Agenda

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Wednesday, August 14, 2024
9:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT

 

Understanding Highway Rights-of-Way 
Presented by: Mikal J. Krueger

  • Types of public and private roads in New York
    • 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
  • Rights included in right-of-way
  • Landowner rights
  • Maintenance of right-of-way
  • Alterations and encroachments

Understanding New York Utility Facilities, Easements and Rights of Way
Presented by: Carol Sigmond

  • Current law on utility equipment and rights of way
    • Federal laws and regulations
    • State laws and regulations
  • Types of utilities, facilities and rights-of-way/easements
    • Electric, water, natural gas, telecommunications, satellite communications
  • Basis for and definition of the right-of-way/easement
  • Encroachments and interferences
  • Nuisances
  • Maintenance
  • Environmental issues
  • Condemnation law
  • Utilities and adjacent properties
  • Current issues involving utility easements

 

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Credits

Attorneys
7.0 CLE Hours

Engineers
6.0 PDHs*

Landscape Architects
6.0 HSW CE Hours*

LACES - Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System
6.0 HSW PDHs

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 landscape architects in New York. *HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York engineers and landscape architects via its registration with the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA/CES). 

The Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System has approved this course for 6.0 HSW PDHs. Only full participation is reportable to the LA CES.

This webinar provides 7.0 CLE hours to attorneys licensed in New York. HalfMoon Education is certified by the New York State CLE Board as an Accredited Provider of CLE programs. This nontraditional course offers 7.0 Areas of Professional Practice CLE hours, which are appropriate for experienced attorneys. HalfMoon Education will provide financial hardship assistance to New York attorneys who wish to attend this event. Contact Frank Chapman at fchapman@halfmoonseminars.org for details and to apply.

HalfMoon Education is an approved CM Provider with the American Planning Association. This course is registered for CM | 6.0 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 does not qualify for any continuing education credits in New York.

Speakers

Mikal J. Krueger

Attorney with McConville Considine Cooman & Morin PC.

Mr. Krueger’s main areas of practice include Residential and Commercial Real Estate, Zoning, Land Use and Development, and Commercial and Consumer Bankruptcy. He is a member of the New York Bar Association, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and the Monroe County Bar Association (Chair, Bankruptcy Committee). Mr. Krueger earned his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Canisius College of Buffalo, and his J.D. degree from Syracuse University College of Law.

Carol A. Sigmond

Attorney at Nossaman, LLP in New York, NY

With more than four decades of legal experience, Ms. Sigmond focuses her practice on construction and real estate industry matters, including arbitration, appeals, bid protests, contract preparation, mediation, litigation, receivership and suretyship. She represents clients in construction defect litigation relating to issues that arise when adjacent owners develop their properties, as well as expediting a builder’s construction project by ensuring that the proper contracts are in place.

As a seasoned practitioner, Ms. Sigmond has a history of litigating construction disputes for public works and buildings in both the public and private sectors. She also has extensive knowledge of preparing contract documents, including design-build, construction management, guaranteed maximum price, and fixed-price contracts. Additionally, Ms. Sigmond is an experienced mediator and arbitrator handling construction or real estate cases for the New York County Supreme Court Commercial Division Roster of Volunteer Mediators and the American Arbitration Association’s Roster of Construction Industry Arbitrators.

For several years, Ms. Sigmond has taken an active role in shaping the construction law community in New York. She is a former Vice President of the New York State Bar Association and a former President of the New York County Lawyers Association. Ms. Sigmond is also a frequent speaker and has authored a number of legal publications relating to construction law and publishes “The Co-Op Condo Help Line” in the monthly Mann Report. Furthermore, she was a member of Law360‘s 2020 Construction Editorial Advisory Board.

As a recognized leader, Ms. Sigmond was presented with the Boris Kostelanetz President’s Medal in 2024 by the New York County Lawyers Association, named among the Crain’s New York Business “Notable Women in Law” list for 2022, and the New York State Bar Association’s 2020 “Real Estate Section Award for Professionalism. In addition, she also received the Albert Nelson Marquis “Lifetime Achievement Award” by Marquis Who’s Who in 2019. She is also listed as “Top Rated” by New York Super Lawyers for Construction Litigation.