Practices: Eminent Domain

The eminent domain specialists at Luce Forward have achieved a track record of success.

Our team has particularly deep experience representing landowners and business owners facing both full- and partial-takings.

Our Approach.

Luce Forward’s eminent domain attorneys have developed a mastery of the condemnation process to help clients at every stage of the process. Our team:

• Is well versed in all aspects of inverse condemnation, right-to-take challenges, precondemnation delay, and loss of business goodwill.
• Understands the concerns and unique challenges landowners and business owners face throughout the condemnation process. We pride ourselves on creative and efficient pre-condemnation planning to anticipate, and deal with, the immediate impacts of condemnation, while working toward maximizing the ultimate recovery.
• Deals with valuation issues and both real estate and business goodwill claims.
• Has courtroom successes that regularly garner substantial attention statewide.
• Achieves high levels of success because we strive to understand the needs and goals of each landowner and business owner. No two properties or businesses are alike. Condemnation must be dealt with creatively.

Our eminent domain team also represents public agencies and understands that strategic assessment and planning is essential to a public agency’s ability to keep projects on track. Most public projects require the condemnation of both major and minor parcels, even seemingly inconsequential parcels. Many smaller acquisitions do not require significant litigation effort or even appraisal effort. They are often resolvable through early, aggressive negotiation.