As an undergraduate, Rovianne Leigh discovered a passion for Indian law. “I became interested in Indian law as a vehicle for social change,” Leigh said. Since graduating in 2005 from the University of California Berkeley School of Law, Leigh has served...
On July 8, 2013, Judge Kahn of the federal court in Albany, New York, upheld the Mohawk claim to approximately 2,000 acres taken by the State of New York in a series of transactions in 1824 and 1825 that violated the federal Trade and Intercourse Act. The court also...
The North Coast’s three-year Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative process concluded on June 6, 2012, with the State of California formally recognizing and protecting the Tribes’ traditional use of marine resources by establishing a new category for...
The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians, represented by Scott Williams, successfully confirmed its rights to fish and gather on its ancestral lands along the Sonoma Coast in California. On June 24, 2010, the California Fish and Game Commission agreed to the Tribe’s proposal...
Berkey Williams LLP has been privileged to assist the Mattaponi Tribe in Virginia in its successful fight to stop the construction of a reservoir dam on the Mattaponi River. You can read more about this here. For millennia, the Tribe has depended on the River for shad...
On September 29, 2009, Scott Williams, as counsel to the Yurok Tribe and part of the Yurok Tribe’s negotiation team, successfully concluded negotiations on an agreement to remove four dams in the Klamath River. The New York Times accurately describes the dam removal...
