Kelly V. Beskin

Kelly Beskin is an attorney in Stoel Rives’ Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources group, with a focus on environmental and natural resources-related litigation and regulatory compliance counseling. She advises and advocates for clients across multiple industries, including natural resource production, commercial development, and manufacturing.

Before joining Stoel Rives, Kelly was a judicial extern to the Honorable Dennis M. Cota of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and a legal intern at the California Energy Commission, Chief Counsel’s Office.

Kelly leverages her background in science to provide effective solutions to complex client issues.

Education

University of California, Davis School of Law, J.D., 2021; Top 5%; Order of the Coif; UC Davis Law Review; Dean’s Merit Scholarship; King Hall Academic Excellence Scholarship

Texas A&M University, M.S., Entomology, 2016

University of Georgia, B.S., Environmental Sciences/Entomology, 2013

Admissions

California

Languages

Insights & Presentations

• Co-author, “EPA Designates PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances Under CERCLA,” Stoel Rives LLP, April 23, 2024
• “Prop 65 Updates: Chrome VI in leather, BPA in socks, new short form warning labels,” Footwear Distributors and Retailers Association (FDRA) Footwear Product Safety Digital Conference, April 7, 2022
• Co-author, “9th Circuit Ruling Halts Prop 65 Acrylamide Lawsuits, Again,” The Recorder, Law.com, March 31, 2022
• Co-author, Rural California Suffers a Painful Shortage of Lawyers (July 27, 2020). Daily Journal (California), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3677582
• Co-author, A Survey of Policy Responses to the Rural Attorney Shortage in the United States (May 24, 2021). Working Paper/Chapter for International Collection on Rural Access to Justice (Daniel Newman and Faith Gordon, eds., forthcoming, Hart Publishing 2022), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3830797

• Witkin Award Recipient (highest class grade) in Civil Procedure, Contracts, Torts, Constitutional Law I, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Evidence, Land Use Planning, and Public Lands Law

Professional

• Environmental Law Certificate
• Environmental Law Society, former Symposium Committee Co-Chair