December 2009

Charity Kenyon was elected to be a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers at the Academy’s recent meeting. The Academy was founded in 1990 to recognize outstanding appellate lawyers and promote the improvement of appellate advocacy and the administration of the appellate courts. Academy membership is open only to persons who possesses a reputation of recognized distinction as an appellate lawyer. Academy membership is by invitation only and limited to 500 members in the United States. For more information please click on the link below.

American Academy of Appellate Lawyers

December 2009

Team Kenyon Yeates ran to an impressive 14th place finish, in a field of 74 corporate co-ed teams, in the California International Marathon Relay Challenge on Sunday December 6. Partners Charity Kenyon and Bill Yeates, along with interns Elizabeth Tedsen and Jacob Croegaert finished with an outstanding time of 3:48:56. Click on the link below to view the full results.

2009 CIM RESULTS - RELAY TEAMS

November 2009

Charity Kenyon, and her husband Mike Eaton, are profiled in the Fall 2009 edition of Edible Sacramento. To read the article click on the link below:

Two Peas in a Pod by Anna Martin Rolke

(Photo provided courtesy of Daren Cliff)

November 8, 2009

Elizabeth Tedsen, Kenyon Yeates former intern, ran to a first place finish in the women's category, and fifth overall, at the Clarksburgh Country Run. Elizabeth completed the half-marathon race in 1:22:53. Way to go Elizabeth!

To our clients, colleagues, and friends, it is with regret, but also admiration, that we inform you that Jason Flanders has taken the staff attorney position with San Francisco Baykeeper effective November 2... read more

September 22, 2009 
Bill Yeates has been notified that he was selected by the Planning and Conservation League to receive the Carla Bard Award for Individual Achievement. Bill will be presented with the award at PCL’s Annual Environmental Legislative Symposium, which will be held on January 30, 2010. To read the notification of award letter please click here:

Bill's Award Letter

September 2009 
Charity Kenyon was profiled in Sacramento Women Lawyers' September 2009 newsletter. Please click on the link below to read the article.

Profile of Charity Kenyon - Successful Lawyer, Mentor, and Community Activist

September 25, 2009

Law Seminars International has invited Bill Yeates to participate as a panelist at their Fifth Annual Comprehensive Workshop in Santa Monica on the California Environmental Quality Act. Bill's panel will be discussing SB 375's goals and role in implementing  AB 32, planning organizations and their "Sustainable Communities Strategies", Regional Targets Advisory Committee's report to the CARB, and how that process interacts with CEQA assessments. To find out more information on this upcoming workshop visit Law Seminar International's website at www.lawseminars.com.

July 2009

Bill Yeates and Charity Kenyon have both been selected by their peers as 2009 "Super Lawyers," representing the top 5% of practitioners in Northern California.

http://www.superlawyers.com/search?q=yeates&pa=&l=california-northern

In addition, Charity was named one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers (for the third time) and one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers (for the sixth year in a row).

July 11, 2009

Kenyon Yeates LLP sponsored and Charity Kenyon Co-chaired Slow Food Sacramento's Urban AG Fest 2009 Common Table. The event benefitted the Hunger Coalition and the Sacramento Area Community Garden Coalition. Participants enjoyed workshops, movies, a sit-down gourment dinner prepared by Magpie Caterers, a live auction conducted by KXTV's Dana Howard, informational tables, and book sales by Avid Reader. please visit their website at www.slowfoodsacramento.com.

July 1, 2009

Protecting the threatened and endangered Coho salmon in California with a victory in San Francisco County Superior Court, Kenyon Yeates has helped California Trout, Inc. overturn regulations passed by the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, and the California Department of Fish and Game, that “facilitated” the killing of the severely imperiled Coho salmon.  Kenyon Yeates has worked continuously with California Trout over the years, first in helping to lead a coalition of nonprofit organizations to have the Coho salmon placed on California’s list of threatened and endangered species, then to successfully defend that listing in the Third District Court of Appeal.  With our latest victory, the Coho salmon are one step closer to getting new, more protective regulations, to encourage the recovery of the species to sustainable levels.

May 2, 2009

Bill Yeates was honored by the Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club with a special award for outstanding legal representation at their 2009 Chapter Awards Banquet. For more than a decade Bill has represented the Sierra Club's Mother Lode Chapter in challenging harmful development projects.

December 15, 2008

On Sunday December 7, 2008, at the California International Marathon Kenyon Yeates’ clerk Elizabeth Tedsen ran a sub-three hour marathon and qualified for the Boston Marathon in April 2009. Kenyon Yeates Partner Bill Yeates rolled in at 4:48, completing his 2-year Quixotic odyssey to finish a marathon before his 60th birthday.

On September 30, 2008, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 375 (Steinberg) into law. Bill Yeates (back row, third from right), representing a key stakeholder, participated in negotiations with other stakeholder groups and Senator Daniel Steinberg to forge an agreement on this bill. SB 375 focuses on regional transportation planning process, called “blueprints,” to discourage suburban sprawl in order to reduce vehicle miles traveled per household, fossil fuel consumption, and greenhouse gas generation, while conserving farmlands and wildlife habitat. This legislation is vitally important to the State of California so the state can meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels since autos and light trucks generate a significant portion of the greenhouse gases generated in California. SB 375 was endorsed by diverse coalition of interest groups, including environmentalists, home builders, local governments, and affordable housing advocates. SB 375 was sponsored by the California League of Conservation Voters and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

December 11, 2008

Christina Morkner Brown, one of the top graduates of Pacific McGeorge's class of 2008 and former extern to Hon. Ronald Robie, Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District, joined Kenyon Yeates LLP on September 1, 2008. Christina was sworn in and admittted to the California courts and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District, on December 2, 2008.

Bill Yeates and Charity Kenyon have both been selected by their peers as 2008 "Super Lawyers," representing the top 5% of practitioners in Northern California.

http://www.superlawyers.com/search?q=yeates&pa=&l=california-northern

In addition, Charity was named one of the Top 100 Lawyers (for the second time) and one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers (for the fifth year in a row).

The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers has elected Charity Kenyon as its President for 2008-09. Founded in 1972, the Academy is the oldest lawyers' organization in the country dedicated solely to the practice of appellate law. The Academy plays an active role in the courts, appearing as amicus in cases that involve important issues of appellate practice. Its membership is limited to California lawyers with very substantial experience in the appellate courts, who are elected to membership only after rigorous scrutiny of their skill in appellate practice. There are approximately 100 active members. Learn more about the Academy at http://www.calappellate.org/.

Over the last several months, Bill Yeates has traveled to Santa Clarita, Monterey, Merced, and Diamond Bar conducting CEQA Workshops that are sponsored by the Planning and Conservation League. The workshops are based on Bill's Community Guide to CEQA. For more information regarding CEQA workshops please visit PCL's website at www.pcl.org.

Kenyon Yeates has hired Elizabeth Tedsen as their summer intern. Elizabeth just completed her first year of law school at the Davis School of Law.

See Charity Kenyon’s profile on receipt of the American Inns of Court 2007 Professionalism Award, Ninth Circuit published in the March April 2008 issue of “The Bencher.” Reprinted with permission of the American Inns of Court... read.

See Bill Yeates' interview by Joe Marman, a contributor to The Litigator, a Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association publication. The interview appeared in Marman's "Pillah" Talk column in the Fall 2007 issue...read.

First Appellate District Division 2 affirms authority of Department of Fish and Game and Resources Agency to enter into MOU with the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation to fund the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative.

In a published decision the Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of the San Francisco Superior Court. Kenyon Yeates represented the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation.

You can read the court's published opinion here:

Coastside Fishing Club, et al. v. California Resources Agency, et al.

KenyonYeates Prevails on behalf of two separate Tuolumne County Citizen Groups

Representing Tuolumne County Citizens for Responsible Growth, Inc. and Neighbors in Support of Appropriate Land Use in two separate actions before the California Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District, KenyonYeates successfully reversed the trial court’s decision in one case, and affirmed the judgment in the other, resulting in the establishment of important precedents under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) and State Planning and Zoning Law…read more.

You can read the court's published opinions here:

Tuolumne County Citizens for Responsible Growth, Inc. v. City of Sonora, et al.

Kenyon Yeates prevails on behalf of coho salmon in California Court of Appeal

Representing California Trout, Inc. and a coalition of environmental organizations, KenyonYeates has helped defend the California Fish and Game Commission’s listing of coho salmon as threatened and endangered under the California Endangered Species Act (“CESA”).  On November 20, 2007, the Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District filed its opinion rejecting all of the attacks brought against this listing.  .... read more

 You can read the court’s published opinion here: Opinion