Legal

All components of litigation and litigation support relative to wetland matters including expert testimony, expert testimony support, deposition and trial preparation, other expert evaluation and actual prosecution of litigation (lead or co-counsel) and witness identification and preparation.

Assistance, preparation, lead or co-counsel and development or support of the prosecution or defense of taking or eminent domain claims relative to flood mapping or flood designations, regulatory land use and zoning activities and post-flood claims. Preparation of claims and defenses in support of related legal actions such as negligence and nuisance claims related to flooding and damages from other related causes.

Legal representation, case preparation and support, expert testimony, expert testimony preparation, other expert identification on all matters relating to flooding, flood damage, flood causation and other related legal issues such as claims involving other negligence or nuisance. Support or defense of individual claims, class action claims on behalf of claimants, insurance carriers and re-insurance companies. Interface with other disciplines including engineering, surveying, hydraulics, hydrology and earth sciences to prove or disprove flood causation and/or flood damages.

All regulatory, administrative and legal challenges (where necessary) of existing flood map designations. Preparation and prosecution of all FEMA-based and/or community adopted flood map amendments and revisions. Interface with lenders and insurance providers on flood map revisions, lending requirements and impacts and insurance requirements and rates. Personal follow-through on all Letters of Map Revision (LOMR) and Letters of Map Amendment (LOMA).

All phases of expert testimony relating to wetlands and similar ecological habitats including issues involving permitting, takings, land valuation, charitable contribution opportunities and valuation, impacts on business and asset values and resources, interface with natural resource damage claims and other related regulatory programs. Flood impacts, causation, damages, municipal and developer negligence claims, mapping impacts and flood program legislative matters are also the subject of our expert testimony.