Joshua Cole
Licensed North Dakota attorney ยท Legal editorial advisor and land use specialist
Joshua Cole is a licensed North Dakota attorney with two decades of specialized experience in Bakken energy development and land use.
He advises developers, landowners, and infrastructure companies through complex right-of-way acquisitions, easement agreements, leasing, and regulatory compliance.
That work sits on both sides of the same table: negotiating corridor terms for the company that needs the route, and reading the same instruments for the landowner whose acreage carries it. He serves as legal editorial advisor to this site, setting the sourcing standards the research desk writes to. Recorded documents, the state code, and the county indexes where these rights actually live.
Focus areas
- Right-of-way acquisition and corridor routing
- Pipeline, gathering-line, and electric transmission easements
- Oil, gas, wind, and solar leasing
- Surface use and damage agreements
- Title review, easement defects, and curative work
- State and federal regulatory compliance for energy infrastructure
Editorial role
Articles and guides on Easements.com are compiled by the Easements.com research desk using automated research tools together with primary sources: state statutes, published court opinions, county recorder publications and public GIS records. Joshua Cole serves as legal editorial advisor, setting the sourcing and accuracy standards the library is written to. That advisory role is not an individualized legal review of any article for your property, and reading this site does not create an attorney-client relationship.
The guides, state law summaries and county recording pages on this site are written against primary sources: state statutes, recorded instruments, county recorder publications and published court opinions. Where a page states a period, a filing step or a fee, it links to the source that publishes it.
This material is general information for the public, not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Easement outcomes turn on the exact recorded wording and on the law of the state where the land sits. For a specific parcel, a licensed attorney or surveyor in that state is the right person to advise you.
Our sourcing rules, correction policy and the primary sources behind the library are set out on the editorial standards page.
Scope of license
Joshua Cole is admitted to practice law in the State of North Dakota. Material on this site that addresses the law of other jurisdictions is published as general educational research only, and is not legal practice, representation, or local counsel in those states.
Corrections and contact
If something on this site is wrong, tell us the page and the source that contradicts it through support, and we will correct or remove the claim.