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Ms. Lathrop is licensed as a professional land surveyor in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and as a professional planner in New Jersey. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and has been involved in surveying since 1974 in projects ranging from construction to boundary to environmental land use disputes. Ms. Lathrop is also a certified floodplain manager through the Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) and a certified floodplain surveyor through the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors. A former adjunct instructor at Mercer County College in New Jersey, she has also taught as part of the team for the licensing exam review course at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. Ms. Lathrop has been teaching seminars for surveyors since 1986 and has been writing articles for surveyors since 1983. She is a contributing editor for The American Surveyor magazine, and she has four articles included in the American Bar Association’s text, Land Surveys: A Guide for Lawyers and Other Professionals. She and Stephen V. Estopinal, PLS, PE co–authored a book entitled Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions: Composition, Construction, and Comprehension, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2011. She is also on the faculty of GeoLearn, a web-based educational provider. Ms. Lathrop is a past president of the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors and of the National Society of Professional Surveyors, and she has served on the Board of Directors for the American Association for Geodetic Surveying.

Dr. Meyer is a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at UConn’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR). He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and he is a fellow and past president (2016, 2019) of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying. Dr. Meyer is a past president (2006-2007) of the Geomatics Society of New England (previously known as the New England Section ACSM) and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Surveying Engineering and Surveying and Land Information Science. Dr. Meyer earned his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University (College Station, 1998) where he was a research associate in the Mapping Sciences Laboratory. He was named a UConn Teaching Fellow (2015), and he has taught geomatics courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in geodesy, geographic information science, digital terrain modeling, spatial statistics, and global navigation satellite system surveying. Dr. Meyer has authored an undergraduate-level geodesy textbook and numerous peer-reviewed papers about surveying and mapping, and he teaches professional education seminars for surveyors throughout New England and the United States.

Mr. Banks is the principal attorney at Banks & Associates, PLLC, a Houston-based law firm focused on meeting the needs of government and construction contractors throughout Texas. He is a trusted advisor for licensed professionals, CEOs and managers in construction firms, and government contractors. Mr. Banks was licensed as a CPA in 2003 and has more than 20 years of experience as a lead accountant and CFO for successful government contractors. He earned his B.B.A. degree with a double major in Accounting and Finance from the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston and secured his J.D. degree from South Texas College of Law. Mr. Banks is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He is a member of the Construction Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.

Mr. Pasheilich represents clients in environmental litigation and provides counseling as to a wide range of environmental matters, including regulatory compliance and enforcement related to air, water and solid & hazardous waste media.  Gary advises clients regarding environmental due diligence for commercial property transactions, offering advice and strategies for reducing potential liability risks.  Prior to entering private practice, Gary served as an Assistant Ohio Attorney General in the Environmental Enforcement Section, representing the State of Ohio and the Director of Ohio EPA.

Mr. Pempus has been a risk manager for more than 18 years, with experience in architecture, engineering, land use, law and professional liability insurance, and a unique and well-rounded background in the construction industry. Prior to risk management, he has 25 years of experience in the practice of architecture and engineering, and as an adjunct professor teaching professional practice courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels for the last 37 years. As a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and AIA National Ethics Council 2021 chair, he has demonstrated his impact on architectural profession. He is a licensed architect, attorney and property and casualty insurance agent.

Ms. Skulski has more than 30 years of professional experience as a consultant, instructor, and researcher advocating for the inclusion of people with disabilities in parks, recreation, and tourism. She has diverse expertise in the Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility standards specific to recreation facilities and outdoor recreation environments, program access provisions required under Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, accessibility assessments, transition planning, and universal design.  Jennifer is the Principal of Skulski Consulting LLC and the publisher of Accessibility Management News, a monthly e-newsletter focusing on the news, emerging trends, people making access happen, and top things every ADA/504 Coordinator should know to make their job in accessibility management easier.

Ms. Holmok’s experience has centered on stormwater control, weather resiliency, and pedestrian experiences in challenging urban sites. As a Landscape Architect, Ms. Holmok has been designing green & blue elements for over 26 years. Notable projects include design and oversite of ultra-urban green infrastructure elements integrated within the two-mile, six-lane expansion of the City of Philadelphia’s I-95 (Girard) project; Akron’s Citywide Green Infrastructure Toolbox, including design of green and complete Aqueduct Street, and the Kelly (CSO Rack 3) Green Project; one-mile long City of Cleveland’s $9 million dollar Fleet Avenue Complete and Green Street; Cuyahoga River Bank stabilization projects for the National Park Service; and numerous green infrastructure retrofit demonstration projects in the City of Cleveland.

Mr. Bryant focuses his practice on construction law. He writes and negotiates construction contracts for private and public projects, representing participants including owners, architects, engineers, general contractors, and subcontractors. Mr. Bryant resolves construction project performance and payment disputes, including surety bond claims and mechanics lien claims. He also represents owners and contractors in litigation matters including defense and prosecution of breach of contract, warranty, and construction defect claims. Mr. Bryant has defended design professionals against claims of professional negligence. He has written and spoken on many construction-related topics, including contract negotiation, public construction, and licensure of construction professionals. Among other organizations, he is a member of the Steering Committee of the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law Division 7 for Insurance, Surety, and Liens.

Mr. Fischer has over 30 years of experience in the survey field, performing 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 surveyor licenses in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi and Texas.

Richard F. Friedman is experienced in municipal law, real estate law, public finance, litigation, eminent domain, historic preservation, employment law and appellate practice. Mr. Friedman is a managing member and has been affiliated with Neal & Leroy, LLC since 1983. Prior to joining Neal & Leroy, LLC, Mr. Friedman was a member of the City of Chicago Law Department’s Appeals and Review and Finance Divisions. Mr. Friedman represents clients in appeals at all state and federal levels. Mr. Friedman was awarded a diversity and inclusion grant for his teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Friedman was named a 2019 Leading Lawyer in Land Use, Zoning, and Condemnation Law.

Mr. Olsen is a Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc., a Civil Engineering and Surveying Firm based in Chesterfield, Missouri. He has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional land surveyor, beginning in the Chicago metropolitan area. Mr. Olsen is currently licensed as a land surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Texas. He has been fortunate to have worked on numerous Highway Department/Department of Transportation horizontal and vertical control surveys, land acquisition and topographic surveys, County Transportation Department Plats of Highway, and Municipal Highway Department surveys. Mr. Olsen has also worked on many commercial and residential developments throughout northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana. He is currently enrolled in the University of Maine Graduate School in the Eng. D. (Doctor of Engineering) Engineering Technology/Surveying Engineering Program. Mr. Olsen has an MS in Engineering Technology/Surveying Engineering from the University of Maine and a BA in Mathematical Sciences. He has presented seminars and webinars previously with HalfMoon Education on topics including Law and Ethics of Illinois Land Surveying; Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (and on the Ground); Complying with Minimum Standards of Practice; Handling Ethical Issues in Land Surveying Practice; Complying with the Illinois Plat Act; Complying with National Society of Professional Surveyors Creed and Canons.

Mr. Wance is a shareholder and former chair of Buchalter’s Land Use Practice Group. He has built a cross-disciplinary practice involving land use and entitlements, water resources, environmental compliance, natural resources, and public law through the representation of both public agencies and private businesses throughout California. Mr. Wance has handled all aspects of these substantive areas, from advising clients regarding the applicability of the law, to guiding clients through a permitting or entitlement process, or defending clients subject to enforcement actions. He successfully represented businesses and public agencies in sophisticated financial, real estate, water resource, environmental compliance, and land development matters in court and before administrative agencies. Mr. Wance’s land use and entitlement background includes representation of residential developers, public entities, major industrial facilities, and other commercial businesses in all phases of project development before local and state agencies, city councils, and county board of supervisors. He has assisted clients in obtaining development and environmental permits and project approvals for power plants, schools, mixed-use, and industrial development projects.

Mr. Horneman, PLS/GISP, has been working in the survey/geospatial field since joining the U.S. Army Reserves in 1984 as a geodetic surveyor. He attended the Defense Mapping School (now the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) in Fort Belvoir for geodetic surveying and received continuing education at the U.S. Army Professional Development Institute, the Community College of the Air Force, and various conferences, acquiring more than 400 continuing education credits in surveying, mapping, geology, GIS, and engineering. Mr. Horneman’s experience over the past 40 years includes surface and underground mining surveying, design and permitting, boundary and topographic surveys, ALTA surveys, subdivisions, construction surveying, GIS oversight, oil and gas wells and pipelines, and consulting. He has worked with several small to large private engineering and survey firms, as well as the U.S. Government (U.S. Army Reserves, U.S. Air Force Reserves, and as a civilian with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers). Mr. Horneman retired from the Reserves as a Master Sergeant with 24 years of service. He currently works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, as the Deputy Chief of Real Estate/Chief of the Geospatial Branch for cadastral projects and GIS base mapping. Mr. Horneman is also managing his own firm, Horneman Surveying, LLC. He has been teaching professional classes for the last 15 years in various continuing education venues, including Half Moon Education, PSLS, and WVSPS. Mr. Horneman is licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York, and is also a GIS Professional. He is a past president of the PSLS Southwest Chapter and has served as the PADEP‐PSLS Liaison Committee chair and on the Geospatial Committee and Legislative Committee. Mr. Horneman resides in Natrona Heights, PA, with his wife Sharon of 32 years, living near his four grown sons (two which are surveyors) and two grandchildren.

Gary Kent is in his 40th year with Schneider Geomatics in Indianapolis – having transitioned to part-time status in 2020. He also provides training, consulting and expert witness services as manager and owner of Meridian Land Consulting, LLC. He served as chair of the Joint ALTA/NSPS Committee responsible for the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey standards from 1995 to 2021. He has also served on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Surveyors since 2004 and is a past-president of both ACSM and the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors. Mr. Kent has presented programs on boundary law, easements and rights of way, surveying standards and practice, and leadership multiple times in all 50 states.

Ms. Lathrop is licensed as a professional land surveyor in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and as a professional planner in New Jersey. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and has been involved in surveying since 1974 in projects ranging from construction to boundary to environmental land use disputes. Ms. Lathrop is also a certified floodplain manager through the Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) and a certified floodplain surveyor through the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors. A former adjunct instructor at Mercer County College in New Jersey, she has also taught as part of the team for the licensing exam review course at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. Ms. Lathrop has been teaching seminars for surveyors since 1986 and has been writing articles for surveyors since 1983. She is a contributing editor for The American Surveyor magazine, and she has four articles included in the American Bar Association’s text, Land Surveys: A Guide for Lawyers and Other Professionals. She and Stephen V. Estopinal, PLS, PE co–authored a book entitled Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions: Composition, Construction, and Comprehension, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2011. She is also on the faculty of GeoLearn, a web-based educational provider. Ms. Lathrop is a past president of the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors and of the National Society of Professional Surveyors, and she has served on the Board of Directors for the American Association for Geodetic Surveying.

Mr. Blake has practiced land surveying throughout central California and western Nevada. He is licensed in both states and is also a certified federal surveyor. He specializes in surveys to support large public works infrastructure projects. He also serves as an expert witness in disputes involving boundary survey or land title issues. He currently works as the Mapping Department manager for Hawkins and Associates in Modesto, California. In his previous positions he worked as the Mapping Department manager for O’Dell Engineering and the assistant surveyor manager for KSN in Stockton, California. Mr. Blake serves as a volunteer on the Land Surveyor Technical Advisory Committee to the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists. He is currently the president of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter and the vice president of the American Council of Engineering Companies Central California Chapter. Mr. Blake teaches at surveying and GIS events around the Western United States.

Gary Kent is in his 40th year with Schneider Geomatics in Indianapolis – having transitioned to part-time status in 2020. He also provides training, consulting and expert witness services as manager and owner of Meridian Land Consulting, LLC. He served as chair of the Joint ALTA/NSPS Committee responsible for the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey standards from 1995 to 2021. He has also served on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Surveyors since 2004 and is a past-president of both ACSM and the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors. Mr. Kent has presented programs on boundary law, easements and rights of way, surveying standards and practice, and leadership multiple times in all 50 states.

Gary Kent is in his 40th year with Schneider Geomatics in Indianapolis – having transitioned to part-time status in 2020. He also provides training, consulting and expert witness services as manager and owner of Meridian Land Consulting, LLC. He served as chair of the Joint ALTA/NSPS Committee responsible for the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey standards from 1995 to 2021. He has also served on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Surveyors since 2004 and is a past-president of both ACSM and the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors. Mr. Kent has presented programs on boundary law, easements and rights of way, surveying standards and practice, and leadership multiple times in all 50 states.

Ms. Lathrop is licensed as a professional land surveyor in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and as a professional planner in New Jersey. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and has been involved in surveying since 1974 in projects ranging from construction to boundary to environmental land use disputes. Ms. Lathrop is also a certified floodplain manager through the Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) and a certified floodplain surveyor through the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors. A former adjunct instructor at Mercer County College in New Jersey, she has also taught as part of the team for the licensing exam review course at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. Ms. Lathrop has been teaching seminars for surveyors since 1986 and has been writing articles for surveyors since 1983. She is a contributing editor for The American Surveyor magazine, and she has four articles included in the American Bar Association’s text, Land Surveys: A Guide for Lawyers and Other Professionals. She and Stephen V. Estopinal, PLS, PE co–authored a book entitled Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions: Composition, Construction, and Comprehension, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2011. She is also on the faculty of GeoLearn, a web-based educational provider. Ms. Lathrop is a past president of the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors and of the National Society of Professional Surveyors, and she has served on the Board of Directors for the American Association for Geodetic Surveying.

Mr. Barkhurst has extensive litigation experience in business and real estate disputes. He has developed a special concentration in the area of eminent domain, representing governmental entities as well as landowners in numerous lawsuits. Mr. Barkhurst has successfully represented numerous owners in ranch power line takings. He also represents governmental entities in construction disputes, and he has represented contractors and subcontractors in private disputes. Mr. Barkhurst has a B.A. degree, with honors, from Southwest Texas State University and a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Texas Tech University, and he is a former USAF Captain and F-111 Aviator. 

Alejandra Galvan defends property owners in Texas and focuses her practice on representing and protecting the constitutional rights of Texas landowners facing eminent-domain lawsuits. Since getting licensed in Texas, Ms. Galvan has had the opportunity to defend landowners across Texas. Ms. Galvan cases have involved takings of vacant land, large ranches, residential properties, shopping centers, restaurants, apartment complexes, c-stores, and schools. She has defended property owners against various condemning authorities including local municipalities, counties, the Texas Attorney General’s office, pipeline companies, and utility companies. Ms. Galvan has presented on the topic of eminent domain at the ALI National Eminent Domain Conference in 2023, and at various County Town Hall meetings. Ms. Galvan was also honored to teach the 2021 Special Commissioner’s Training on behalf of the county court at law judges of Harris County. She is a member of the Houston Bar Association, the Houston Young Lawyers Association, the Mexican American Bar Association, the Hispanic Bar Association, the Christian Legal Society, and the Houston Trial Lawyers Association. She also volunteers her time to the Worklife Institute, a non-profit organization founded to provide educational programs, skills, and resources to our veterans.

Kyle Hlavinka is a civil litigation associate focusing on eminent domain and probate litigation matters. Kyle grew up on a farm in East Bernard, Texas, a small town west of Houston, where his family still grows rice, corn, and cotton. His interest in eminent domain began when HSC Pipeline Partnership, LLC took his family’s farmland to build a pipeline. During law school, Kyle took a course in eminent domain and private property rights and was able to follow his family’s case all the way up to the Texas Supreme Court, where they secured a favorable ruling for landowners regarding valuation in condemnation cases. See Hlavinka v. HSC Pipeline Partnership, LLC. Understandably, Kyle is passionate about helping farmers and ranchers in the State of Texas. He has spoken on his family’s case in front of CLE International’s Houston Eminent Domain Conference and the Eminent Domain Section of the Austin Bar Association. Kyle has also spoken at town halls and guest lectured at the University of St. Thomas.

Graham Taylor is an associate attorney representing clients in civil litigation and Texas eminent domain matters. Mr. Taylor earned his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 2018. During his second year, Mr. Taylor earned the Lex Award for the highest grade in his legal writing course and clerked with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, where he worked on complex medical fraud cases. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of St. Thomas (TX) in 2015 with a B.A. in Political Science and with distinction as the Outstanding Student in Political Science. During his undergraduate career, Mr. Taylor was captain of the mock trial team and president of the University of St. Thomas chapter of the National Political Science Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha.  Mr. Taylor is licensed in Texas and a member of the Houston Bar Association (HBA) and the Houston Young Lawyers Association (HYLA). 

Ryan S. Henry  graduated with honors from New Mexico State University with dual bachelor’s degrees in Criminal Justice and Psychology in 1995. He attended law school at Texas Tech School of Law and graduated in May of 1998. While attending law school, Mr. Henry began clerking for the Lubbock City Attorney’s Office. He received his third-year practice card and began prosecuting municipal court complaints and appearing in justice of the peace court for the City. As a result, he began representing governmental entities even before he graduated from law school. Upon graduation, Mr. Henry began working in Brownsville, Texas, with the same focus. In June of 2002, Mr. Henry moved to San Antonio and joined a local law firm and continued to represent governmental entities. In 2012, Mr. Henry started the Law Offices of Ryan Henry, PLLC. Ryan is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas, all federal courts in Texas, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Henry has been listed as one of the best lawyers in municipal law by S.A. Scene Magazine in the San Antonio area for multiple years. He has also been listed as a Texas Super Lawyer for multiple years. Mr. Henry is a city attorney for several cities including Windcrest, Texas and the Town of Hollywood Park, Texas. He is a prosecutor for multiple cities as well as a municipal court judge in three cities. He was the Chair on the council for the State Bar of Texas – Government Law section in 2019 and remains an active board member on the council.

Mr. Blake has practiced land surveying throughout central California and western Nevada. He is licensed in both states and is also a certified federal surveyor. He specializes in surveys to support large public works infrastructure projects. He also serves as an expert witness in disputes involving boundary survey or land title issues. He currently works as the Mapping Department manager for Hawkins and Associates in Modesto, California. In his previous positions he worked as the Mapping Department manager for O’Dell Engineering and the assistant surveyor manager for KSN in Stockton, California. Mr. Blake serves as a volunteer on the Land Surveyor Technical Advisory Committee to the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists. He is currently the president of the California Land Surveyors Association Central Valley Chapter and the vice president of the American Council of Engineering Companies Central California Chapter. Mr. Blake teaches at surveying and GIS events around the Western United States.

Mr. Miller is passionate about teaching UAS and geospatial education and leverages his experience in his current role as a professor in the Bay Area. Outside of academia, he is a technical trainer and entrepreneur. He started his business, Aerial Education, in 2018 to provide the highest-level training and consulting in the drone mapping industry. Mr. Miller’s interest in UAS began in 2013 when he started doing research for his master’s thesis. His blog, iphonedroneimagery.com, chronicles that research. He is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Geomatics Engineering at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Mr. Cabrera represents and advises real estate developers, investors, non-profit organizations, and individuals at all stages of property acquisition, land planning, zoning, and redevelopment processes. He has represented clients with real property disputes in state and federal court, including defending land use decisions of local governing bodies, quiet title actions, partition actions, and boundary line adjustments.

Laura Granier is a partner at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP. Ms. Granier’s practice includes regulatory work including government affairs with a focus on natural resources and land use and complex commercial litigation. She has successfully handled several issues of first impression involving mineral resources in Nevada, including a 2011 case enjoining enforcement of a state tax imposed on mining claims determined to be unconstitutional as well as cases involving complex land tenure issues and water rights. Ms. Granier has been involved in the land use planning process in Nevada for greater sage grouse conservation efforts and currently is lead counsel for a number of Nevada counties and private plaintiffs challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s and U.S. Forest Service’s decisions issued in that land use planning process. Ms. Granier has successfully handled litigation involving complex land tenure issues for various mining projects throughout Nevada. She has worked closely with legislators in previous sessions on challenging issues related to water, mineral resources, revenue, education and land use. Her regulatory experience includes a broad spectrum of work before various agencies with regulatory jurisdiction over environmental issues, mining, education, taxes, land use, and public utilities.

Gregory Morrison is a Shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer, PC. He has an array of experience in water, environmental, natural resource and real property law matters. Mr. Morrison advises a variety of private and public interests on matters involving water acquisition and permitting, environmental compliance on the state and federal level and property and mine development and disputes. He began his career in Carson City, Nev., where he was immediately immersed in one of Nevada’s most extensive administrative hearings involving water rights. He remained involved in that matter through the administrative, district court and Nevada Supreme Court processes. Mr. Morrison worked in conjunction with municipal, tribal and institutional parties toward the adoption of the 2008 Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA) as a federal regulation, a process involving administrative hearings in Nevada and California; modification of the 1944 federal court decree governing Truckee River operations; and judicial review in the state and federal courts of Nevada and California. Following a lateral move to Santa Barbara, Calif., Mr. Morrison returned home to northern Nevada in 2016 to Parsons Behle & Latimer’s Reno office. Since joining Parsons’ team, he has worked in water right permitting and maintenance for several Nevada mining industry clients as well as municipal water providers, developers and landowners to secure and permit water rights for commercial and residential projects. Mr. Morrison has extensive experience at every level of the water appropriation process, from negotiations between buyers and sellers through judicial review of decisions of the State Engineer in the Nevada Supreme Court. In his general real estate practice, he has negotiated and litigated land acquisitions, easements and rights-of-way and residential and commercial real property leases. Mr. Morrison also has experience in the mining sector and understands the unique processes of mine diligence, conveyancing and permitting.

Ms. Rudnick supports energy clients on disputes and regulatory issues related to project development in Nevada. She assists renewable energy developers, mining companies, and water purveyors with a range of environmental permitting and compliance matters. Ms. Rudnick assists clients in preparing regulatory filings, tax incentives and abatements, and other aspects of project finance and development. She also helps developers, lenders, and equity investors in large project finance transactions for energy production, storage, and transmission projects.

Mr. Stiteler’s practice is focused on real estate transactions and land use matters regarding residential, commercial and multi-family property development. Additionally, he provides counsel on real estate and commercial contracts, purchase agreements and other related matters. He is a member of NAIOP, Northern Nevada was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America as Ones to Watch, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate for 2023. Mr. Stiteler received his J.D. from the University of Nevada.

Taggart and Taggart, Ltd. has been long respected in the water rights arena, representing businesses and municipalities in transactional and litigation matters, his practice includes water rights acquisitions, sales, contracts, easements, well share and water delivery agreements, adjudications, permitting, extensions, transfers, certification, regulatory compliance and litigation of water rights disputes before state administrative bodies as well as State and Federal trial and appellate courts. Additionally, he practices real property, real estate, land use, redevelopment, complex and general civil litigation, and administrative proceedings. He provides his clients the unique combination of legal experience combined with particularly skilled considerable success in representation of clients and projects.  Mr. Taggart continues to be actively involved in working with and handling matters and individuals, corporate clients, business owners, contractors, developers, and lenders throughout Nevada look to him to represent them in complex water law cases and issues. 

Ms. Thiel has extensive experience in water rights matters. She has been qualified as an expert in Nevada water title before the Nevada State Engineer since 2015, and has reviewed and filed thousands of reports of conveyance for water rights across the state. Ms. Thiel represents clients in adjudication matters relating to the determination of vested water rights, in performance of due diligence in land and water transactions, in drafting opinion letters, and in permitting and regulatory compliance on water rights issues. Ms. Thiel also works on administrative proceedings at the State Engineer’s office, mitigation plans and permitting, and appeals of administrative decisions. She has provided research and support on ditch easement issues, and worked with irrigation companies relating to title, stock, and changes in water use. She has experience with water rights dedications for development with water municipalities, and effluent water re-use permitting. Ms. Thiel has extensive work in stockwater rights on federal and state range lands, including vested rights research, title, and permitting. Ms. Thiel also assists clients with real estate transactions. She has experience in preparing and reviewing easements, leases, deeds of trust and other securities.

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.