Legal Experience
Robin's legal career began in 1987 as an environmental coverage litigator in New York City where she practiced for several years. In search of a more balanced life, she moved to California in the early 1990s and joined a small law firm where she represented municipalities on a variety of issues including employment matters.

In the mid-1990s, Robin started her own law business. She has litigated cases involving a variety of business and commercial issues including contract, employment, commercial landlord-tenant and construction disputes as well as commercial torts (such as fraud). She drafts and revises contracts and provides advice on negotiation strategies. Her recent focus is on legal and policy issues in the renewable energy sector and especially with respect to the solar industry. Robin is licensed to practice law in the states of California and New York.

Mediation Experience
For several years, Robin served as a mediator, helping lawyers and their clients to resolve employment and business disputes. She also mediated real estate and insurance coverage disputes. During this time, she learned that many lawsuits, especially between businesses, would not have been filed if one side had responded to the other’s letter or email or picked up the phone and talked about the problem and how to address it. Almost always, the breakdown involved a loss of trust in what was once a cordial relationship.

Her mediation training has included: “Appellate Mediation Training”, California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District; “Mediating the Litigated Case” and “Advanced Mediation”, Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine Law School; and “Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution”, California Academy of Mediation Professionals. She is qualified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®.

Education, Other Work Experience
Robin grew up in Texas. After she graduated cum laude from Southern Methodist University in Dallas with a BA in political science and a BFA in journalism, she joined an international wire service as a broadcast news editor. Ms. Yeager worked as a senior editor for an advertising trade magazine in Dallas before attending law school at George Washington University in Washington DC.

Conferences - Solar, Energy Efficiency

• HUD Energy Efficiency Conference, June 2009, Orange, CA

• West Coast Energy Management Conference, June 2009, Long Beach, CA
• Solar Power International, October 2008, San Diego, CA
• ASES National Solar Conference, April 2008, San Diego, CA

Presentations
• “Beyond Orwell: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)–The Ultimate Surveillance Tool,” January 2006. Moderator. Expert panel discussed the threat to individual privacy rights presented by various surveillance technologies and models that could provide the basis for regulating the use of these technologies. Continuing legal education (CLE) program sponsored by the Individual Rights Section, L.A. County Bar Assn.

• “Methods for Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts,” Center for Collaborative Solutions, March 2005. Led an interactive workshop focused on dispute resolution in the K-12 public education sector.

• “9/11 Dialogues” - One of many lawyers who teamed up with L.A. County judges to lead high school students in an annual post-9/11 discussion designed to spark student interest in our Constitutional system.

• “Robes of Many Colors–Women Judges in L.A. County,” Southwest Oral History Assn. Annual Convention. Interviewed and photographed women judges for a pro bono project for the Women Lawyers Assn.’s Oral History Committee. Prepared narrative summaries of the interviews and presented the project to oral historians.

• Continuing Legal Education program, Women Lawyers Assn. of Los Angeles. Moderated two panels of women judges describing the challenges they confronted as women lawyers and judges and how they addressed them.

Professional activities
• Los Angeles County Bar Assn. (LACBA), Board of Trustees (2007-10), Individual Rights Section (Chair, 2006-09, Vice Chair 2005-06)
• Beverly Hills Bar Assn. (BHBA), Chair, BHBA Delegation to Conference of Bar Delegates (2007); Vice Chair, Legislative Committee (2007-08); Resolutions Committee (2005-present, Chair, 2006-07)
• Judge and mediator for law students competing in the national finals of the American Bar Association’s “Representation in Mediation” competition (2005)
• Second Appellate District, Alternative Dispute Resolution panel (2005)
• Los Angeles Superior Court, Alternative Dispute Resolution panel (2000-05)
• Southern California Mediation Assn. (2001-06)
• State Bar of California (1993-present); State Bar of New York (1987-present)

Continuing Education
Robin attends various continuing legal education courses. She also has participated in workshops on Power Purchase Agreements, Energy Efficiency, Solar Electricity and Solar Hot Water.

Interests
Fine art photography, tennis, white-water rafting, contemporary fiction and civil political discourse.

TEL 310 374 0468       consult_ry@robinyeager.com