Nettleman Land Consultants, Inc.

Dr. Tony Nettleman is a professional land surveyor in six states (Florida, Texas, New Mexico, California, Alabama, and South Dakota) as well as a licensed attorney in Florida.

Tony is a nationally-recognized author of land surveying textbooks including Clark on Surveying, Evidence & Procedure for Boundary Location, and Brown's Boundary Control. These books have collectively been cited hundreds of times in state courts across the country. Tony also publishes extensively in peer-review and trade journals.

Dr. Nettleman has helped hundreds of land owners resolve land disputes in over a dozen courts throughout the nation. His testimony has never been successfully Daubert challenged and he greatly enjoys the fieldwork, land research, and testifying.

Dr. Nettleman's areas of practice include boundary, easement, title, riparian, and negligence claim. Additionally, Tony teaches university courses as a professor, lectures nationwide to audiences of surveyors in one-day seminars and has helped hundreds of students gain their surveying licenses. Dr. Nettleman also is an officer/committee member with the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS).

Services

Dr. Nettleman serves as an expert witness in land boundary, riparian rights/water boundary, easement, title disputes, and other property-related issues.

Areas of Expertise

Additional Expertise:

Professional Land Surveyor, Real Estate Property Dispute, Land Boundary, Easement Dispute, Land Easement, Title Dispute, Land Surveyor, Professional Land Surveyor, Land Survey Negligence, Land Surveyor Negligence, Professional Land Surveyor Negligence, Boundary, Riparian Water, Riparian Boundary, Riparian Ownership and Use, Water Boundary, Dock Boundary.

Profile

Nettleman Land Consultants, INC, founded and owned by Dr. Tony Nettleman, operates with the heart of a teacher to educate land surveyors, attorneys, and the courts about land and riparian survey practices and legal principles.

NLC has helped many landowners resolve their land disputes by finding key land documents, clearly and objectively analyzing land records and survey data based on industry-standard surveying principles and explaining the results and conclusions to our clients and the courts. If you have a land-related problem, please contact us today to learn how we can help you.

Areas Served

Nation Wide

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Professional Experience

President and Owner, Nettleman Land Consultants, Inc., 2012-Present
•Provides expert knowledge to attorneys and property owners in the area of real estate law, teach university and continuing education classes, and author land surveying textbooks
•Serves as an expert witness by investigating land disputes, writing expert reports, being deposed and testifying in court - five to ten cases-per-year
•Creates and teaches six to ten land surveying continuing education classes per year
•Authors and teaches live and online exam preparation courses for four land surveying exams

Land Law Consultant, Walter G. Robillard & Associates, 2003-2013
•Worked closely with leading land law attorney conducting ancient document research, attending depositions and trials, and presenting continuing education classes
•Created a land information system with over 200 historic land records, many dating from the nineteenth century in different languages and units of measure, that resulted in protecting clients from several hundred million dollars of liability
•Consulted with Eskimo tribes in boundary dispute in the Aleutian Islands that protected communal tribal lands from competing title claims

Geomaticist I, Post, Buckley, Schuh, and Jernigan, 2009
•Selected for a company pilot program which tasked recent graduates with completing land surveying projects from field-to-finish
•Performed construction surveys, ALTA surveys, and GIS data collection surveys (field to finish)
•Collected, analyzed, and mapped over 100,000 survey data points for U.S. Military geodatabases under a multi-million-dollar contract with the Department of Defense.

Licenses

2019 - Alabama Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) #38541-S
2019 - California Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) #L9535
2019 - New Mexico Professional Surveyor (PS) #25343
2018 - South Dakota Professional Land Surveyor
2016 - Texas Registered Professional Land Surveyor (RPLS) #6633
2015 - Florida Attorney #117042
2010 - Florida Professional Surveyor and Mapper (PSM) #6853

Affiliations

2008 - Present: International Federation of Land Surveyors (FIG)
2006 - Present: National Society of Professional Land Surveyors (NSPS)
2013 - Present: Geographic and Land Information Society (GLIS)
2010 - Present: Florida Society of Mappers and Surveyors (FSMS)
2015 - Present: Texas Society of Professional Surveyors (TSPS)
2019 - Present: California Society of Professional Surveyors

Qualifications

PhD in Land Surveying and Extensive Professional Practice Experience.

Seminars & Training

Academic conference presentations

C.A. Nettleman, III, A. Abd-Elrahman, G. Barnes, T. Ruppert, B. Dewitt, T. Fik. 2012 “Modeling Coastal Climate Change Policies through a GIS Model.” Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL. Sea Level Rise Summit.

C.A. Nettleman, III, A. Abd-Elrahman, G. Barnes, T. Ruppert, B. Dewitt, T. Fik. 2012 “Modeling Coastal Climate Change Policies through a GIS Model.” Rome, Italy. Working Week 2012, International Federation of Surveyors.

Invited lectures

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2017 “An Introduction to the Analytical Portion of the Texas RPLS Exam.” Houston, TX. Texas Society of Professional Surveyors (TSPS).

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2016 “Student to Texas RPLS.” Waco, TX. TSTC Community College.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2013 “The Future of Young Surveyors.” Tyler, TX. FIG SAGES.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2012 “What is the Future of the Land Surveying Profession?” Rome, Italy. FIG Young Surveyors.

Guest lectures

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2014 “Legal Principles of Land Surveying: Structure of the U.S. court system” Boca Raton, FL. Florida Atlantic University.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2014 “How Coastal Policies are Made in Florida.” Miami, FL. FIU Law.

Professional Development Workshops

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2020 “Deeds, Descriptions, & the law” and “Boundaries, Boundaries!” Indianapolis, IN. Indiana Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2019 “Legal Aspects of Surveying,” “Ethics for Surveyors,” and “Boundaries, Boundaries!” Salinas, KS. Salinas Seminars.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2019 “Water Boundaries,” “The Surveyor's Report,” “The Elusive Center of Section,” and “Ethics for Surveyors” Natchez, MS. Mississippi Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2019 “Deeds, Descriptions, & the law,” “Legal Aspects of Surveying,” “The Elusive Center of Section,” and “Ethics for Surveyors” Ada, OK. True North Survey Seminars.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2017 “Legal Aspects of Surveying” and “Boundaries, Boundaries!” Natchez, MS. Mississippi Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2017 “Three Worlds of Surveying” and “Deeds, Descriptions and the Law.” Albuquerque, NM. New Mexico Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2017 “Equitable Servitudes and Covenants” and “Deeds, Descriptions and the Law.” Myrtle Beach, SC. South Carolina Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2017 “Boundaries, Boundaries!” and “Three Worlds of Surveying.” Rockland, ME. Maine Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2016 “Boundaries, Boundaries!” and “Three Worlds of Surveying.” Myrtle Beach, SC. South Carolina Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2016 “Boundaries, Boundaries.” Nashville, TN. Tennessee Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2016 “Ethics for Surveyors,” “Elusive Center of Section,” and “Three Worlds of Surveying.” Indianapolis, IN. Indiana Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2015 “Easements and Rights of Way.” Houston, TX Texas Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2015. “Easements and Rights of Way.” Orlando, FL.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2015. “Water Boundaries.” Pensacola, FL.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2015 “Three Worlds of Surveying,” “Easements and Rights of Way,” and “Water Boundaries.” Nashville, TN. Tennessee Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2015 “The Successful Surveying Business” and “Easements and Rights of Way” Columbia, SC. South Carolina Society of Professional Surveyors.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2014 “Creating and Terminating Easements in Florida” Ft Lauderdale, FL. Florida Society of Professional Land Surveyors, Broward Chapter.

C.A. Nettleman, III. 2012 “Boundaries, Boundaries.” Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Florida Society of Surveyors.

Publications

Books

Nettleman III, C.A. 2020. Clark on Surveying and Boundaries. Lexis Pub.

Wilson, D. A., Nettleman III, C.A. 2020. Evidence and Procedure for Boundary Location. John Wiley & Sons.

Robillard, W. G., Wilson, D. A., Brown, C. M, Nettleman III, C.A. (technical editor for water boundaries chapter) (2014). Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Principles. John Wiley & Sons.

Peer-reviewed journal articles (published)

Nettleman III, C. A. 2017. “A Review of ABET-Accredited Bachelors of Surveying Programs.” Surveying and Land Information Science.

Nettleman III, C. A., Adams, D., Ruppert, T. 2016 “A GIS Model of Rolling Easement Policies in Pinellas and Sarasota Florida" Journal of Ocean and Coastal Management.

Nettleman, III, C.A.; Ruppert, Thomas; Abd-Elrahman, Amr; Adams, Damian; Barnes, Grenville; Fik, Timothy; Dewitt, Bon. 2014 "GIS-based Modeling of Sea Level Rise's Effect on Coastal Property Management Policies." Surveying and Land Information Science.

Nettleman, III, C.A.; Ruppert, Thomas; Abd-Elrahman, Amr; Adams, Damian; Barnes, Grenville; Fik, Timothy; Dewitt, Bon. 2012 "A Contemporary Review of Deficiencies Associated with Calculated Tidal Datums and Property Ownership Law " Surveying and Land Information Sciences.

Nettleman III, C. A., Jeffress, Gary. 2010 "Necessity for a Dedicated Land Court." Surveying and Land Information Science.

Li Bai, Risa Patarasuk, Yin-Hsuen Chen, Sanchayeeta Adhikari, C. A. Nettleman III, Scarlett Arana.2011 "Multi-criteria Approach for Wind Farm Site Selection in New Hampshire" Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.

Calkins, B.; Aspaas, L.; Nettleman III, C.A.; Ramirez, A.; Spolar, K.; Trammell, T. 2008. “The Boundary Survey of the United States and Mexico ‘Hidalgo de Guadalupe Medir'-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848).” Surveying and Land Information Science. (peer reviewed).

Education

2014 - Doctorate of Philosophy in Geomatics (PhD)
University of Florida
Wrote four peer-reviewed articles, spoke at 12 events and presented 10+research posters
Dissertation: “GIS Modeling of Coastal Policy Options in Response to Sea Level Rise” comprised of four peer-reviewed articles

2014 - Juris Doctor (JD)
Florida International University
Dean's List honors
Two semesters of the Environmental Clinic

2009 - Master of Science in Geospatial Surveying Engineering Computer Science (MS)
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Graduated with honors
Master's thesis: “Necessity for a Dedicated Land Court"

2008 - Bachelor of Science in Land Surveying Engineering (BS)
New Mexico State University
Lambda Sigma Honor Society
Bureau of Land Management Research Intern