Eminent Domain: No strikes. You’re out! Imagine if you are possibly able to do so, you are opening the day’s mail. Hmm. Here is a unique-looking envelope from the State Department of Transportation. What in the world could this possibly be? What would the Transportation Department want with me? You read the letter in utter […]
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Dead Trees Do Talk
November 2, 2020Dead trees do talk. A birthday milestone for many girls is Sweet Sixteen. And so it was for the girl making her way home from a shopping trip with her father. Having just called her girlfriend to chat about the evening’s plans, she had approximately 45 seconds left to live. Ahead on the interstate, growing […]
Tree Preservation: Different Things to Different People
July 27, 2020Tree preservation: Different things to different people. If you are a builder or a developer, tree preservation pretty much equates to not knocking the tree down during development. If you are a homeowner, then tree preservation takes on a more feng shui application. The utility of doing it well, doing what’s right, and doing it […]
Eminent Domain Takings: New Florida Formula
September 3, 2019In the early 2000s , I received a telephone call from one of the nation’s leading eminent domain attorneys. It was a call that arborists only dream of getting, a call that started my fierce defense of Article 5 of the Bill of Rights. A call that spurred me to have my career revolve around […]
Permission to Approach the Witness
May 13, 2019The direct examination went rather well considering that most people expect the retaining attorney to be a great orator worthy of Cicero accolades when, in fact, they might have little experience or expertise in oral presentations at trial. The exchange between me, as the expert tree witness, and my retaining attorney was not over-rehearsed and […]