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...
The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation Join Coalition Lawsuit Against BLM’s Authorization of Southern Nevada Water Authority’s Massive Groundwater Mining and Pipeline Project. Tribal Press Release here.
The Goshute Tribe, represented by Scott Williams, was successful in the first stage of court proceedings challenging a proposal to withdraw and export to Las Vegas, massive amounts of groundwater from the Great Basin of Nevada/Utah, the Tribe’s ancestral lands. In a...
