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Stephen A. McCullers is an Associate in the firm’s Environmental Practice. Stephen has a diverse environmental practice, assisting clients with complying with complex environmental, health, and safety regulations. Stephen also has expertise with air and water permitting, environmental due diligence and liability, and environmental litigation. 

 Before becoming an attorney, Stephen was a Natural Resources Specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He conducted environmental compliance inspections, issued environmental permits, and assisted in the management of federal land and natural resources. 

Ms. Rhodes focuses her practice in the areas of land litigation and divorce law. An experienced litigator and trial attorney, Ms. Rhodes is an assertive advocate for her clients. She has tried cases in over 15 North Georgia and Metro Atlanta counties before judges and juries on issues ranging from divorce and child custody to boundary line disputes, land titles, and contested probate estates. Ms. Rhodes earned her J.D. degree from the University of Georgia School of Law.

RLS, Survey Group Manager, Roswell, GA Office of CALYX Engineers + ConsultantsMr. Tunnell has over 29 years of experience in the land surveying field, serving in various roles such as survey crew chief, project manager, and survey and subsurface utility engineering (SUE) department manager. At CALYX, he is responsible for surveying operations, project management, quality control, and project delivery for all survey services in the Roswell office. In his career, Mr. Tunnell has managed a number of surveying and SUE projects for clients throughout Georgia. He also possesses strong relationships with government agencies, private contractors, and state, federal, and local clients. Prior to joining CALYX, Mr. Tunnell managed surveying services for various engineering firms in Georgia. He received his B.S. degree from Liberty University and a surveying certificate from Middle Georgia College. Mr. Tunnell is a registered land surveyor in Georgia and a professional land surveyor in Alabama.

Zausmer, August & Caldwell, P.C., Farmington Hills, MIMs. Boardman is a shareholder with Zausmer, August & Caldwell, P.C. She focuses her practice on eminent domain and commercial litigation around issues involving trade secrets, real property, construction, and business torts at the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts. Her clients include transmission companies, municipalities, publicly traded REITs, Fortune 500 corporations, small enterprises, and individuals. She frequently speaks on condemnation and right-of-way topics. Ms. Boardman earned her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan and has been recognized as a Michigan Super Lawyer and a Michigan Top Lawyer. In 2015, Michigan Lawyers Weekly named her to its elite annual list of “Women in theLaw.”

Dykema, Bloomfield Hills, MIMr. Estey has extensive experience in expediting land use entitlements, and resolving a wide variety of disputes related to zoning, planned unit developments, special land uses, variances, eminent domain, easements, adverse possession, boundary and title issues, and various regulatory and administrative challenges. For over a decade, he has handled hundreds of eminent domain proceedings for various energy industry clients including electric transmission providers and petroleum pipeline companies. Mr. Estey also has extensive experience in the siting of wireless telecommunication towers under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He serves as the chair for the State Bar of Michigan, Real Property Section Zoning and Land Use Committee. Since 2013, Mr. Estey has been recognized in Michigan Super Lawyers.

Dykema, Bloomfield Hills, MIMr. Fryer represents clients in a wide range of complex business, commercial and real estate litigation matters, including contract and commercial lease disputes, construction disputes, adverse possession, easement and other real estate disputes, and condemnation. He has experience in administrative proceedings before the Michigan Tax Tribunal and the Michigan Public Service Commission. Mr. Fryer has extensive experience with eminent domain law, representing electric transmission companies in the acquisition of property interests necessary for the construction, operation and maintenance of new transmission facilities. He also assists clients in the planning and siting of new transmission infrastructure, including both administrative and state- court litigation.

Steve M. Kelley was admitted to practice in Michigan in 1981. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and its Environmental, Insurance and Indemnity, and Appellate Law sections, and he is a past member of the Surface Water/Groundwater Committee of the Environmental Law Section. Mr. Kelley also is a member of the American Bar Association and its Environment, Energy & Resources, Litigation, and Tort Trial & Insurance Practice sections. He served as chair of the Environmental & Energy Policy Committee of the Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce (now Detroit Regional Chamber) for three years. Mr. Kelley has been named a Michigan Super Lawyer each year since 2008 and was elected a Life Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation. Admitted to all Michigan courts, he practices statewide from his office in St. Clair Shores. Mr. Kelley also served 16 years as a trustee of and four years as president of the Michigan Nature Association.

Ms. McLean joined Bolhouse, Baar & Hofstee in 2011 and became a partner in 2015. Prior to practicing law, she worked for a national mortgage lender and has over 15 years experience in this capacity. By combining her vast experience in the mortgage lending and real estate industries with the practice of law, Ms. McLean offers her clients a unique perspective as their advocate. She currently focuses her practice in the areas of real estate, family law, criminal defense, and civil litigation. She received her law degree from Michigan State University College of Law.

Zausmer, August & Caldwell, P.C., Farmington Hills, MI
Mr. Guttman’s practice focuses on business and real estate transactions, municipal law, eminent domain, and real property law. He has represented various clients in land acquisition and disposition matters, including the use of eminent domain and the negotiation of purchase agreements, leases, and other commercial agreements. He also contributed to the American Arbitration Association’s Handbook on Arbitration Practice. Mr. Guttman earned his undergraduate degrees from Michigan State University’s James Madison College and Broad College of Business before attending Wayne State University Law School.

Bolhouse, Baar & Hofstee, PC, GrandvilleMs. Tuttle joined Bolhouse, Baar & Hofstee in 2012 and focuses her practice in the areas of real estate, family law, criminal defense, and litigation. She has developed a reputation for negotiating creative resolutions for her clients and has achieved success through both mediations and trials. Ms. Tuttle is committed to listening, educating, and advising her clients to achieve the best possible outcome. She received her law degree from Michigan State University College of Law.

Mr. Noviello is an Attorney-at-Law, a Professional Engineer, and a Land Surveyor who enjoys teaching. In addition to teaching continuing education courses for Attorneys-at-Law, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Architects, he has taught real property law, survey law, alpine skiing, and, more recently, adaptive skiing. Mr. Noviello received his Masters of Engineering degree, his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering, with honors, and his AAS degree in Engineering, all from Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark. Mr. Noviello has maintained a professional engineering firm and a general practice law firm since 1984 and has practiced land surveying since 1991 including 10 years in industry and six years in government. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Mr. Noviello is a licensed Land Surveyor in New York and Connecticut. He is an Attorney-at-Law in New York and New Jersey State Courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Federal Court for the State of New Jersey.

Mr. Helfrich has been principal land surveyor with Craig R. Knoche & Associates, P.C. and its successor Koru Group PLLC in the Chicago area for the last 30 years. Mr. Helfrich first picked up a plumb bob in 1971 for Webster & Associates. From tape-and-transit to GPS, mortgage surveys to shopping centers, he has his seal on billions of dollars of commercial, residential and institutional developments and transactions in 23 counties in Illinois together with consulting and managing projects in 15 other states. Mr. Helfrich has enjoyed working with countless prominent developers, attorneys and other professionals in the field and the office. His specialties include real estate law, boundaries and boundary law, easements, rights-of-way and other encumbrances and servitudes, statutory and common-law plats, ALTA surveys, topography, building and site layout, construction- and project-management as well as land development consulting. He has presented classes and co-written manuals with the Illinois Institute For Continuing Legal Education along with classes at the University of Illinois and HalfMoon Education. Mr. Helfrich is a member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors and the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association.

Mr. Beatty concentrates his practice in the areas of civil, business and commercial litigation, including real estate litigation, boundary and border disputes, business torts, construction and lien law litigation, contract disputes, collections, foreclosures and title insurance claims. In addition, he represents insurance carriers, third party administrators, and employers in the defense of workers’ compensation claims. Mr. Beatty also handles appellate cases throughout the state of Florida. He is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Beatty holds an AV® Preeminent™ rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He was selected as one of Gulfshore Business Magazine’s and Business Observer’s (f/k/a Gulf Coast Business Review) top 40 Under 40. Mr. Beatty graduated from Wake Forest University, B.A., cum laude, in 1993, and graduated from University of Miami, J.D., cum laude, in 1996.

Ross, Lanier & Deifik, P.A., NaplesMs. Deifik has been board certified in real estate law by The Florida Bar since 1990. She focuses her practice on commercial litigation, with emphasis on real estate-related litigation, including foreclosure defense, purchase and sale contract litigation (including deposit recovery/forfeiture and specific performance), quiet title, partition, adverse possession and/or prescriptive easement, reformation of deed or plat, and declaratory judgment actions. Ms. Deifik earned her J.D. degree from the University of Florida College of Law.

Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., Fort Myers
Mr. Kelly is a lawyer (stockholder) at the Fort Myers-based law firm Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A. He helps his business clients in the areas of partner/shareholder/co-owner claims, creditors’ rights, and other contract-based claims. Mr. Kelly helps his real estate clients in the areas of eminent domain; inverse condemnation; Bert J. Harris, Jr., Private Property Rights Protection Act claims; purchase and sale disputes; landlord/tenant claims; and foreclosure. He speaks and writes for a variety of audiences, including the firm’s Legal Scoop on Southwest Florida Real Estate blog. The Florida Bar’s Eminent Domain Committee, The Florida Bar’s City, County & Local Government Section, and the Florida Association of County Engineers & Road Superintendents have featured Mr. Kelly as a lecturer on eminent domain topics. The American Bar Association published an article Mr. Kelly wrote about the use of eminent domain to condemn underwater mortgages (December 10, 2012 web post). The Florida Bar Journal has published several of his articles, including two that he wrote about eminent domain topics. Mr. Kelly is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. In addition to being admitted to all Florida state courts, he is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He graduated from The Florida State University in 1993, and graduated from Emory University School of Law in 1997.

GrayRobinson P.A., Fort MyersMr. Rooney practices in the areas of land use and local government law and is a board certified attorney in city, county and local government law. Mr. Rooney represents private and government clients on questions of general municipal law, land use and public-private partnerships. He currently serves as counsel to the Village of Estero, the Charlotte County Industrial Development Authority, the Lee County Metropolitan Planning Organization, and the Area Agency on Aging for Southwest Florida; and as special counsel to a number of other local government entities. He previously served as an assistant county attorney in the Charlotte County Attorney’s Office. While he has represented clients throughout the state, Mr. Rooney focuses on the needs of Southwest Florida and primarily practices in Charlotte, Collier, Desoto, Glades, Hendry, Lee and Sarasota counties. As a litigator, he concentrates on prosecuting and defending land use decisions before Florida courts, the Division of Administrative Hearings and a variety of state and local bodies. He also has extensive experience with claims under the Bert J. Harris, Jr., Private Property Rights Protection Act.

Founder of Richard J Fox PLLC in ShelburneMr. Fox is a Vermont native and a graduate of Charlotte Centra lSchool and Champlain Valley Union High School.  After leaving Vermont to attend Rutgers University and George Washington University Law School, Richard practiced law in Washington DC and Boston before returning to Vermont in 2004.  He has been elected by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, to the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Vermont Rising Stars list (for attorneys under the age of 40) and is a featured presenter at national andlocal continuing legal education (CLE) seminars on construction law, real estate law, landlord-tenant law, and title insurance for such providers of legal and professional education as the National Business Institute™, Lorman Education Services®, Institute for Paralegal Education™, Sterling Education Services,and NorthCap Educational Services.  Mr. Fox lives in Shelburne with his wife and family, and when he is not serving his clients, he serves his community in a variety of roles.

in UnderhillMr. Holden is a seventh generation Vermonter who was raised in Underhill.  He graduated from Paul Smith’s College of Artsand Sciences in 1988 with a degree in Land Surveying; he was licensed by the State of Vermont in 2000 and is currently the sole proprietor of a land surveying consulting business located in Underhill.  Mr Holden has served on the Executive Committee of the Vermont Society of Land Surveyors and in that capacity served on multiple legislative advisory committees and represented Vermont throughout New England.  He has volunteered his time in local government and continues to be an advisor to many surrounding municipalities.  In his free time, Mr. Holden enjoys Vermont history, mountain biking and backcountry skiing.

Attorney and owner of Annette Lorraine, PLC in MontpelierMs. Lorraine is an attorney licensed in Vermont and experienced in a variety of real estate matters, land conservation and related tax matters, nonprofits, small business, and other general practice areas.  She is an approved attorney with Stewart Title Guaranty Co.  Ms. Lorraine earned her bachelor of science degree from the University of San Francisco and her JD/MSEL degree from the Vermont School of Law.  She lives in the northeast kingdom area of Vermont surrounded by trees, moose, frogs and other critters.  She serves on her town selectboard, and fancies herself a weekend painter.

Mr. Davis is a professional land surveyor in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia, with over 30 years of experience. This varied experience includes small individual boundary surveys, surveys for both commercial and residential land development projects, ALTA Land Title Surveys, and surveys for long range transportation projects, including rail and highway. In addition, Mr. Davis is an adjunct faculty professor at the Community College of Baltimore County in the Surveying/ Civil Engineering program. Classes taught include Elementary Surveying, Survey Computations, Topographic Mapping, Sediment Control and Hydrology, and Storm Drain Design. In 2016, Mr. Davis was awarded the Russell E. Lowman Memorial Educational award from the Maryland Society of Surveyors for his contribution to the education of surveyors.

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 landowners as well as governmental entities in numerous such lawsuits, involving millions of dollars. Paul has successfully represented numerous owners in ranch power line takings, pipeline cases, and highway construction cases. Paul also represents governmental entities in construction disputes, and has represented contractors and subcontractors in private disputes. He also has extensive experience handling complex business dissolution and injunction cases. 

Branscomb | PC
Mr. Barton is a shareholder in the firm’s Business and Real Estate Groups. He has been practicing law for over a decade, representing businesses, title companies, developers, lenders, and individuals in a wide variety of business, financing, leasing, and real estate transactions. Prior to joining Branscomb | PC, Mr. Barton also represented title insurers and businesses in business and real estate litigation matters. This experience has assisted him in delivering legal services to the firm’s clients with an eye to avoiding litigation, and he is able to structure transactions to better protect clients in the event a dispute arises in the future.

Mr. Buck received a B.A. in Music and Sociology from Austin College in 2007 and a J.D. from Texas Tech University School of Law in 2011. He has practiced law in a variety of fields since his admission to the State Bar of Texas in 2011 and is currently a member in the litigation department of Branscomb Law in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Buck centers his practice on real estate litigation and has represented clients in title and boundary disputes, groundwater rights matters, rate-change cases at the PUC, and breach of contract and fraud cases involving sales of real estate. 

Partner at Ross Molina Oliveros, P.C.
Mr. Oliveros has experience in eminent domain litigation and real estate acquisition matters. He focuses on all aspects of large and small real estate acquisition projects for a diverse group of condemning authorities, including pipeline companies, utilities, counties, cities and other entities with the power of eminent domain. Clients use Mr. Oliveros to draft and negotiate easements and all other acquisition documents, purchase real property, review title and participate in condemnation and ancillary proceedings. In the past five years, Mr. Oliveros participated as the lead attorney for a right-of-way team that acquired property for and constructed hundreds of miles of different pipelines in the Eagle Ford area and negotiated well over 600 easements. He also worked closely with a right-of-way team to acquire land for a major 345 kV electric transmission line in Central Texas that spanned almost 300 landowners, and he participated in the acquisition of a strip mall with over 35 tenants. Mr. Oliveros is actively working on pipeline-related projects in South Texas and West Texas and CREZ transmission lines in the Hill Country and surrounding areas.

Uhl, Fitzsimons, Jewett, Burton & Wolff, PLLC
A native Texan, Mr. Park grew up in Austin and attended law school in San Antonio. He is a transactional attorney, whose practice focuses primarily on Texas oil and gas law, including drafting and negotiating leases, surface use agreements, seismic permits, pipeline agreements, disposal well contracts, royalty and mineral transfers, and royalty audits. He also has experience in the purchase and sale of commercial real estate and water rights, and in the sale and donation of conservation easements.

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.

Attorney at Rick Davis Legal in Overland Park, KSMr. Davis graduated from the University of Kansas before earning his law degree from Washburn University School of Law. He is licensed to practice in both Kansas and Missouri. After spending time as a partner with a large firm in South Florida, Mr. Davis returned to the Kansas City area and started his own practice. While at the previous firm, he represented many of the nation’s largest banks and mortgage servicing companies in the areas of residential real estate and mortgage lending. His practice focuses primarily on the areas of residential real estate and he regularly represents individual homeowners, contractors, landlords, property managers, home buyers and sellers, real estate agents, home owners associations and others within the real estate industry. Current and former clients include Bank of America, Ocwen, Lumber Liquidators, Stonehouse Rentals, Schaedler Enterprises, and Wells Fargo. Mr. Davis has been quoted as a real estate attorney in numerous national and local news publications, including, the Associated Press, ABC News, the New York Times, Realtor.com and the Kansas City Star.

Survey Manager at Kaw Valley Engineering, Inc. in Lenexa, KSMr. Dedrick is a professional land surveyor licensed in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and Tennessee. He has over 39 years of land surveying experience, performing over 2000 ALTA, boundary, topographic, engineering and control surveys. Currently Mr. Dedrick manages and directs five to seven survey crews in the performance of land surveys, geodetic control surveys, engineering surveys, global positioning (GPS) system control networks, and construction surveys. He is a speaker at the University of Missouri Kansas City Law School on Legal Aspects of Surveying and Boundary Description Creation and Interpretation. He is also a past member of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) national test writing committee. Mr. Dedrick is a past chairman of the Missouri Society of Professional Land Surveyors (MSPS) handbook committee. He revised the MSPS Survey Safety Manual, later adopted by the City of Lenexa, Kansas, and Miami County, Kansas, Survey Department. Mr. Dedrick was a contributing member of the National Geodetic Survey Height Modernization Committee in Washington, D.C. in 2000. He is also a previous speaker at the Kansas Society of Land Surveyors annual seminar and National Business Institute.

President at Quitmeier Law firm in Kansa City, MOMr. Quitmeier has been practicing law for nearly 40 years. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Kansas in 1973 and his Juris Doctor degree, also from the University of Kansas, in 1975. He is the owner of Quitmeier law firm and has held a real estate brokers license since 1977. Mr. Quitmeier is licensed to practice law in the states of Kansas and Missouri. He served as alderman for the City of Parkville from 1985 to 1991 and then as mayor from 1991 to 2002. Mr. Quitmeier is also an experienced teacher. He has taught environmental law at Park University and has teaching experience in the areas of real estate law, real estate contracts, and business law.

Associate at Anderson & Byrd, LLP in Ottawa, KSMr. Wilson received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in 2010 and received his law degree from Washburn University School of Law in 2014. He joined Anderson & Byrd, LLP in 2014 as an associate, and is admitted to practice before all courts in Kansas including the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Mr. Wilson is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The bulk of his experience lies with oil and gas law and electric utility regulation. Specifically, Mr. Wilson has practiced in the areas of title examination, transactional drafting, leasing disputes, general litigation, arbitration, disputes involving electric utilities, and representation before the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) on behalf of public utilities and oil and gas operators. He is a member of the Kansas Bar Association’s, Oil, Gas and Mineral Law section and is the president of the Franklin County Bar Association. Mr. Wilson is also the city attorney for Richmond, Kansas.

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.

Mr. Davis is a professional land surveyor in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia, with over 30 years of experience. This varied experience includes small individual boundary surveys, surveys for both commercial and residential land development projects, ALTA Land Title Surveys, and surveys for long range transportation projects, including rail and highway. In addition, Mr. Davis is an adjunct faculty professor at the Community College of Baltimore County in the Surveying/ Civil Engineering program. Classes taught include Elementary Surveying, Survey Computations, Topographic Mapping, Sediment Control and Hydrology, and Storm Drain Design. In 2016, Mr. Davis was awarded the Russell E. Lowman Memorial Educational award from the Maryland Society of Surveyors for his contribution to the education of surveyors.

Paesano Akkashian Apkarian, P.C., Bloomfield Hills, MIMr. Apkarian joined Paesano Akkashian Apkarian, P.C. in 2013. He was previously with Dickinson Wright PLLC for ten years. Mr. Apkarian is a trial lawyer who represents landowners and tenants in real estate litigation, including boundary disputes, property damage claims, lease disputes and eminent domain litigation. He also represents companies and individuals in a variety of business cases, including shareholder disputes, contract actions and collections. In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Apkarian negotiates and drafts numerous contracts and real estate documents. He received his law degree, with honors, from the University of North Carolina School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University. Mr. Apkarian has been named a “Super Lawyer” in Commercial Litigation by Michigan Super Lawyers each year since 2013.

PEA Inc., Brighton, MIMr. Beland is a professional surveyor for PEA where he is a senior project manager specializing in land development with a focus on acquisitions and redevelopment. Through his education and experience, he has learned that the most important part of any project is the people on the project team and how they cohesively work together toward the same vision. Whether it’s the client or the end user, understanding their needs, expectations and perceptions is paramount to the project’s success. Mr. Beland was most recently the Director of the Office of Land Survey and Remonumentation for theState of Michigan and brings 20+ years of experience in the land surveying industry in public and private practice. He graduated from Ferris State University with a BS degree in Surveying Engineering, and he graduated from Northwood University with an MBA degree in Business Management.

Dykema, Bloomfield Hills, MIMr. Estey has extensive experience in expediting land use entitlements, and resolving a wide variety of disputes related to zoning, planned unit developments, special land uses, variances, eminent domain, easements, adverse possession, boundary and title issues, and various regulatory and administrative challenges. For over a decade, he has handled hundreds of eminent domain proceedings for various energy industry clients including electric transmission providers and petroleum pipeline companies. Mr. Estey also has extensive experience in the siting of wireless telecommunication towers under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He serves as the chair for the State Bar of Michigan, Real Property Section Zoning and Land Use Committee. Since 2013, Mr. Estey has been recognized in Michigan Super Lawyers.

Dykema, Bloomfield Hills, MIMr. Fryer represents clients in a wide range of complex business, commercial and real estate litigation matters, including contract and commercial lease disputes, construction disputes, adverse possession, easement and other real estate disputes, and condemnation. He has experience in administrative proceedings before the Michigan Tax Tribunal and the Michigan Public Service Commission. Mr. Fryer has extensive experience with eminent domain law, representing electric transmission companies in the acquisition of property interests necessary for the construction, operation and maintenance of new transmission facilities. He also assists clients in the planning and siting of new transmission infrastructure, including both administrative and state- court litigation.

Steve M. Kelley was admitted to practice in Michigan in 1981. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and its Environmental, Insurance and Indemnity, and Appellate Law sections, and he is a past member of the Surface Water/Groundwater Committee of the Environmental Law Section. Mr. Kelley also is a member of the American Bar Association and its Environment, Energy & Resources, Litigation, and Tort Trial & Insurance Practice sections. He served as chair of the Environmental & Energy Policy Committee of the Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce (now Detroit Regional Chamber) for three years. Mr. Kelley has been named a Michigan Super Lawyer each year since 2008 and was elected a Life Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation. Admitted to all Michigan courts, he practices statewide from his office in St. Clair Shores. Mr. Kelley also served 16 years as a trustee of and four years as president of the Michigan Nature Association.

Zausmer, August & Caldwell, P.C., Farmington Hills, MI
Mr. Guttman’s practice focuses on business and real estate transactions, municipal law, eminent domain, and real property law. He has represented various clients in land acquisition and disposition matters, including the use of eminent domain and the negotiation of purchase agreements, leases, and other commercial agreements. He also contributed to the American Arbitration Association’s Handbook on Arbitration Practice. Mr. Guttman earned his undergraduate degrees from Michigan State University’s James Madison College and Broad College of Business before attending Wayne State University Law School.

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.

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.

As Chair of the Land Use and Real Estate Practice Group, Mr. Howsley’s practice focuses on land use and real estate development and is deeply intertwined to the home building industry in the Northwest. He is recognized regionally for his advocacy of the development community. Jamie represents companies, developers, and builders throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has successfully represented clients in a range of complex land use/development projects, including advocacy for large scale master planned developments throughout Washington and Oregon, getting new land into urban growth areas, and working with local governments on complex and creative financing tools to build necessary infrastructure.

Peter Mohr is an attorney with Jordan Ramis. As an environmental and natural resources lawyer, he is committed to helping clients secure both certainty and fairness within the regulatory context. Mr. Mohr has dealt with many different jurisdictions and agencies throughout the western United States during his career, providing a high level of expertise in state and federal law to both public and private clients involving environmental and natural resources, energy, and real property issues. With a practice that has a strong emphasis in water law, Mr. Mohr has successfully pursued water rights applications for agricultural, commercial, hydro power, special district and governmental uses before both state courts and administrative agencies. He has successfully defended senior commercial scale water rights against claims of statutory forfeiture, resolved numerous water facilities right-of-way and water rights title disputes, and has completed countless water rights transactions, large and small.

Armand Resto-Spotts, Attorney

Mr. Resto-Spotts is an attorney focusing on land use, real estate, and environmental law.  He represents homeowners, developers, and other municipal and industrial clients in a variety of compliance and permitting issues affecting real property, including local and state land use controls such as critical areas regulations and zoning. Mr. Resto-Spotts also advises and assists clients in drafting and reviewing the wide array of transactional documents affecting the use of real property, such as deeds, easements, covenants, and other real estate contracts.  Additionally, from his prior work advising municipal clients in Washington, he also has extensive experience in public records and open government law.

Christopher Sherby is a professional land surveyor and contract/project manager with 20 years of experience, holding licenses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Utah. He is an owner of S&F Land Services, a surveying and remote sensing firm with three offices throughout Oregon. Mr. Sherby’s experience includes performing field and office survey support on a range of projects from small boundary and topographic surveys to very large federal projects. Managing 15-35 person surveying teams for the past 10 years, he prides himself on encouraging the education and professional growth of staff at all levels. Mr. Sherby was previously an instructor in Oregon Institute of Technology’s Geomatics program and has been instructing classes at Clark College’s Surveying and Geomatics program for the past 10 years. He holds a B.S. degree in Geomatics from the Oregon Institute of Technology and is a 2012 graduate of Leadership Clark County.

Jacob Zahniser is an Attorney with Miller, Nash, Graham & Dunn, LLP. A construction lawyer, construction litigator, and trial attorney, Mr. Zahniser focuses his practice on construction and real estate litigation, as well as handling insurance coverage disputes arising from construction defects. As a construction lawyer, he has represented a wide variety of construction industry clients ranging from contractors, suppliers, and insurance policy holders and assignees, to commercial property owners, landlords, and homeowners associations. Mr. Zahniser is experienced in all forms of construction litigation, including payment disputes and lien claims, insurance coverage, leases, purchase and sale agreements, development rights, adverse possession, property lines and easements, and development disputes. He is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Oregon State Bar Construction Section.

Founding partner in the Law Firm of Hoffmeyer & Semmelman, LLCMr. Hoffmeyer concentrates his practice on real estate and zoning law, corporate law, estate planning, decedent’s estates, and elder law. He also serves as an expert witness in real estate as well as in professional malpractice in the legal, real estate and title insurance fields and in matters relevant to defects in real estate titles. He was the solicitor for the York County Tax Claim and Tax Assessment Office from 1979 to1988. Mr. Hoffmeyer’s abilities as an attorney are recognizedby his colleagues. He is an AV© Peer Review-rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell, and he has been recognized as a Super Lawyer for 11 consecutive years (2004-2014) and by The Best Lawyers in America for seven consecutive years (2009-2015.) A frequent lecturer, author and adjunct professor, Mr. Hoffmeyer has spoken for numerous organizations throughout Pennsylvania on topics such as real estate, legal ethics, professional ethics and title insurance. He also wrote five books on real estate law.

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.