Agenda

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Thursday, October 30, 2025
9:00 am – 4:30 pm PDT


Agenda:

Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements
Presented by Glen Hansen

  • 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

Trespass, Adverse Possession and Other Unauthorized Access to Land
Presented by Simon Offord, Esq

  • Trespass – what constitutes trespass?
  • What potential damages exist for trespass?
  • Adverse possession
    • What is adverse possession?
    • How do you prove adverse possession?
    • Examples of cases where adverse possession is granted or denied
  • Other unauthorized use of land that could be exceptions to trespass
  • Prescriptive easement
    • How does prescriptive easement differ from adverse possession?
    • What does one get with a prescriptive easement?
  • Easement by necessity
    • When can trespass ripen into easement by necessity?
  • Equitable easement
    • When can trespass ripen into an equitable easement?
    • What remedies can the court give a trespasser in these cases?
  • Public or private necessity as a defense

Understanding Highway and Utility Rights-of-Way
Presented by Alan Forester, CPA

  • Types of public and private roads in California
    • Interstate highways, federal highways, state highways, county and local roads, private roads
  • Identifying potential rights-of-way
  • Negotiating and valuing rights-of-way
  • Condemnation process
  • 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
  • Basics for definition of the easement
  • Encroachments and interferences
  • Maintenance
  • Environmental issues
  • Condemnation law
  • Current issues involving utility easements

Eminent Domain Law
Presented by Bradford Grabske

  • Understanding eminent domain powers
    • Source of eminent domain powers
    • History of the exercise of eminent domain powers
    • Types of eminent domain “takings”
  • Just compensation: valuing “taken” property
  • Privatization of eminent domain and other current issues

Ethical Issues in Land Transactions and Development
Presented by Alan Forester, CPA

  • Accommodating the interests of land owners and communities
  • Enforcing environmental protections
  • Local control: is it necessary and who benefits?

 

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Credits

Engineers
6.5 PDHs

Land Surveyors
6.5 PDHs

Attorneys
6.5 CLE Hours (Including 1.0 Ethics Hour)

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

 

Continuing Education Information

This webinar is open to the public and provides a 6.5-hour learning opportunity for professional engineers and land surveyors in California. These professionals are not subject to continuing education requirements. This course may qualify for continuing education credits for professionals licensed in other states; refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.

HalfMoon Education is an approved MCLE Multiple Activity Provider for California attorneys (No. 8370); this webinar is designed to qualify for 6.5 CLE hours to California attorneys.

HalfMoon Education is an approved CM Provider with the American Planning Association. This course is registered for CM | 6.5 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*

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Speakers

Alan Forester, CPA

Attorney at Law with CPA Offices of Alan Forester in Beverly Hills, CA

Mr. Forester practices in the areas of tax and trust law, personal injury and criminal law. He also testified as an expert witness in various state and federal courts in California.  Mr. Forester is a Certified Public Accountant, Attorney, and Economist. As a CPA , he provides accounting, financial, and business valuation services. He received his M.A. in Economics and Finance, his Ph.D. Candidacy degree in Economics from UCLA, and his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.  Mr. Forester is an adjunct professor at California State University (CSU) and has teaching credentials in Accounting and Economics. He has taught tax, accounting, business law, statistics, and computer courses to graduate and undergraduate students. Mr. Forester is a Judicial Arbitrator of the Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County as well as a mandatory fee arbitration for the State Bar of California.

Bradford Grabske

Partner at Murphy & Evertz Attorneys at Law in Costa Mesa

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.

Glen Hansen

Senior Counsel at Abbott & Kindermann, LLP, in Sacramento

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.

Simon Offord, Esq.

Managing Partner at Brewer Offord & Pedersen, LLP, in Palo Alto

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 and also manages a real estate brokerage. He is regularly asked to be a speaker for local real estate organizations and brokerages, including SILVAR, Santa Clara County Association of Realtors®, Shasta 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 property matters.