Brian C Balstad JD, MPA, MURP, AICP, owns and operates the Balstad Law Firm located in Fargo, North Dakota. He primarily practices land use planning and zoning law. Mr. Balstad is admitted to practice in the State of Minnesota, State of North Dakota, United States District Court, District of Minnesota, United States District Court, District of North Dakota, United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, and Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Balstad also owns and operates Integrity Public Service Solutions, a land use planning and zoning consulting firm, located in West Fargo, North Dakota. In addition to representing landowners in land use planning and zoning matters and advising local government, Mr. Balstad has also served as a Land Use and Zoning Supervisor in a county environmental office. Mr. Balstad earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Administration, a Minor in Political Science, a Master of Public Administration, and a Juris Doctor from the University of North Dakota. He earned a Master of Urban and Regional Planning and a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Florida. Mr. Balstad is a member of the American Planning Association and is an AICP certified planner. He has provided continuing education presentations regarding land use planning and zoning law, eminent domain and condemnation law, public and private nuisances, easements, and other real property subjects to attorneys, paralegals, engineers, land surveyors, and planners. He has also presented on the topics of government, legislative processes, and lobbying
Peter A Chacanias is an attorney with the firm of Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP. Mr. Chacanias concentrates his practice in the areas of land use and environmental. His experience includes representing commercial real estate developers and property owners on all aspects of the land development process, appearing before planning boards, zoning boards of adjustment, and other municipal governing bodies in connection with site plan approvals, subdivisions, variances, rezoning applications, environmental permits, and access permits. Mr. Chacanias is a member of the Monmouth Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association. He earned his B.A. degree from Seton Hall University and his J.D. degree from Seton Hall University School of Law.
Frederic W Knaak is a partner in the law firm HKB Law, P.A., located in the northeastern Twin Cities, where his 42 year practice has included real estate, zoning and land use, municipal law, public and election law, including substantial trial and appellate litigation experience in a number of state and federal courts. For ten years, Mr. Knaak served in the Minnesota Senate, representing a suburban district northeast of St. Paul. He was the minority floor leader and served during his entire tenure on the Data Practices Subcommittee where he was directly involved in the drafting and amending of the Minnesota Data Practices Act and the Open Meeting Law of that state.
Karl F Kumli III is a shareholder and chair of the energy and water law practice group of the law firm of Dietze and Davis, P.C., where his practice is limited to public utility (electricity and natural gas matters) and water rights law. Mr. Kumli represents clients before courts and administrative agencies with jurisdiction over water or energy-related matters. His practice has expanded beyond Colorado to include energy clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region. His cases have ranged from genteel transactions to those which have been decidedly less so. He represents public and private entities. Mr. Kumli particularly enjoys working with water and energy clients to meet long-term resource challenges. He has been qualified as an expert witness in Colorado District Court and Water Court on issues involving integration of state water rights law with federal energy law. He is a past president of the Boulder County Bar Association and the immediate past chair of the Colorado Bar Association's Section on Natural Resources and Energy Law. Mr. Kumli created and hosted the television program Law & Justice, which presented diverse legal topics to the general public. He is a member of the courts of the Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico. He is a regular lecturer to law school classes, continuing legal education classes, trade associations, and technical conferences. Mr. Kumli earned his B.A. degree from Stanford University and his J.D. degree from the University of the Pacific.
Ben M Rose is a member of RoseArters, PLLC, in Brentwood, Tennessee. Mr. Rose practices throughout the state of Tennessee in the areas of administrative law, business commercial and corporate law, civil rights and employment law, probate, criminal law, domestic relations, government relations, and personal injury. He is a member of the Williamson County, Nashville, Tennessee (Litigation and Administrative Law divisions) bar associations; Defense Research Institute; Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association; and Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Mr. Rose has served as an adjunct professor with the University of Tennessee, College of Law, pre-trial litigation; and an instructor, University of Tennessee, Paralegal Studies Program. He received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from The American University in Washington, D.C.; and his J.D. degree from the University of Tennessee, where he was the recipient of the Charles D. Miller Award for Excellence in civil advocacy.
