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Road and Easement Law from A to ZNBI, Inc.Denver, CO Get Results For Your Road and Access Law Clients Conflict is inevitable when it comes to road and access law and who is entitled to what. Yet when clients call you in to determine who has rights in an easement, private road or right-of-way dispute, traditional negotiating tactics can fall short. As a result, agreements blow up, cases don't settle and - too often - you end up in court.
Attend this seminar and walk away with a proven and positive approach for addressing and resolving disputes as they arise in the volatile environment of road and access law. Register today!
• Find out what influences the scope of the road right of way - and how it may affect your clients.
• Be prepared to handle easement issues by knowing how private roads are created.
• Protect clients' rights - understand the procedure for gaining access to roads.
• Solve road access issues that arise during real estate transactions.
• Identify what red flags to look for during a title search.
• Get solutions to real-life ethical dilemmas often faced in your law practice.
• Learn how to read between the lines of a land survey to find crucial support for your side of the dispute.
More Instructors: Geoffrey Anderson is a shareholder at Sweetbaum Sands Anderson PC, where he practices in the areas
of real estate litigation, commercial litigation and real estate transactions. For 2010-2011, Mr. Anderson was Chair
of the Real Estate Section Council of the Colorado Bar Association. He is author of Colorado Quiet Title Actions,
and the chapter on easements in Colorado Real Estate Forms Desk Book, both from Bradford Publishing. Mr.
Anderson is a frequent lecturer on real estate topics, including easements, roads, boundary disputes and quiet title.
He also has testified as an expert witness in those areas. Mr. Anderson is a member of the Colorado Bar Association
(Title Standards Committee). He earned his B.S. degree from Colorado State University and his J.D. degree from the
University of Denver. James Beckwith is a sole practitioner in Arvada, Colorado. His private practice with emphasis upon major
case and legal project development on behalf on continuing corporate clients in the areas of transportation logistics,
motor carrier operations and claims, and road and access development for oil/gas and timber project. Mr. Beckwith
is one of two attorneys, nationally, know to specialize in towing carrier operations, including a unique ability to
operate tow trucks and perform recoveries. He serves as operations counsel to most motor carrier and towing carrier
clients. His duties include acting as special counsel on commercial vehicle collisions, reconstructing commercial
vehicle collisions, and as needed, assembly and management of the reconstruction teams. Mr. Beckwith then
presents the reconstruction at trial or mediation, or alternatively, to train insurance defense counsel on that
presentation Mr. Beckwith has appeared before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for the past 25 years in
both licensing and rule-making proceedings. Since 1993, the practice has increasingly focused upon access and road
issues relating to public and private roadways in Colorado and Utah, requiring historical research into access routes
developed by pioneers, resulting in ground exploration to confirm location and current status of roads as "public
highways" under governing state law. He has served as special counsel on both administrative and courtroom
litigation to confirm access on those highways for oil/gas and timber development. Locations have included
performing troubleshooting on large developments in rural Western Colorado locations. Since 2004, Mr. Beckwith
has developed specialty in managing and directing complex civil litigation including; analysis and selection of the
claims and defenses; assembly of teams and team members; and oversight of all research, discovery, pre-trial
briefing, and trial presentation. Mr. Beckwith has experience as an expert witness with conveyancing and land
titling, U.S. District Court, Colorado, Bankruptcy Division. He is a member of the Colorado Bar Association and
Jefferson County Colorado Bar Association. Mr. Beckwith earned his Bachelor of Arts, Sociology and Psychology
from the University of California, Davis and his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of
Law. Robert Clark is Assistant Douglas County Attorney, where, as both a litigator and transactional lawyer, he
practices road and access law, land use, commercial and real estate law, and bankruptcy. Previously, for 11 years, he
was a civil assistant U.S. attorney in Denver, where he litigated road and access cases on behalf of the Forest Service
and the Bureau of Land Management. Mr. Clark also regularly represented these two agencies and other federal
agencies in natural resources, public lands, environmental, commercial, real estate, regulatory, and bankruptcy
litigation. He has been Colorado Assistant Attorney General, vice president and general counsel of a Denver bank, a
trial attorney with the Appellate Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department
of Justice in Washington, D.C., and an associate at a Denver law firm. Mr. Clark earned his B.A. degree from
Stanford University and J.D. degree from the University of Colorado. Alan Sweetbaum is a shareholder in the Denver law firm of Sweetbaum Sands Anderson, PC. He has
concentrated his practice in the area of commercial and civil litigation since 1983. Mr. Sweetbaum also handles all
types of matters affecting real estate, including bankruptcy, foreclosure and receivership matters, leases,
construction, title claims and condominiums. He is a past member of the board of the Colorado Real Estate Section
Council. Mr. Sweetbaum frequently lectures on real estate law, title insurance and litigation issues, landlord/tenant
law, real estate litigation and road and access disputes. He earned his B.A. degree from Syracuse University and J.D.
degree from the University of Denver College of Law. Mr. Sweetbaum is a member of the Denver and Colorado bar
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