In addition to her skills as a trial lawyer, Mrs. Schroeder is a veteran instructor with LORMAN Educational Services and for various water organizations in the West having made noteworthy the "Water Law Bootcamp." Her “expression and gift for delivery were developed in her prior life as a drama major and winner of the Best Supporting Actress Award in 1970 while attending Valparaiso University for her undergraduate degree in Speech and Theatre.”
She can speak on any of the topics below.
| TOPICS |
Presenters |
Length |
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| Adjudications |
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| Preparing a Claim for Successful Adjudication of Historical Use |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Groundwater Registrations: Lost Opportunity |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Indian Claims in Water Right Adjudications: Their Limits, Possibilities and Challenges |
LAS |
2-3 hrs |
| Enforcement on Pre-Code Uses, Registrations, and Claims:Forcing an Adjudication |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Making a Case for a Walton Right |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Administrative Law and Administrative Appeals |
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| Preparing for A Contested Case |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Establishing Policy, Checklist, and Procedure for Protests to Applications, Extensions, Certificates, and Transfers |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Agri-Business |
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| Agricultural Use of Water |
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| Irrigated Agriculture in the Water Sweepstakes |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Fundamentals of Water Law for Farmers |
LAS |
2-5 hrs |
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| Appeals |
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| Appealing an Adverse Agency Order |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Business Incorporation |
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| When and How to Use a Corporation as a Water Management Organization |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Bureau of Reclamation; Army Corps of Engineers |
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| The Changing Emphasis of the United States Bureau Water Agencies and the Effect on Private Water Rights |
LAS |
1 hr |
| Water Right Transfers and Cancellations: Contract Implications |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Negotiating With Federal Agencies: Storage, Water Use, Facilities, and When Available Contracts and Leasing |
LAS |
2-3 hrs |
| Water Right Transfers and Cancellations: Reclamation Contract Implications |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Cancellation, Forfeiture, or Abandonment |
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| Preparing and Responding to an Affidavit of Cancellation |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Sustaining Your Water Right Against A Cancellation Challenge |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Certification |
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| Checklist for Certification: Before You Submit Beneficial Use |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Water Code Basics: Applications, Permits, Extensions, Amendments, Certificates and Transfers |
LAS |
2-6 hrs |
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| Civil Litigation |
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| Tort Recovery for Overlying Landowner When Storm Water Drain Construction Destroys an Underground Aquifer |
LAS |
1 hr |
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| Contracts |
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| Negotiating Storage Contracts with Reclamation |
LAS |
3 hrs |
| Drafting Water Delivery Contracts |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Drafting Storage Use Agreements |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Drafting Well Share Agreements |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Critical/Limited Areas |
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| Establishing Critical and Limited Groundwater Areas |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Resolving Conflicts Between Exempt and Existing Water Rights in Critical and Limited Areas |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Water Right Regulation's Failure to Prevent Aquifer Mining |
LAS |
1 hr |
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| Dam Removal/Replacement |
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| Opportunities and Challenges in Dam Removal |
LAS |
2-6 hrs |
| Dam Safety Issues |
LAS |
1-3 hrs |
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| Dredge/Fill Permitting |
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| Acquiring Dredge/Fill Permits for Land Use Approval to Build or Increase Water Storage |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| When BAD things happen to GOOD people: Losing the AG Exemption |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Domestic/Municipal Purveyors |
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| Municipal Water Right Permit Extensions |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Preventing Environmental Losses for Municipalities |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Determining Service Area and Appropriate Rates |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Compliance with Well Head Protection Requirements |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Preparing A Water Management Plan |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Establishing SDC for Water Right Conveyance |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Permit Terms, Rules, Statutes and Policy: Steps for Compliance |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Checklist for Certification: Before You Submit Beneficial Use |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Water Code Basics: Applications, Permits, Extensions, Amendments, Certificates and Transfers |
LAS |
2-4 hrs |
| "Finding" and Acquiring Water Rights |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Maximizing Existing Water Rights |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Increasing a Water Utility Rate |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Easements |
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| Law of Easements: Legal Issues and Practical Considerations |
LAS |
2-6 hrs |
| Advanced Easement Protection for Irrigation Districts |
LAS |
2-6 hrs |
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| Energy/Utility Rights, Permits, Licenses |
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| Cell Tower Easements |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Geothermal Rights and Permitting |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Hydropower Rights and Permitting |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Solar Rights and Permitting |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Wind Power Rights and Permitting |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Extensions |
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| Municipal Water Right Permit Extensions: Planning for the Future |
LAS |
1-3 hrs |
| When and How to File An Extension Application |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Water Code Basics: Applications, Permits, Extensions, Amendments, Certificates and Transfers |
LAS |
2-6 hrs |
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| Federal Laws Affecting Water |
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| Clean Water Act Basics |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Endangered Species Act Basics |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Wild and Scenic River Act Basics |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Drinking Water Act Basics |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Federal Energy Regulation Basics |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| National Environmental Policy Act Basics |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| National Historic Preservation Act-Section 106 (Cultural Resources) Basics |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Securing Ditch and Road Access Across Public Lands |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Groundwater Interference/Connection |
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| Groundwater Studies: Implications for Water Use Permitting and Transfer |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Exempt Groundwater Uses: Natural Right or End Run on Appropriation |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Hydrologic Connection Transfers |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Instream Rights/Leasing |
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| Instream Rights: Legal or Illegal? |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Water Shaping Within the Context of an Instream Right |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| International |
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| World Need for Water Wells |
LAS |
1 hr |
| Challenges to Revising Water Codes in the Former Soviet Union |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Contracting Internationally for Muncipal System Water Operators |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Legislation and Policy Issues |
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| Domestic Water: Constitutional Protection As "Right to Life" |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Current Policy Debates: Who Owns the Water Right |
LAS |
1-3 hrs |
| Legislative Developments in State Law |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Rule Making and Its Statutory Implications |
LAS |
1 hr |
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| Litigation |
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| Final Orders: Reconsideration or PJR? |
LAS |
1-3 hrs |
| Appealing an Adverse Agency Order |
LAS |
1-3 hrs |
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| Permitting |
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| Preparing a Successful Permit Application |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Water Code Basics: Applications, Permits, Extensions, Amendments, Certificates and Transfers |
LAS |
2-6 hrs |
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| Pond Permitting |
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| The "New" Pond: Underground Storage and Permitting |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| System Bulge, Pond or Reservoir: When and What Permit Is Required? |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Public Lands |
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| Using Federal Acts to Protect Your Water Conveyance Facilities Through Public Lands |
LAS |
1-3 hrs |
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| Public Records/Meeting Compliance |
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| Public Records Requests and Organizing the Water Rights File(s) for Purposes of Water Use Management |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Special Districts: Agendas, Minutes, Resolutions, Special Meetings, Handling Public and News Reporters |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Setting Assessments and Foreclosing on a Special District Lien |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Regulatory Compliance |
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| Permit Terms, Rules, Statutes and Policy: Steps for Compliance |
LAS |
2-4 hrs |
| Checklist for Certification: Before You Submit Beneficial Use |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Water Code Basics: Applications, Permits, Extensions, Amendments, Certificates and Transfers |
LAS |
2-6 hrs |
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| Special Districts |
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| Opportunities and Challenges to Water Management Organizations |
LAS |
2-4 hrs |
| Irrigation District Procedures and Policies |
LAS |
2-3 hrs |
| Setting Irrigation District Board Policy |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Advanced Easement Protection for Irrigation Districts |
LAS |
2-4 hrs |
| Special Districts: Agendas, Minutes, Resolutions, Special Meetings, Handling Public and News Reporters |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Setting Assessments and Foreclosing on a Special District Lien |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Lessons Learned: Title Transfer of Reclamation Facilities |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Storage Contracts |
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| Takings Implications of Government Storage Contracts |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Storm/Drainage Permits and Easements |
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| Tort Recovery for Overlying Landowner When Storm Water Drain Construction Destroys an Underground Aquifer |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Challenges to Accepting Waste and Storm Water Into Existing Irrigation Facilities |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Transactions |
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| Due Diligence in Water Rights Sales and Leasing |
LAS |
1-4 hrs |
| Defining Injury in Water Rights Transfers |
LAS |
1-4 hrs |
| Retaining Private Property Interests in Water |
LAS |
1-4 hrs |
| Water Right Due Diligence In Real Estate Transactions |
LAS |
1-4 hrs |
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| Transfers |
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| Water Right Transfers |
LAS |
2-4 hrs |
| Defining Injury in Water Rights Transfers |
LAS |
2-4 hrs |
| Transfer Protests in Contested Case |
LAS |
2-4 hrs |
| Water Law Basics: Hydrologic Connection Transfers and Well Sharing Agreements |
LAS |
2-4 hrs |
| Water Code Basics: Applications, Permits, Extensions, Amendments, Certificates and Transfers |
LAS |
2-6 hrs |
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| Water Law Education |
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| Oregon Water Rights Boot Camp |
LAS |
1-6 hrs |
| Washington Water Rights Boot Camp |
LAS |
1-6 hrs |
| Nevada Water Rights Boot Camp |
LAS |
1-6 hrs |
| Idaho Water Rights Boot Camp |
LAS |
1-6 hrs |
| Water Rights Academy: Class Chooses Topics |
LAS |
1-6 hrs |
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| Water Management/Conservation/Planning |
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| Preparing A Water Management Plan |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Managing Surface and Ground Water: A State by State Approach |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Water Rights in the U.S.: Addressing Shortages |
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| Federal and State Conflicts in Water Control |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Water Management Organizations |
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| Determining Service Area and Appropriate Rates |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Incorporation Formalities In Private Water Management Organizations |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Preparing A Water Management Plan |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Permit Terms, Rules, Statutes and Policy: Steps for Compliance |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Checklist for Certification: Before You Submit Beneficial Use |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Water Code Basics: Applications, Permits, Extensions, Amendments, Certificates and Transfers |
LAS |
2-4 hrs |
| "Finding" and Acquiring Water Rights |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| How to Form An Irrigation District |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Maximizing Existing Water Rights |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Water Quality |
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| Water Quality, Water Quantity: The Reluctant Marriage |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
| Compliance with Health and Drinking Water Standards |
LAS |
2 hrs |
| Integrated Water Management: Who Plays? |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Water Right Title/Recording |
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| Updating Water Right Ownership With the Agency |
LAS |
1 hr |
| Using Deeds and Easements to Record Water Right Ownership |
LAS |
1 hr |
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| Water Rights Acquisitions and Sales |
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| Water Sales and Transfers |
LAS |
1-4 hrs |
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| Well Share and Water Delivery Agreements |
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| Hydrologic Connection Issues and Transfers |
LAS |
1-3 hrs |
| Groundwater Wells: Use and Shared Use Agreements |
LAS |
2-3 hrs |
| Drafting Policy, Rule, Ordinance, Contracts or Easements for Water Delivery |
LAS |
1-2 hrs |
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| Wetlands Compliance and Permitting |
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| The When, Where, Why, What and How of Wetland Permitting |
LAS |
2 hrs |
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| Other |
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| Significance of Sacred Water in the Baptism of Jesus |
LAS |
1 hr |
