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Primary Members

Primary membership within Owners’ Counsel of America is by invitation only and is limited to but one Primary member per state. Each OCA Primary member has been carefully selected for membership based on ability, experience, results and dedication to representing private property owners in eminent domain, inverse condemnation, regulatory takings and other property rights matters.

When you retain an OCA Primary member, you have access to the collective legal minds, experiences and know how of every other OCA lawyer. As a result, not only are you getting a leader in the field of eminent domain and takings law, but someone who has the support and resources that only OCA membership can provide.

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Adjunct Members

Adjunct members of OCA include eminent domain and property rights lawyers who focus their practice upon eminent domain, expropriation or property rights litigation in a Territory of the United States or Canada. Currently, OCA has one Adjunct member by the name of Shane Rayman who practices in Ontario, Canada.

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Honorary Members

Honorary OCA members include eminent domain and property rights lawyers with the highest credentials and experience. OCA’s Honorary members are associated with non-profits, public interest law firms, or other business associations. Honorary members can also be full-time academics who concentrate their teachings and scholarship on real property litigation, takings, eminent domain law and private property rights.

The names of all current Honorary members of OCA are listed below. Simply click on the name to view their professional profile.

Amy Brigham Boulris (Gunster Yoakley & Stewart, P.A.)
Dana Berliner (Institute For Justice)
James Burling (Pacific Legal Foundation)
Michael Berger (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP)
Robert McNamara (Institute For Justice)
Robert Thomas (Pacific Legal Foundation)

Former Honorary members of OCA are listed below, and OCA recognizes with gratitude their contributions to the cause of private property rights and their involvement in Owners’ Counsel of America.

Gideon Kanner

Emeritus Members

Even after Primary members retire or transition to a less active practice, many continue to be actively involved in OCA. These Emeritus members, many of who were founding members of OCA, make the organization stronger through their dedication and continuing contributions.

Current Emeritus members of Owners’ Counsel include: Keith Babcock (SC), William Blake (NE), Heather Cunningham (ID), Robert Denlow (MO), Dennis Dunphy (WA), Michael Faherty (PA), Jill Gelineau (OR), John Hamilton (KS), Mark Savin (MN), James Thompson (MD), Joseph Waldo (NC), and Joe Willis (OR).

Affiliate Members

Affiliate members include eminent domain and property rights lawyers who are employed with a Primary or Adjunct member’s law firm and whose practice coincides with that Primary or Adjunct member’s practice. Please contact the Executive Director for a complete list of all current Affiliate members of OCA.