Casey Pipes and Warren Herlong will make presentations at an American Law Institute seminar titled Condemnation 101: How to Prepare and Present an Eminent Domain Case, which will take place January 23-25, 2014 at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans.  Mr. Pipes will co-present a paper titled Right to Take Hearings – Condemnor and Condemnee Perspectives.  Mr. Herlong will co-present on How to Attack or Defend Comparable Sales.  The seminar is being held in conjunction with the ALI continuing legal education Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation conference.  For additional information on the seminar, please click here.

Casey Pipes is the current chairman of the Condemnation Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law. The committee had its Fall Leadership Meeting in New Orleans on November 8-9, 2013. Mr. Pipes attended and gave an update on regulatory takings during the Real Property division’s Hot Topics program.

At an October 18, 2013 real estate law seminar at the University of Alabama School of Law, which was sponsored by the Real Property, Probate & Trust Section of the Alabama State Bar, Casey Pipes gave a presentation titled, “Inverse Condemnation and Regulatory Takings Claims in Alabama: How Recent Court Opinions Hurt Property Rights.”  To read the paper that Mr. Pipes wrote to accompany his presentation, please click here.

Warren Herlong will give a presentation on recent developments in Alabama eminent domain on July 26, 2013 at the Summer Conference of the Alabama Chapter of the International Right Of Way Association (IRWA) in Orange Beach, Alabama.  IRWA is a leading sponsor of educational programs and professional services in the right of way field.  Formed as a not-for-profit association in 1934, IRWA today has almost 10,000 members throughout the United States, Canada and Africa.  Those members include acquisition agents, appraisers, environment professionals, engineers, lawyers, property managers, relocation assistance agents, surveyors and title experts.

On January 31, 2013, Warren Herlong provided an overview of Alabama eminent domain law at the Alabama Probate Judges Association Winter Conference at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear.  Warren speaks regularly on eminent domain, condemnation and related areas of law at gatherings of legal professionals and others in Alabama and across the country.

Casey Pipes will join in a round table discussion titled “Thinking Out Loud: Property Rights After Natural Disasters,” sponsored by the Condemnation, Zoning and Land Use Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Litigation.  The free call-in teleconference will be held on Friday, January 11, 2013, starting at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time.  Mark Murakami of the Damon Key law firm in Honolulu, Hawaii will moderate.  Joining Casey on the panel will be Anthony Della Pelle and Tom Olson of the McKirdy & Riskin law firm in New Jersey.  If you would like to register, or get more information, please click here

Mr. Herlong is slated to give two presentations at the ALI meeting taking place on January 24 and 25, 2012.  The first is titled, “How to Develop and Implement a Business Plan for an Eminent Domain Practice,” and will be part of the ALI’s course on Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation.  Mr. Herlong’s second presentation will focus on the direct examination of valuation witnesses in eminent domain cases and will be given during a course titled “Condemnation 101: How to Prepare and Present an Eminent Domain Case.”

Mr. Herlong has been invited by the Joint Education Committee of the Alabama Probate Judges Association and the Alabama Law Institute  to speak on eminent domain law at the Association’s meeting on January 31, 2013 at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Alabama.  The presentation is titled, “Overview of Alabama Eminent Domain Law, What Every Alabama Probate Judge Should Know”.

Mr. Finnegan gave three separate presentations at the day-long seminar held in Mobile on July 30, 2012.  His first presentation dealt with contract negotiation, focusing in particular on steps lawyers can take to provide clients with maximum legal protection during and after the negotiation process.  In his second presentation, Mr. Finnegan discussed the key laws, rules, legal doctrines and practices that a litigator should master to insure the best outcomes in breach of contract disputes.  Mr. Finnegan’s final presentation concerned rules of professional conduct that are of particular importance to lawyers engaged in transactional practice.

The subject of Mr. Pipes’ presentation was the Uniform Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Act and how it can impact local condemnation actions.  The event was co-sponsored by the ABA’s State & Local Government and Litigation Sections.