversaw the exploration and production of oil and natural gas in the state. She is Alabama’s appointee to the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission’s Environmental Committee. Ms. Wright Pritchett has held numerous leadership roles in the American Bar Association since joining in 1994, including serving on the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources’ governing Council. She serves as the National Wildlife Federation’s Eastern Vice-Chair of its Board of Directors and is past president of the Alabama Wildlife Federation. Ms. Wright Pritchett earned her B.S. degree in Journalism and Public Relations from the University of Southern Mississippi, and her J.D. degree from the University of Oregon School of Law, where she also received a Certificate of Completion in Environmental and Natural Resources Law.

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