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Because everyone needs a good advocate.
Advocacy Matters, LLC founder, Gwendolyn Lacy, principal attorney, consultant, and mediator, works with private landowners, regional, local, and national land conservancies, as well as governmental agencies and environmental organizations to actively preserve those special places where life-long memories and legacies are forged. Client Services, include drafting and/or review of conservation easements, land acquisitions, historic preservation, mediation of easement violations, legislative advocacy, eminent domain, succession planning and non-profit capacity building.
Serving the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest Regions of the U.S.
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Braun & Gresham provides legal services to owners of rural land — advocating for their interests in estate planning, land conservation, real estate investment and property taxes; and defending them from condemnation, groundwater depletion, surface water pollution or infrastructure routing. Braun & Gresham believes that its conservation counsel is more effective if it stays focused on representing landowners rather than trying to represent land trusts and landowners.
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Confluence Law, PLLC is a full-service law firm experienced in resolving complex water and natural resource issues. Our clients include large and small instream and out of stream water users, public entities, associations and nonprofit organizations. Confluence Law works with clients to create resilient solutions in water law, land conservation, public utility regulation and nonprofits.
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Grant & Lyons was founded in 1994. Since founding, our practice is dedicated solely to environmental, land use and real estate law. One of our founding partners, Drayton Grant (now deceased), was a founding member of the Winnakee Land Trust in Rhinebeck, NY. Current partner, John Lyons, presently sits on the Board of Directors of both the Winnakee Land Trust and the Catskill Center (whose land trust was recently accredited by LTA) and sits on the Board’s stewardship committee. John is an individual member of the LTA. Our legal practice regularly involves all facets of conservation easements. We represent both land trusts and landowners. We have drafted, negotiated and reviewed many easements, and provided legal advice to parties on both sides of the conservation easement equation. In addition to helping Winnakee and the Catskill Center, we also have worked with Scenic Hudson, Dutchess Land Conservancy, and Hudson River Heritage (for whom we successfully defended a lawsuit seeking to extinguish a conservation easement). We participate actively in continuing legal education to remain at the forefront of new developments in this field. We also work regularly with planners on open space preservation initiatives for our municipal clients.
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Representing land trusts and public agencies in conservation transactions and organizational management.
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Research-based strategy and management consulting for the 21st century social sector.
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Tim Sweeney is a land conservation attorney advising land trusts in Colorado and New Mexico. Tim has more than 30 years of experience representing real estate developers, shopping center landlords and tenants, lenders and global media companies in complex real estate transactions and corporate matters. Tim is a second-generation Colorado native and a graduate of the University of Colorado School of Law.
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Thirty-six-year history in biological conservation, science education and organizational management.
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William F. “Fritz” Paulus is a real estate attorney who focuses on land protection transactions and land use matters in Oregon. Representing government entities, nonprofits, and individuals, Mr. Paulus has extensive experience in assisting and advising clients with all facets of the willing-seller-and-buyer property acquisition process from project assessment to closing, including negotiation consultation, preparing purchase and sale agreements, conducting due diligence involving condition of title, appraisals, surveys, and environmental compliance, deed preparation, and escrow instructions. In addition to fee title acquisitions, conservation easements are one of his practice areas, including those to maintain and protect working farmlands. In 2015, he authored a chapter about conservation easements in the Oregon Real Estate Deskbook, published by the Oregon State Bar and is a frequent speaker on the topic. Prior to his current practice, he served as the Executive Director of the Oregon Water Trust and was a Real Estate Negotiator with the Natural Areas Program at Metro, the Portland-area regional government. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon law school and has been an Oregon State Bar member since 1991.
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The American Forest Foundation ensures the sustainability of America's family forests for present and future generations in conjunction with our strategic partners.
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Our attorneys specialize in environmental and land law and work to support a sustainable New Hampshire. We represent land trusts, landowners and others. We design legal solutions consistent with both private property rights and sustainable stewardship of our land and natural resources.
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Conservation Law, P.C. is a law firm devoted to protecting working landscapes and environmentally significant lands in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West through the use of perpetual conservation easements.
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Conservation Partners works to conserve land for the public benefit. Over the past 25 years, Conservation Partners has completed hundreds of transactions that have conserved thousands of acres of agricultural lands, open space and critical habitat.
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Founded in March 2004 by a group of partners who had practiced together for many years at another major law firm, Coughlin Duffy LLP is a diverse, full-service firm committed to providing legal services of exceptional quality and superior value.
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Public officials and corporate executives with high profile public and private projects that must get planned and completed, call Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell. Whether the project is a public project, has a nexus with a government entity, or merely requires deep knowledge of how government works, our attorneys are sought after — because we’ve seen it and done it before.
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Representing organizations and landowners in all phases of conservation real estate transactions, including land and conservation easement sales and donations, conservation easement amendments, and exchanges. Conservation Advisors LLC secures public and private conservation capital, and analyzes and implements conservation and business strategies.
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Representing land trusts and governmental entities in land conservation transactions, the stewardship of protected lands and organizational issues.
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Mitchell & Co., P.C. is a local CPA firm located in Leesburg, Virginia. We provide a wide range of accounting services including audits, reviews, and compilations for a variety of organizations across many industries. In addition, we prepare personal and corporate tax returns for an ever-expanding client base.
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While Otten Johnson specializes in real estate and land use matters, we provide a variety of related legal expertise to serve clients through each of our eight practice areas.
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The Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation (the Gulf Partnership) is a coalition of more than 20 local, regional and national conservation organizations that work in the Gulf Coast region within the five Gulf of Mexico states – Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Our mission is to increase the pace, quality and permanence of voluntary land and water conservation within the coastal region.
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Plauché & Carr LLP attorneys serve as advocates and counselors regarding legal and regulatory issues related to natural resource based activities. We are passionate about the work that we do, and are only satisfied if we do it exceptionally well.
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Widely recognized as one of the region’s foremost authorities in conservation law, Pregmon Law has been instrumental in preserving thousands of acres of land in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. Whether it is private donation of conservation easements or publicly funded acquisitions of open space, partners Pat Pregmon and Lauren Pregmon Tetreault provide counsel to both land trusts and private landowners. We also coordinate public-private partnerships and develop innovative donation agreements and funding covenants to meet the needs of land trusts responsible for the perpetual stewardship of conservation transactions. Pregmon Law excels at analyzing individual needs, mediating competing interests, and creating a structure which unites them- while always keeping in mind the goal of crafting a solution which will last in perpetuity. Being a small firm, Pregmon Law can apply a more thoughtful approach and get to a more intimate level of detail to meet our clients’ conservation objectives.
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Accounting, financial reporting including audited financial reports, financial consulting.