Illinois Land, Surface Water and Groundwater Rights
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Agenda
Webinar instructions will be emailed before the date of the webinar.
Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before the start time.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
8:30 am – 4:00 pm CDT
Illinois Drainage Rights
Presented by: James A. Hochman
- Common law of drainage in Illinois
- Laws and regulations impacting drainage
- History of drainage easements
- Private drainage easements:
- Legal rights and responsibilities for draining surface water
- Rights of dominant and servient estate rights and obligations
- Common law drainage easements
- Public drainage easements
- Creation
- Maintenance and restrictions
- Resolving drainage disputes
Illinois Riparian/Littoral Boundaries and Access Rights
Presented by: Brian Fischer, P.L.S.
- Principles of boundary location for navigable rivers and lakes
- Non-navigable waters
- Erosion and accretion
- Meanders
- Artificial improvements
- Islands
- Floods and droughts
- Floodplains
- Wetlands
- Illinois access to surface waters
Illinois Groundwater Rights and Access
Presented by: James Moorhead
- Defining groundwater
- Groundwater hydrology
- Common law of groundwater access and use
- Current users of Illinois groundwater: identity and quantity of use
- Threats to groundwater quantity and quality
- Illinois Groundwater Protection Act
- Groundwater Quality Protection Program
Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements
Presented by: James Moorhead
- 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
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Credits
Attorneys
6.0 MCLE General Credit Hours
Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Land Surveyors
6.0 PDHs
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 Illinois. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Illinois.
This webinar has been approved by the MCLE Board of the Supreme Court of Illinois for 6.0 MCLE general credit hours.
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
Brian Fischer, PLS
Director of Surveying at THD Design Group, Inc.Brian Fischer has over 30 years of experience in the survey field, preforming a variety of survey types for residential, municipal, commercial, industrial and government agency clients. He has experience in survey instrumentation and computer aided drafting (CAD) programs, as well as office and survey programs such as Trimble Office, Carlson and Civil 3D. Management experience includes overseeing drafting and field crews, as well as a branch office for an Oil and Gas services firm in southeast Texas. A former adjunct faculty member for the Engineering Department at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, he holds Professional Land Surveyors licenses in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi and Texas.
James A. Hochman
Schain Banks Kenny & Schwartz Ltd.Mr. Hochman heads the Real Estate Brokerage Law practice group with Schain Banks and practices in the Real Estate practice group. He represents many commercial real estate brokerage firms, landlords, tenants, and commercial real estate investors, assisting in all phases of commercial and residential real estate. Mr. Hochman is also a licensed real estate managing broker. Beyond His experience, he also actively supports license portability legislation for commercial real estate brokers, and he is the architect and drafter of statutes in several states on this issue. Further, he sponsored (and co-authored) the Illinois Commercial Real Estate Broker Lien Act. Several states have adopted similar statutes through his drafting and lobbying efforts including Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Texas. Mr. Hochman serves as a faculty member for the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) teaching a course in commercial real estate leases and lease negotiations. He taught a course at John Marshall Law School (now known as University of Illinois Chicago School of Law) in the LLM for Real Estate Law Program in Real Estate Documents and Negotiation. After 22 years of service, Mr. Hochman retired as a Commander in the United States Naval Reserve with his final assignments as special assistant counsel to the U.S. Commander in Chief, Pacific Forces.
James Moorhead
Moorhead Law Group, LLCMr. Moorhead, after thirteen years of working in some of the most prestigious law firms in the U.S. and being selected as a “Forty Attorneys Under 40 to Watch”, He founded the Moorhead Law Group, LLC in 2012 as a focused, hard-working law firm based in Chicago, with a cost-effective practice that is national in scope. Mr. Moorhead’s main areas of practice are commercial real serves on Lake Forest’s Plan Commission and its Zoning Board and is assisting the City in updating its Central Business District comprehensive plan. He earned his B.A. degree from Georgetown University and his J.D. degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.