Reclaiming Challenged Property for Public Use

Ms. Ferster focuses on litigation and advocacy to enforce federal environmental and historic preservation laws, tax exempt organizations, enforcement of local zoning and land use ordinances, and trail and greenway planning. She has lectured frequently on historic preservation law and serves as General Counsel to the Rails to Trails Conservancy. Ms. Ferster received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1979 and her J.D. from the George Washington University National Law Center in 1984. She is a member of the District of Columbia and New York Bars, and the bars of numerous federal courts.

Ms. Largent is a nationally recognized advocate for property owners, leveraging deep experience in federal takings law to secure compensation for clients whose private property is taken for public use. Her practice focuses both on how to establish when property rights are taken by the government and how to value those property rights.

Meghan Largent is a nationally recognized advocate for property owners, leveraging deep experience in federal takings law to secure compensation for clients whose private property is taken for public use. Her practice focuses both on how to establish when property rights are taken by the government and how to value those property rights.

As a leader of Lewis Rice’s Federal Takings & Rails to Trails Practice Group, Ms. Largent has represented thousands of landowners nationwide in pursuing payment from the federal government for the taking of their property as a result of the National Trails System Act. She has devoted much of her career to advancing this area of law and has been directly involved in many of the precedent-setting cases in this field.