About me
John Yeh has been practicing law in California since 1991. A California K-12 public school product and parent, he specializes in representing and advising school districts in charter school oversight, labor and employment, and litigation. He also has extensive experience in advising school boards and school districts on the Brown Act, conflicts of interest, and the California Public Records Act. He represents and advises other educational agencies, including California Joint Powers Authorities, on their legal obligations and various aspects of their operation.
John is one of the State’s most experienced advocates before trial courts, courts of appeal, and the California Supreme Court on charter school and school district matters.
In the area of charter school law, John has extensive experience advising school boards on the granting, denial, oversight, monitoring and revocation of charters. John has written widely on cutting-edge issues involving charter school law, including a definitive treatment of "Understanding Dependent Charters," "Charter Schools and Collective Bargaining: The Unholy Alliance," and “Charter Schools and Collective Bargaining, Implications for Authorizing Agencies,” (California Schools, Winter 2011), a work that was cited in the Hastings Law Journal (Chen, J. “California Charter School Teachers: Flexibility in the Classroom, Vulnerability as an Employee,” 67 Hastings L.J. 1733 (2016).) He has also written on "Land Use: The New Arena in the Struggle Between Independence and Accountability for Charter Schools."
John also practices in the areas of personnel and employment law, with a focus on school district labor relations and personnel, including discrimination claims before the DFEH/Civil Rights Division and EEOC. He has also compiled a successful record representing school districts in arbitration hearings and unfair practice claims before PERB. He also advises school districts and other educational institutions and public entities on contracting issues, student matters, retiree benefits and accreditation. John has also been certified as an Interest Based Bargaining trainer and speaks frequently before industry associations on charter school and school district personnel legal issues.