Jeffery Lucas to Present at #WVSPS25
WVSPS is excited to welcome Jeffery Lucas, who will be presenting “Better Business Practices and the Law,” “What Went Wrong?,” “Land Surveyor in Court,” and “Relevancy in the 21st Century” during the WVSPS 2025 Annual Convention at the Days Inn & Suites in Flatwoods, WV.
Jeffery Lucas
Better Business Practices and the Law (4 PDH)
Friday, February 7, 2025, 8:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
What do better business practices have to do with the law? Plenty! Put another way, better business practices must be in harmony with the law that affects our practice as professional service providers (land surveyors, engineers, architects, etc.). The law that most affects us as professional service providers is property law, contracts, negligence, torts, the common law, administrative law, and statutory law.
What Went Wrong? (4 PDH)
Friday, February 7, 2025, 1:15 PM – 5:30 PM EST
As I continue “Traversing the Law,” studying and writing about court cases involving boundary disputes and land surveyors, I have found everything from the ridiculous to the sublime. In some cases, I had to shake my head in disbelief over what I was reading, leaving me with just one question: What went wrong?
Land Surveyor in Court (4 PDH)
Saturday, February 8, 2025, 8:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
There are the two primary ways in which the surveyor will end up in court. The surveyor may be called to be an expert witness where testimony will be given either in defense of a fellow surveyor’s work, or to help establish the standard of care that a fellow surveyor failed to meet. Or the surveyor will go to court to defend his or her on work. In either case, the surveyor must be prepared to face the challenges of testifying.
Relevancy in the 21st Century (4 PDH)
Saturday, February 8, 2025, 1:15 PM – 5:30 PM EST
Will surveying, as we know it, remain relevant in the 21st century, or are land surveyors destined to become the buggy-whip manufacturers of our time? Today, anyone with a smart-phone or a drone has the ability to be an expert measurer. If expert measuring ability is all that the land surveying profession has to offer, then the land surveying profession has nothing unique to bring to the table moving forward. In addition, GIS mapping is getting to the point where it is being perceived by stake-holders as just as good as a survey. In today’s politically charged environment, it is clear that perception is the new reality.
Have you registered for the 57th Annual WVSPS Convention? If not, you can register online today by clicking here. We’ll see you in Flatwoods!