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Eminent Domain · Condemnation · Land Takings
The first offer is the floor.
Not the ceiling.
If a state agency, city, pipeline company, or utility is trying to take your land — for a highway, pipeline, transmission line, or public project — you are not required to accept their first number. Landowners who hire experienced counsel often recover meaningfully more.
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Ranches & Farms
Highway Takings
Pipeline Easements
Transmission Lines
Commercial Property
What Is Eminent Domain?
The government can take your land. It cannot underpay for it.
State agencies, cities, pipeline companies, and utilities can invoke eminent domain to take private property for public use — highways, transmission lines, pipelines, reservoirs, schools. What they cannot do is force you to accept below-market compensation.
The first offer is the condemnor’s appraisal — not an independent one. It rarely accounts for damages to the remainder of your property, loss of access, business damages, or the highest and best use of the land. Landowners who retain experienced eminent domain counsel often recover meaningfully more than the initial number.
The Sentinel Group is a legal marketing service. We connect landowners facing condemnation with experienced eminent domain attorneys in our nationwide network. The case review is free. There is no obligation. Attorneys work on a contingency of the increase — you keep 100% of the initial offer.
No remainder damages — the offer values only the strip taken and ignores how the taking hurts the rest of your property.
Access, drainage, or visibility lost — a highway or pipeline reroutes traffic, blocks entry, or floods what’s left.
Business damages ignored — a commercial owner’s operations are disrupted or destroyed and the offer doesn’t reflect it.
Deadline pressure — an artificial “final offer” clock designed to push you into signing before you can get an independent appraisal.
Who Is Taking Your Land
The condemnor changes. The playbook doesn’t.
Our attorney network handles condemnation matters against state agencies, municipalities, pipeline companies, and utilities across the country.
Highway & Road Widening
TxDOT, Caltrans, and other state DOTs acquire strips and full parcels for interstates, bypasses, and overpasses. Access and remainder damages are frequently understated.
Pipeline Easements
Transmission & Utility
City & Municipal
How It Works
A simple, confidential path
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Contingency on the increase
Who Is Taking Your Land
The condemnor changes. The playbook doesn’t.
Our attorney network handles condemnation matters against state agencies, municipalities, pipeline companies, and utilities across the country.
01
Tell us the situation
02
Speak with a case manager
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Matched with an attorney
04
Contingency on the increase
FAQ
Honest answers to the questions we hear most.
Can I stop the government from taking my land?
Rarely. If the condemning authority has valid statutory power and can show the taking is for a public use, the taking itself will usually go through. What most landowners can change is the compensation — the amount paid for the land taken and the damages caused to the property that remains.
How are attorneys in your network paid?
Most eminent domain attorneys in our network work on a contingency of the increase. That means you keep 100% of the condemnor’s initial offer, and the attorney’s fee is a percentage of the additional amount recovered above that offer. If there is no increase, there is typically no fee. Specific terms appear in the written attorney–client agreement you would sign separately.
The offer looks like fair market value. Do I still need an attorney?
Often, yes. The condemnor’s appraisal is prepared by an appraiser hired by the condemnor. It frequently understates remainder damages — the loss of value to the part of your property that is not taken — as well as business damages, access loss, drainage impact, and highest-and-best-use value. An independent appraisal usually tells a different story.
They already filed a lawsuit. Is it too late?
Usually not. In many states — including Texas — the process moves through a special commissioners hearing before a jury trial is available. Objections and other filings have hard deadlines, so the sooner you talk to a lawyer after suit is filed, the more options remain.
Is The Sentinel Group a law firm?
No. The Sentinel Group is a legal marketing and case-intake service. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice. We connect potential claimants with independent law firms in our attorney network. No attorney-client relationship is formed by contacting us. Any attorney-client relationship would be formed only after you sign a written agreement directly with a law firm.
Will my information be sold?
No. Your information is used only to evaluate your potential matter and connect you with an attorney if appropriate. We do not sell your contact data to unrelated third parties. See our Privacy Policy for details.
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