Originating as a land development and land sales agency in King County, Washington, GCR has evolved and pioneered a specialty craft of identifying and investigating public land records so as to produce case-worthy evidence. The GCR research and evidence production has been used to facilitate numerous resolutions regarding real estate property issues and controversies.

GCR’s specialty areas of study, research, discovery, evidence production, analysis, and Expert Witness services include, but have not been limited to, the following matters:

• historically created subdivisions, Legal Lots, and vested property rights
• historically created railroad rights of way;
• public and private road rights of way;
• abstract and forensic chain of title research;
• historic and applied Federal, State, and Local Land Laws and Regulations;
• extrinsic evidence research and production;
• research in both Recorded and Un-recorded matters of Public Record 

Graddon’s research has focused on Federal, Territorial, State, and County historically created property records generated between c.1860 and c.1974.

GCR has demonstrated a notable ability and developed a significant reputation for its factual historic document production in investigations and comparative studies. Clients’ land use issues and legal battles often turn on GCR’s ability to discover factual information and documents that heretofore seem to have been overlooked or seemed absent from the public records.

Graddon has been a contributing author, stakeholder, and research participant in reviewing and implementing various jurisdictional land use policies, codes, rules, and regulations. 

Graddon’s Legal Lot investigations involve researching its own privately maintained property record data bases as well as those archived property records maintained by various governmental agencies.