Frank Van Konynenburg

Retired Partner
frank@macfern.com

221 Sansome Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA  94104
(415) 362-0449
914 Thirteenth Street
Modesto, CA  95354
(209) 521-8100

Since 1965, Frank has worked as an attorney and farmer in Modesto, Dixon and Calistoga. Not only has he worked in a general private practice, but in 1967 and 1968 he served as the Assistant City Attorney of Modesto.

SPECIAL INTERESTS/HOBBIES

Viticultural cultivar development and research.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

  • Agricultural Law
  • Bankruptcy Litigation
  • Producer Lien Rights
  • Real Property Law
  • Mechanics and Materialmen’s Liens
  • Estate Planning

EDUCATION

University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California, J.D. 1964

University of California, Davis, B.S. 1961, Major: Agricultural Production (Viticulture, Pomology, Plant Sciences) Agricultural Economics

PUBLISHED WORKS

A Home & A Price: 75 years of History with the California Peach Canning Association (Lafayette, CA: California Canning Peach Association, 1997)

PRO BONO ACTIVITIES

  • Allied Grape Growers, Board Member, 1970-1978
  • California Canning Peach Assn., Board Member, 1972-1988
  • California Canning Peach Assn., Vice-chairman, 1974-1982
  • California Freestone Peach Assn., Board Member, 1974-1978
  • Cling Peach Advisory Board, Board Member, 1974-1992
  • United Vintners, Board Member, 1975-1978
  • California Freestone Peach Assn., Chairman, 1976-1978
  • Diamond Walnut Growers, Assn., Board Alternate, 1978-1980
  • California Canning Peach Assn., Chairman, 1982-1988