Land Surveying Expert Witnesses in California

Land Surveying, Construction - Land Boundary, Land Title, Land Easements, Adverse Possession, Surveyor Negligence, Land Surveyor, Standard of Care, Texas Surveyor Certificate of Merit, Water Allocation, Dock Dispute, Riparian Rights, Littoral Rights, Geomatics, Encroachment, Right of Way, GPS Survey, Property Line Dispute, Subdivision Platting, Daubert Qualified

Dr. Tony Nettleman, PhD, Esq, PLS, is a nationally recognized land surveying expert witness licensed in twelve states — Florida, Texas, California, New Mexico, Alabama, South Dakota, West Virginia, Kentucky, Nevada, Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio, and a licensed attorney in Florida. He has provided expert testimony in over 200 cases across the country and has never been successfully Daubert challenged. Attorneys retain Dr. Nettleman for boundary disputes, easement conflicts, land title issues, adverse possession claims, riparian and littoral rights, surveyor negligence, encroachment, right-of-way disputes, and standard-of-care matters. His dual background as both a licensed surveyor and a trained attorney gives him a rare ability to communicate complex technical findings clearly and persuasively to judges and juries. Dr. Nettleman is the author and co-author of leading land surveying textbooks, including Clark on Surveying, Evidence & Procedure for Boundary Location, and Brown's Boun...

Land Surveying, Slip Trip & Fall - Boundary Dispute, accident and site mapping, civil engineering, flood, drainage, utility, land development, standard of care, easements, mapping, zoning, land use, earth work, adverse possession

Mr. Ferrantello has been retained by a vast number of law firms, insurance companies and municipalities.Mr. Ferrantello has also had great deal of experience with large number of diverse projects such as: Expert Surveys, Maps, Plans, Diagrams, Exhibit’s, Testimony for damages and injuries such as: trip and falls, tree damage, flood building damage, traffic accidents, public and private property damage as well as wrongful death suits. Also has an extensive experience and background in Site Planning and Subdivision Consulting, examining title records, deeds and other recorded documents such as ingress and egress, pedestrian easements, right of ways, air and development rights, vista easements, bridle paths, beach, bathing and mooring rights, covenants and restrictions, real property, zoning and other land use principles. Extensive knowledge of the local Long Island zoning codes, site planning and subdivision regulations.The profession itself is to define the property lines and measure...

California

Land Surveying, Civil Engineering - Boundary, Riparian, Littoral, Easement, Land Title, Standard of Care, Surveyor Negligence, Property Dispute, Adverse Possession, Prescriptive Easement, Encroachment, Mapping, Topographic Survey, Construction Survey, Water Boundary, Public Land Survey System, Forensic Surveys, Land Descriptions

Evan Page has over 40 years of broad land surveying experience and is licensed in California, Idaho and Washington. He is a regionally recognized speaker on boundary and other survey topics. He developed particular expertise in water boundaries (river, lake and coastal) during his thirteen years with the California State Lands Commission, from which he retired as a Senior Boundary Determination Officer in 2021. Mr. Page served as a Technical Expert on many enforcement matters for the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists (BPELSG). He also served on the state-specific Professional Land Surveyors licensing exam development and grading teams for several years and on several ad hoc advisory teams for BPLESG. Mr. Page has served as expert witness and/or expert consultant for several private parties on land survey matters involving land and water boundaries, title matters, survey practice, standard of care and surveyor negligence. He has testifie...

Sonoma, California

Civil Engineering, Land Surveying - Civil Engineer, Land Surveyor, Geomatics Engineer, Boundary Disputes, Easements, LiDAR, Laser Scanning, UAV, Drone, Aerial Photogrammetry, Change Detection, Aerial Photo Analysis, Floodplains, Flooding, Hydraulics, Storm Drains, Sanitary Sewers, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Landslides, Wildfires

Clark Stoner has over 25 years of experience in the civil engineering and land surveying fields. He has extensive experience as technical expert in litigation support matters involving floods and landslides, code compliance, construction defect, origin and cause investigations, failure analysis, boundary and easement disputes, premises liability, and standard of care. His background ranges from the design, construction and operation of large scale water and wastewater infrastructure facilities to the design and construction of amusement theme parks, subdivisions and residential, commercial and hospitality projects. Mr. Stoner has testified as an expert witness in California and Nevada on a range of issues. Mr. Stoner has also assisted consulting and legal teams to develop the macro perspective on litigation support matters through use of remote sensing techniques, such as aerial and terrestrial LiDAR, 3D laser scanning, multi-spectral imaging and photogrammetry to gather additio...

Dana Point, California

Animations, Land Surveying - scene mapping, scene visualization, sightlines, stopping sight distance, scene reconstruction, topographic mapping, passing sight distance, photogrammetry, visual demonstratives, as-built mapping, spatial data visualization, video analysis, animations, GPS data analysis, spatial data analysis, photo analysis

Steyn Visagie is a licensed land surveyor, forensic animator, and FAA-certified remote (drone) pilot. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Surveying from the University of Cape Town and is a licensed professional land surveyor in California and Virginia. With a decade of experience in the forensic industry, he has worked with litigators and experts in accident reconstruction, injury biomechanics, traffic engineering, and human factors. Steyn has inspected, surveyed, reconstructed, analyzed, and visually represented hundreds of scenes - ranging from car and train accident scenes to ski slopes, trampoline parks to prison cells, police shooting scenes to polo fields, and even an exploded gas line to a "haunted house of horrors". If visualizing and understanding the spatial characteristics of a scene is a key component of your case, I can help.