Land Use Expert Witnesses
What is a land use expert witness?
Land use expert witness candidates typically have experience in zoning, land use law, and/or regulatory compliance. Land use experts may have experience as civil engineers (PE), real estate counseling and valuation, environmental regulations/compliance, or surveying and land use planning. In addition, a law firm may require a land use or zoning expert for pre-litigation consulting work. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a professional with prior expert witness testimony experience.
What types of cases require a land use expert witness?
Matters requiring land use expert witness services can involve breach of contract and partnership disputes, business valuation, eminent domain, fraud and misrepresentation, and environmental impact issues.
Land use expert witness case examples
Cahn Litigation Services has been approached by numerous clients to locate expert witnesses that can support land use matters. Example cases include:
- New Jersey shopping center site planning,
- local government ordinances,
- real estate appraiser due diligence,
- commercial real estate broker standard of care in New York City,
- mixed-use land development feasibility studies,
- land surveying,
- construction defect claims,
- real estate development project environmental impact,
- property owner land use planning approvals, and
- real estate valuation.
What litigation support work might a land use expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by land use expert could include site inspections, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, deposition testimony, and expert testimony in court.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a land use expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience. The firm has many years of experience presenting expert candidates with the right balance of expertise and testimony experience for each unique project.
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Land Use Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Land Use experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Land Use landscape.
Expert Witness #260804
This expert is a land use / land planning expert with a particular focus on planned communities. Development and management of thousand-acre tracts requires specific expertise in mineral rights easements and leases, permitting, entitlement, use priority, and environmental sensitivity. This expert has specific experience in civil construction projects including roadways, well construction, pipeline laying, trench safety, and excavation. This expert provides technical investigations, analysis, reports, and testimony toward the resolution of commercial claims and personal injury litigation involving land planning, permitting, real estate acquisitions and development, construction practices, premises and construction site safety, civil engineering, and project management. This expert has expert witness experience.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #261156
This expert is a partner in a law firm and an experienced oil and gas litigator. This expert earned a JD and is Board Certified in Oil and Gas. This expert is involved in the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section of a State Bar. This expert is involved in an Oil and Gas Pattern Jury Charge Committee. This expert has authored and presented numerous papers at industry and legal conferences, establishing this expert as an authority in mineral rights/land use issues as they pertain specifically to oil and gas.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #237260
This robotic navigation expert holds a PhD and is a professor in an electrical and computer engineering department at a well-regarded technical university, conducting research and teaching in navigation, communications, and computer system design.
This expert supervises a university research center focused on advanced integrated radio navigation and is developing a public-safety integration initiative involving communications, navigation, and information technologies for public safety applications. The research focuses on the development, testing, and evaluation of GPS and GPS-like navigation systems and projects for both civilian and military applications.
Before joining academia, this expert spent over 10 years at a major defense and aerospace company, where the work involved developing embedded computers for guidance, communications, and data processing systems in spaceborne and terrestrial applications.
This expert has been involved with the development of autonomous robotic vehicles for use on land, in the air, and at sea. This expert also has substantial expert witness and litigation consulting experience, including deposition and trial testimony.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #278087
This real estate and land use expert holds a BBA in Banking & Finance, completed graduate studies in Real Estate, and serves in a senior leadership role at a national real estate consultancy providing comprehensive valuation and advisory services across a broad spectrum of property types and client services.
This expert has deep local market knowledge, extensive experience, and a substantial catalog of real estate litigation experience.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #278472
This municipal law expert is a leader in land use and local government law, with experience in bar association section leadership, counsel work for state planning officials, frequent speaking on zoning, local government law, and ethics, and teaching in zoning law and municipal land use law.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #283937
This realty valuation/appraisal expert has over 25 years of professional appraisal experience and has held a senior executive role with an appraisal and consulting group.
This expert has owned and operated a real estate appraisal company, with experience involving apartments, neighborhood and community retail, industrial properties, mixed-use properties, residential subdivisions, places of worship, senior housing, residential properties, commercial and residential land, eminent domain/condemnation, and conservation easements.
Additional experience includes service as an Adjunct Instructor of Mathematics, military special operations, and high-technology support and project management.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #284304
This land use expert holds a B.A. and an M.Sc. in Environmental Studies and has experience with a state natural resources agency and a national park agency before becoming a historical land use consultant.
In the history consulting field, this expert has over 5 years of experience conducting research, analyzing documents, and drafting sections of expert reports or writing entire reports in the fields of water rights and land use and development across the western United States.
Experience includes work on a multi-year project investigating the history of water rights and water development projects in a western state, including archival research, comparing water rights filing dates to changes in state water law, and drafting large sections of an expert report. In land development, this expert has extensive experience researching and writing micro-histories explaining land use change, settlement patterns, and access and travel routes to areas in many western states.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #284311
This land use/water rights expert is a senior consulting engineer who assists clients with water management projects ranging from residential development to agriculture and mining. This expert holds a B.Sc. in Hydrology and Hydraulic/Groundwater Engineering and worked for a state water resources agency for over 20 years before opening a consulting firm.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #284337
This land use/water rights expert founded a land planning and development services firm and is recognized as a leader in government relations, entitlements, due diligence, and permitting. This expert has over 25 years of local government planning experience, including nearly five years in a senior municipal planning leadership role in Nevada. This expert previously served in an assistant municipal planning leadership role in Kansas and completed a number of years of post-graduate work in urban planning and law.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #286857
This mortgage expert holds a PhD, served as chair of a university finance department and executive director of a real estate and land use institute, and is currently a Professor of Finance-Emeritus.
This expert was an executive in the mortgage industry before joining the faculty of a state university, with a primary research focus on real estate finance. This expert has published over 40 articles and book chapters on housing finance and mortgage markets in peer-reviewed academic journals, including prominent journals in real estate economics, banking and finance, housing economics, real estate research, fixed income, and housing policy, and serves on a number of editorial boards.
In addition to industry and academic experience, this expert has consulted for major financial institutions, law firms, and regulatory agencies and has testified before the U.S. Congress on topics related to residential mortgage lending.
Start Land Use Expert SearchExpert Witness #291249
This property improvements expert holds the AIA credential and has over 30 years of experience in development, design and construction management, and on-site field administration across a broad range of building types, including new construction and renovation in the private and public sectors.
This expert has testified as an expert witness in over 60 cases relating to architecture, construction, land use, and real estate development, and has broad professional experience across many building types.
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