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GEOFFREY P. ANDERSON is a shareholder at Sweetbaum Sands Anderson PC, where he practices in the areas of real estate litigation, commercial litigation and real estate transactions. For 2010-2011, Mr. Anderson was Chair of the Real Estate Section Council of the Colorado Bar Association. He is author of Colorado Quiet Title Actions, and the chapter on easements in Colorado Real Estate Forms Desk Book, both from Bradford Publishing. Mr. Anderson is a frequent lecturer on real estate topics, including easements, roads, boundary disputes and quiet title. He also has testified as an expert witness in those areas. Mr. Anderson is a member of the Colorado Bar Association (Title Standards Committee). He earned his B.S. degree from Colorado State University and his J.D. degree from the University of Denver. JAMES A. BECKWITH is a sole practitioner in Arvada, Colorado. His private practice focuses on major case and legal project development on behalf on continuing corporate clients, in the areas of transportation logistics, motor carrier operations and claims, and road and access development for oil/gas and timber projects. Mr. Beckwith is one of two attorneys, nationally known to specialize in towing carrier operations, including a unique ability to operate tow trucks and perform recoveries. He serves as operations counsel to most motor carrier and towing carrier clients. His duties include acting as special counsel on commercial vehicle collisions, reconstructing commercial vehicle collisions, and as needed, assembly and management of the reconstruction teams. Mr. Beckwith then presents the reconstruction at trial or mediation, or alternatively, to train insurance defense counsel on that presentation. Mr. Beckwith has appeared before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for the past 25 years in both licensing and rule-making proceedings. Since 1993, the practice has increasingly focused upon access and road issues relating to public and private roadways in Colorado and Utah, requiring historical research into access routes developed by pioneers, resulting in ground exploration to confirm location and current status of roads as "public highways" under governing state law. He has served as special counsel on both administrative and courtroom litigation to confirm access on those highways for oil/gas and timber development. Locations have included performing troubleshooting on large developments in rural Western Colorado locations. Since 2004, Mr. Beckwith has developed a specialty in managing and directing complex civil litigation including, analysis and selection of the claims and defenses; assembly of teams and team members; and oversight of all research, discovery, pre-trial briefing, and trial presentation. Mr. Beckwith has experience as an expert witness with conveyancing and land titling in the U.S. District Court of Colorado, Bankruptcy Division. He is a member of the Colorado Bar Association and the Jefferson County Colorado Bar Association. Mr. Beckwith earned his Bachelor of Arts in sociology and psychology from the University of California, Davis and his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. ROBERT D. CLARK is Assistant Douglas County Attorney, where, as both a litigator and transactional lawyer, he practices road and access law, land use, commercial and real estate law, and bankruptcy. Previously, for 11 years, he was a civil assistant U.S. attorney in Denver, where he litigated road and access cases on behalf of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Mr. Clark also regularly represented these two agencies and other federal agencies in natural resources, public lands, environmental, commercial, real estate, regulatory, and bankruptcy litigation. He has been Colorado Assistant Attorney General; vice president and general counsel of a Denver bank; a trial attorney with the Appellate Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; and an associate at a Denver law firm. Mr. Clark earned his B.A. degree from Stanford University and J.D. degree from the University of Colorado. ALAN D. SWEETBAUM is a shareholder in the Denver law firm of Sweetbaum Sands Anderson PC. He has concentrated his practice in the area of commercial and civil litigation since 1983. Mr. Sweetbaum also handles all types of matters affecting real estate, including bankruptcy, foreclosure and receivership matters, leases, construction, title claims, and condominiums. He is a past member of the board of the Colorado Real Estate Section Council. Mr. Sweetbaum frequently lectures on real estate law, title insurance and litigation issues, landlord/tenant law, real estate litigation, and road and access disputes. He earned his B.A. degree from Syracuse University and J.D. degree from the University of Denver College of Law. Mr. Sweetbaum is a member of the Denver and Colorado bar associations.
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