Description
Exploring a full range of cutting-edge issues and drawing professionals from across the country, this annual conference is “the place to be” for all eminent domain and land use practitioners. Whether your interests include relocation, regulatory takings, inverse condemnation, or valuation issues, topics abound for everyone through a customizable curriculum.
Experienced practitioner? Choose from dual afternoon tracks addressing key issues in substantive takings law, or choose from an array of sessions chock full of practice pointers. New to the practice, or need a refresher? Attend the Condemnation 101 “bootcamp” sessions on Thursday, and then join the other attendees for the rest of the conference’s more advanced sessions.
Either way, you’ll learn from recognized and experienced professionals representing the diverse stakeholders in these cases. This year's topics include:
• Property Rights as Civil Rights: Seeking Justice Though the Fourth and Fifth Amendments
• Making Sense of the New Rules After Knick v. Township of Scott: Where Do I Go, What Do I Do?
• When A River Runs Thought It: Water Rights and Takings
• Passive Takings by Government Inaction
• Show, Don't Tell: The Dos and Don'ts of Demonstrative Evidence
• Is Close Enough Good Enough? Establishing the Date of Valuation in Direct and Inverse Cases
• Creative Approaches to Solving Difficult Appraisal Problems
• All You Need is Love: New Frontiers in Alternative Dispute Resolution in Eminent Domain
• Road Warriors: Building and Trying an Eminent Domain Case From Your Laptop
• Special Benefits: The Givings Clause?
• How To Try and Settle Pipeline Cases
• Going Where No Court Has Gone Before: The Tension Between the Courts and Appraisal Methodology
• Responding to Project Changes: Valuing a Taking When Government Action Changes or is Ongoing
• Responding to the Abuse of Motions in Limine
• Surviving the Daily Fistfight: Finding Your Resilience When Every Day is a Battle (ethics)