IRWA Chapter 1 Fall Seminar 2009.pub - Nossaman

IRWA Chapter 1 - Los Angeles County Presents
2009 Annual Fall Seminar
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Quiet Cannon - Montebello
901 North Via San Clement
Montebello, CA 90640
323.724.4500
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:00 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. SCE’s Wind Energy Projects
Speaker: David Guder, Project Manager, Southern
California Edison
9:35 a.m. Oil and Gas Well Issues Related to Real
Estate/Infrastructure Development in
Southern California
Speaker: David Henry, P.G., Senior Project
Scientist, ECO & Associates, Inc.
10:35 a.m. BREAK
10:50 a.m. Hot Legal Topics From the Perspective of an
Agency Attorney and a Landowner
Attorney
Speakers: Gary Kovacic, Esq., Partner, Sullivan,
Workman & Dee LLP; and
Michael Thornton, Esq., Partner, Nossaman LLP
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
Mediating the Condemnation Case
Speakers: Hon. Lawrence W. Crispo (Ret.); and
Joseph S. Avila, Esq., Managing Partner, Avila &
Putman
1:30 p.m. Real Estate Values: Have We Hit the Bottom
Yet?
Speaker: John Ellis, MAI, Managing Director, Integra
Realty Resources
2:30 p.m. HUD-Monitoring Federally Funded Acquisition
and Relocation Projects
Speaker: Jana Bickel, Relocation Specialist, HUD
3:30 p.m. BREAK
3:45 p.m. Going Green: How Public Agencies are
Implementing Strategies for Sustainability
Speaker: Alice Sterling, Sr. Project Manager, City of
Pasadena
APPROVALS
4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks
Approval Pending - Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit of 7 hours, 100% seminar attendance
is required.
Approved - International Right-of-Way Association for Senior Designation Re-certification Credits
(SR/WA) 7 course hours, 100% seminar attendance is required.
Approved - State of California, Office of Real Estate Appraisers for 7 hours of Continuing Education Hours, 100%
seminar attendance is required.
Note: Please bring your identification of designation for each professional credit desired for the seminar
completion certificate (i.e. verification of OREA license number).

REGISTRATION FOR ANNUAL FALL SEMINAR
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Nossaman LLP
Lunch only - $25; Vegetarian available upon request
445 South Figueroa Street, 31st Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
213.612.7800
7 HOURS SR/WA Recertification Credits - Approved
7 HOURS of OREA Continuing Education Credits - Approved
7 HOURS MCLE Credit - Pending Approval
**All refund requests must be made in writing. 50% of the registration fee may be retained if
cancellation notice is postmarked less than 10 days before the seminar.**

FALL SEMINAR SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Joseph S. Avila is Managing Partner at Avila & Putman. His primary areas of practice are eminent domain litigation, real
estate and business transactions, project development, redevelopment law, government contracts, small business
representation, and non-profit law. His eminent domain litigation experience includes representing property owners,
businesses, and public agencies. Mr. Avila also represents clients in negotiating development agreements with public
agencies.
Jana Bickel has been a Relocation Specialist with HUD for the past 20 years and is in the Department of Community
Planning and Development. She has worked with HUD’s Community Development Block Grant program, HOME Program,
and various other HUD housing programs, economic development, special needs programs. She has been serving as a HUD’s
Relocation Specialist for Southern California for over 5 years. Ms. Bickel has monitored many of the largest cities and
counties in Southern California for compliance with Federal acquisition and relocation rules and provided training on the
same subject to City, County and consultant staff.
Hon. Lawrence W. Crispo (Rt.) is a highly respected private judge whose experience on the bench and extensive private
career enable him to easily and effectively work with counsel and their clients to move matters toward resolution. Before
being appointed a judge of the Superior Court in 1994, he practiced both civil and criminal law for over 30 years.
Knowledgeable in many aspects of the law, Judge Crispo is insightful, extremely personable and has been able to achieve
consensus in almost all matters brought before him. He now serves statewide as a private judge in dispute resolution and is
engaged in mediations, arbitrations, discovery reference and special master matters.
John Ellis, MAI, is Managing Director of Integra Realty Resources. He has provided real estate appraisal services in
Southern California continuously since 1980 and has appraised a vast array of property types. He has completed a wide
range of specialized studies and is an active instructor of appraisal courses and seminars. Mr. Ellis has provided more than
17 years of volunteer service to the Appraisal Institute, and is a past President of the Southern California Chapter of the
Appraisal Institute. He has given expert testimony in federal and superior courts on more than two dozen occasions. He
also provides appraisal reviews and consultation services when needed, and is an experienced arbitrator.
David Guder is a Project Manager with Southern California Edison. He works in the Corporate Real Estate Department
where he supervises the real estate valuation function. His duties include valuation of complex property and property
rights, coordination and project management of internal and external valuations for large transmission projects, project
planning valuation services, and providing expert witness testimony where necessary.
David Henry, P.G., is a Senior Project Scientist with Eco & Associates, Inc. He has worked in oil and gas exploration since
the early 1970’s and has managed environmental issues related to oil field redevelopment since the mid-1980s. Mr. Henry has
overseen oil field remediation projects for both commercial and residential redevelopment throughout Southern California
including the management of well abandonment and re-abandonment within those projects.
Gary Kovacic is a Partner at Sullivan, Workman & Dee, LLP. Since 1976, he has concentrated his practice in the area of
eminent domain litigation, representing hundreds of private property and business owners, and also public and quasi-public
entities. His eminent domain clients range from Fortune 500 companies to family businesses. He has also represented
school districts, private universities, hospitals, and public agencies as condemnors in eminent domain matters. Mr. Kovacic
is a frequent lecturer on eminent domain issues and has co-chaired CLE International’s annual Eminent Domain conference
since 2003. He is also a contributing author of “Practice Tips” for Nichols on Eminent Domain, the nation’s leading treatise
on eminent domain law.
Alice Sterling is a Senior Project Manager for the City of Pasadena. She manages the City’s ambitious sustainability or
“green” city program, the green building program, and she is the lead staff for the newly formed Environmental Advisory
Commission. She has worked as zoning planner, neighborhood revitalization planner, interim code compliance manager,
and helped craft the first tree protection ordinance for Pasadena.
Michael Thornton is a Partner at Nossaman LLP and has more than 20 years of legal experience. His practice concentrates
on eminent domain and condemnation litigation on behalf of both public entity and private clients. He has also successfully
handled inverse condemnation matters. He was co-lead trial attorney in a matter in which he won one of the largest jury
verdicts ever obtained in Marin County Superior Court. Mr. Thornton has acquired easements through eminent domain on
behalf of private companies and public agencies. He has also successfully mediated many cases and believes that alternative
dispute resolution should be explored as a way of successfully achieving the client's goals.