Agenda

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Thursday, May 9, 2024
8:30 am – 4:30 pm MDT

 

Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (and on the Ground)
Presented by: Nathan Osborn

  • 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 Private Easements
Presented by: Merc Pittinos & Joey Marks

  • 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 
Presented by: Amanda Jokerst & Katie Moisan

  • 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 possession
  • Examining recent eminent domain cases

Basics of the U.S. Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
Presented by: Barry Savage, PLS

  • The Northwest Ordinance
  • Principal meridians and baselines
  • The basic building blocks of the PLSS
  • The township, Ranges and Sections
  • Numbering sections
  • Irregular sections and aliquot parts

Describing and Locating Lands in the PLSS
Presented by: Barry Savage, PLS 

  • “Part of” descriptions
  • Reading a PLSS description
  • Writing a description
  • Websites for mapping and locating described lands

  

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Credits

Engineers
6.5 Hours Learning Opportunity

Land Surveyors
6.5 Hours Learning Opportunity

Attorneys
8.0 General CLE Credits

 

 

Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and provides a 6.5-hour learning opportunity to Colorado engineers and land surveyors. Colorado engineers and land surveyors are not subject to continuing education requirements.

This webinar has been approved by the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Continuing Legal & Judicial Education for 8.0 general CLE credits.  

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 is not pre-approved by any licensing boards and may not qualify for the same credits; please consult your licensing board(s) to ensure that a structured, asynchronous learning format is appropriate.

Speakers

Amanda Jokerst

Attorney with Fairfield and Woods P.C.

Ms. Jokerst specializes in navigating intricate litigation for her clients, ensuring efficient resolutions in both State and Federal courts. With comprehensive experience from initial pleadings to trial, she consistently prioritizes client interests while mitigating risks. Ms. Jokerst is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School with a J.D. cum laude and is admitted to practice in Colorado and Minnesota. Her expertise spans business and commercial litigation, land use, zoning, and real estate. Active in legal associations, Ms. Jokerst contributes to Fairfield and Woods’ Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, reflecting her commitment to excellence in the legal field.

Joey Mark

Partner at Moye White LLP in Denver, CO

Mr. Mark is a partner at Moye White LLP who specializes in real estate and commercial focused litigation.  He has litigated many quiet title actions involving access easement disputes including claims of adverse possession and necessity.  Mr. Mark’s real estate practice also involves ownership and purchase/sale disputes, landlord/tenant issues, partition, and commission disputes.  He is a native Coloradan having grown up in the Denver-metro area where he continues to reside with his wife and two children. 

Katie Moisan

Attorney with Fairfield and Woods, P.C.

Ms. Moisan specializes in real estate, oil and gas title, and land use matters. Her comprehensive approach, informed by in-house and private practice roles, allows her to advise clients on multiple facets and mitigate business risks. With expertise in land entitlements, development, and commercial leases, Ms. Moisan’s real estate knowledge is extensive. Additionally, as an oil and gas title attorney, she excels in handling intricate state, federal, and tribal titles related to water and land use issues.

Nathan Osborn

Attorney at Montgomery Little and Soran, PC

 Mr. Osborn is an Equity Shareholder with Montgomery Little & Soran in Greenwood Village, Colorado. His practice is focused on real estate litigation, real estate transactions, and commercial litigation.  Mr. Osborn also helps numerous real estate and medical businesses by acting as their full-service corporate attorney. In addition to his work for clients, He can be hired as an expert witness in cases involving real estate issues.  Mr. Osborn is licensed to practice in Colorado and Nebraska. He represents a broad mix of clients but primarily handles matters relating to real estate title and access disputes, title insurance, boundary disputes, landlord-tenant disputes, leases, foreclosures, title agent negligence, liens, easements, real estate purchases and sales, real estate development, condominium conversions, real covenants, spurious liens, partitions, and real estate broker license complaint cases. Mr. Osborn is also a trial attorney and has tried 40 cases in his career. He received the highest “AV Preeminent” rating from Martindale Hubbell in 2014 and has maintained this prestigious rating since then. Mr. Osborn was also recognized as a 2018 and 2019 Super Lawyers – Rising Star, Brochure. 

D. Merc Pittinos

Attorney with Moye White LLP in Denver, CO

Mr. Pittinos focuses his practice in the areas of real estate and commercial litigation. In his real estate litigation practice, Mr. Pittinos focuses on helping developers, landlords, and homeowners protect their property rights; he assists clients in resolving disputes over the purchase and development of real estate; and he frequently litigates disputes over boundaries, roads, easements, and leases. He has written and lectured about Colorado adverse possession law. Mr. Pittinos also helps to address real estate issues as a member of Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Englewood. In 2013 and 2014, he was selected as a rising star in real estate by Colorado Super Lawyers.

Barry E. Savage, PLS

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

Mr. Savage began his survey career while in college in 1981. He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering Technology. Mr. Savage worked for the next 10 years for various civil/survey firms in positions ranging from crew chief to senior designer. In 1993 he started Savage Surveying and Mapping. While operating his firm Mr. Savage surveyed several state lines to resolve jurisdictional conflicts. He served as survey consultant during the construction of the Ocoee Whitewater venue for the 1996 Olympics. Mr. Savage is currently the Survey Products Manager at the Tennessee Valley Authority providing survey services to support their seven-state service area. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Cleveland State Community College for 20 years where he teaches courses in boundary law, geodesy, and general surveying. Mr. Savage and his students have retraced the historical surveys of Henry David Thoreau on Walden Pond in Concord Massachusetts. He teaches continuing education courses on surveying and boundary issues across the country. Mr. Savage is a licensed surveyor in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.

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