The Yurok Tribe recently designated Scott Williams to be its representative on the Board of Directors of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation. The sole mission of the Corporation is to secure the removal of the four major dams on the Klamath River. The Corporation,...
On Saturday, June 25, 2016, the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians celebrated with prayer, dance, and food the return to Tribal control of a piece of its ancestral lands, now known as the Kashia Coastal Reserve. The Reserve is on the Northern California coast contiguous to...
On April 22, 2016, Managing Partner Curtis Berkey presented an analysis of the Jay Treaty of 1794 at a conference on Inter-Tribal Trade at the University of Oklahoma Law School. The conference was organized by lawyers and scholars in the United States and Canada to...
Berkey Williams LLP represented the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians in a complicated transaction to reacquire a critical part of the Tribe’s ancestral lands. In early December 2015, the Kashia Band obtained fee title to nearly 700 acres of ancestral land on the coast of...
Berkey Williams LLP is pleased to announce the promotion of Rovianne A. Leigh and Alexandra C. Page to partner. Ms. Leigh became the firm’s first Public Interest Indian Law Fellow after graduating from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), and continued with...
Working with Onondaga Nation General Counsel Joe Heath, Berkey Williams LLP attorneys Alex Page and Curtis Berkey crafted the Nation’s petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Go...