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Michael D. Larsen
Santa Rosa, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder, International and Tax
University of Chicago
I have always been interested in European history and languages. I lived in France for four years before returning to the Bay Area to set up my law practice. I often work with people in the Bay Area who have family or assets in France.
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David J. Collier
Santa Rosa, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 14 years of experience
(707) 636-4806
3558 Round Barn Blvd #200
Suite 200
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Estate Planning and Probate
David wants to help his clients solve their legal issues in the areas of wills, trusts, and probate through application of his title insurance, escrow, trust accounting, and mathematics background. David was born and raised in Yreka, a rural town near Oregon. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a double major in Mathematics and History and from UC Santa Barbara with a Master’s Degree in Mathematics. After teaching math for a few years, David returned to his hometown to take over his family’s title insurance and escrow business, which David owned and managed for 18 years. David studied...
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Len Randall ReidReynoso
Galt, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Estate Planning, Bankruptcy, Business and Probate
UC Davis School of Law King Hall
Through my office, I have been able to practice law in a manner that best serves my clients. Being a lawyer is being able to serve people. I am in a service industry. I must be honest with my clients. This means that I will tell clients what I believe is in their best interest, regardless of my financial interest or personal bias. I do believe that people should stay out of court, if possible. Court is expensive, time consuming, and emotionally draining for clients. It is easier to fix problems prior...
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Quinton J. Miller
Elk Grove, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Probate
Oak Brook COL & Gov't Policy
Based in Elk Grove, California, the Law Offices of Quinton J. Miller has been serving the Sacramento region since 2006. We help clients prepare for the future and put the past to rest. Our office counsels individuals, couples, and businesses based on years of experience drafting, administering, and when necessary litigating trusts and wills.
Quinton Miller began practicing law in 2006, after receiving his Juris Doctorate degree from Oak Brook College of Law. A job offer from a classmate led him to Elk Grove, and he opened a general practice in the Elk Grove area with a...
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William Kopper
Davis, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 45 years of experience
Estate Planning, Arbitration & Mediation, Elder and Tax
University of California, Davis
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Cecilia Tsang
Sacramento, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Estate Planning
University of California - Davis
Co-Founder/Partner and practicing Estate Planning Attorney of Family Wealth Law Group, a Sacramento based law firm which practices exclusively in the areas of Estate Planning and Estate Planning.
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Mark Koo
San Francisco, CA Estate Planning Lawyer
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Family
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Mark T. Koo’s work includes Corporate Compliance and Governance, Estate Planning, Family Law, Non-Profit Formation and setting up the 501c3 Non-profit designation. Mark also helps companies file incorporation as well as other corporate legal assistance.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Mark T. Koo has been involved with Silicon Valley’s technologies such as data warehousing, wireless software and hardware technologies, and internet technologies.
Mark is a graduate of McGeorge Law School and is a member of the California Bar.
Mark received his bachelors of science degree in electrical engineering and masters of science degree in materials science from University of California,...
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Barbara Sonin
Woodland, CA Estate Planning Attorney
Estate Planning, Elder and Probate
Having come to law as a second career, I bring a broad perspective to client needs. I am honored to work with a wide range of single people and families to create estate plans that will achieve the goals that are important to them, and do everything possible to avoid the problems they are concerned about.
Whether you want to craft a plan that will avoid fighting among a blended family, protect your disabled child with a special needs trust, or pass your assets to your favorite charities, we will work together to plan and implement your ideal estate plan.
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Heather Roderick Chubb
Folsom, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder and Probate
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
At the Chubb Law Firm we help modern families create customized modern estate plans. We’re passionate about our work and know how important it is to develop and implement a plan that takes care of you and your loved ones at all stages of your life. In addition to "traditional" probate avoidance trust planning, we focus our practice on the unique planning needs of persons with disabilities (beyond the Special Needs Trust) as well as helping families navigate the difficult and overwhelming emotional, familial, medical and legal realities of aging (including planning to access Medi-Cal and Veterans Administration...
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Kelsey Hunter
Folsom, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, DUI & DWI and Personal Injury
CAL Northern SOL
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Peter Robert Stone
Citrus Heights, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Personal Injury
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
Peter Wills and Trusts and Estate Planning, TRUSTS ARE FORLOVERS tm. Peter Stone is Admitted before the Bar of the Supreme Court of California, Colorado (senior inactive), The Eastern, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California, the Ninth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. A graduate of Univ. of California Santa Barbara and Univ. Of Pacific McGeorge School of Law.
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Simran S. Randhawa
Roseville, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 9 years of experience
Estate Planning, Business and Immigration
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
I graduated from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in May of 2015 and recieved my license to practice law in California in December of 2015. I completed my undergraduate studies in Managerial Economics at UC Davis. I am currently a managing partner of Randhawa | Hundal LLP. Our firm is located in Roseville, CA and we offer representation in the following areas: estate planning, tax, business, bankruptcy, immigration, and more. Please visit our website to learn more: http://www.randhawahundal.com
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Matthew Scott Crider
Roseville, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Estate Planning, Business, Divorce and Elder
South Texas College of Law
Matthew Crider formed Crider Law Group so he could help individuals and business owners by providing creative solutions and be their trusted advisor and legal counselor. Matthew provides services in the areas of estate planning, family law, and business advisory services. Matthew’s estate planning practice focuses on personalized estate planning and administration for individuals, couples and families, and includes wills, revocable living trusts, family business entity planning, and co-tenancy arrangements. His family law practice focuses on assisting families in a dissolution matters, including divorce, child custody and visitation, child and spousal support, and parental rights. ...
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Kent Wyatt Meyer
Roseville, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 40 years of experience
Estate Planning, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Tax
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
Kent W. Meyer, MBA, PhD, JD, LLM, CIArb
Dr. Meyer began his career as an Air Force Intelligence Collection Officer and served in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, and Korea. He also served as a Missile Combat Crew Commander. He has had more than thirty years experience as a legal practitioner and educator. He has served as the Chief Financial Officer for biotech and software companies, as a partner in a large international law firm and as an owner of his own legal practice. He has extensive domestic and international experience in business and tax planning, mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations,...
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Katia Colaprico
Rocklin, CA Estate Planning Attorney
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Business, Probate and Real Estate
Northwestern California University School of Law
Attorney Katia Colaprico was born in Moscow, Russia, grew up in New York City and lived in London prior to focusing on her legal career.
She attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce with concentrations in Entrepreneurship and International Business
Before attending law school, Katia began her career in the finance sector, working in asset management and investment banking. She also created, owned, and operated four e-commerce stores and has over 15 years of start-up and small business experience.
Katia graduated from Northwestern California University School of Law and is licensed to practice law in the...
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Brigit S. Barnes
Loomis, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 40 years of experience
3262 Penryn Rd.
Suite 200
Loomis, CA 95650
Estate Planning, Environmental and Real Estate
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Brigit S. Barnes is the owner and principal of Brigit S. Barnes & Associates, Inc. Mrs. Barnes graduated cum laude from the University of Santa Clara in 1973 and obtained her J.D. with distinction from McGeorge School of Law in 1985. Mrs. Barnes is a recipient of the American Jurisprudence Agency, Business Associations and Contract Awards, and the Corpus Juris Secundum Legal Scholarship Award. Mrs. Barnes is a member of the Sacramento County Bar Association – Real Property Section, the State Bar of California, California Business Properties Association – Legislative Committee, and Sacramento Commercial Women in Real Estate –...
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Beau Mayfield
Penn Valley, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Business, Personal Injury and Probate
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Beau Mayfield has been providing his clients with efficient and practical legal advice since 2010. Beau believes in three pillars of practicing law; ethical advice, practical legal counsel, and passionate advocacy. At the Law Office of Beau Mayfield, clients can rest assured that Attorney Beau Mayfield will provide sound legal advice in an efficient manner. Call today for a free consultation.
Mr. Mayfield began his career as a judicial law clerk in the First Circuit-State of Hawai'i for the Honorable Judge Rhonda A. Nishimura and Honorable Judge Edward H. Kubo Jr. Mr. Mayfield participated as a law clerk in over...
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Kim White
Grass Valley, CA Estate Planning Lawyer
Free ConsultationEstate Planning and Animal
NWCU School of Law
Early in my law career, I realized the importance of Estate Planning and how crucial it is to have a plan in place for the unknown. The Law Office of Kim White offers Estate Planning that is personal to each client. No one person's situation is the same as another's. Therefore each Estate Plan is tailored to each person and their unique situation. I do Wills, Trusts, Third Party Special Needs Trusts, Trust Amendments, Will Codicils, Consulting, Probate, Trust Administration, Advanced Healthcare Directive and Durable Power of Attorneys. In addition my office offers services that deal with areas of law...
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Neil Alan Harris
Chico, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder and Probate
UC Hastings COL
Neil A. Harris is the senior partner of the Center and is recognized as an expert in long term care and Medi-Cal planning throughout California. Mr. Harris has practiced Elder Law for over 25 years and is one of less than 100 attorneys in California certified as an Elder Law Attorney by the Elder Law Foundation. He is among an even smaller group of attorneys in the country to be named as an Elder Law Fellow by the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). He is recognized as an outstanding Elder Law Attorney by his peers in both Martindale...
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Jonathon Maddox
Redding, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 4 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Business, Employment and IP
Oak Brook College of Law
Mr. Maddox is a Corporate Attorney who handles anything from business formation, contracts, trademarking, licensing, and employment matters. As the founder of Maddox Law, P.C., Jonathon strives to take care of his clients and puts integrity above all else.
Mr. Maddox graduated from Oak Brook College of Law in 2017 and is licensed in California. Prior to law school, Jonathon was an experienced entrepreneur and managed several businesses internationally as well as in the States. He has a heart for nonprofits and has served on various Boards for the past 12 years, as well as handled...
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Daniel John Morse
Westlake Village, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Business and Entertainment & Sports
Pepperdine Univ School of Law
Daniel J. Morse represents creative artists from his offices in the Los Angeles area. Mr. Morse excelled in his studies of contracts, intellectual property, and entertainment law at the Pepperdine University School of Law. After graduating in 2001, Mr. Morse worked as a civil litigator while assisting various visual artist clients. Upon moving to Tennessee, Mr. Morse worked with the firm of Wise & Reeves, representing a variety of individuals and business with transactional and litigation matters. Mr. Morse also represented musicians and literary authors. With licenses to practice in two of America's...
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Paul M. LaMartina
San Francisco, CA Estate Planning Lawyer
Estate Planning, Business, Probate and Tax
University of Miami School of Law and Santa Clara University School of Law
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Angela Petrusha
Eureka, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 10 years of experience
(707) 798-6030
2826 E Street
btwn Henderson & Grotto Streets
Eureka, CA 95501
Estate Planning and Probate
Northwestern California University School of Law
As a parent, spouse, child from a blended family, and a family business owner, my background gives me perspective on what many of my clients' concerns are. I've also experienced the loss of a loved one who had no estate plan in place, and the added stress and confusion that caused. These and other events in my life have given me the compassion and motivation to help others through the estate planning process. I provide answers and information in a caring and straightforward manner, making sure you are comfortable with the process. After graduating from law school, I passed...
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Robert Joseph Mintz
San Francisco, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 46 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning
Boston University School of Law and Univ of San Diego School of Law
We are a law firm with offices in San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area. Our practice is focused on providing sophisticated asset protection legal services for clients throughout the country. When helpful, we can arrange personal meetings with our clients in Los Angeles and most areas in California.
We structure our clients personal and business holdings to protect against risk of loss from sources of potential liability. This structuring is based upon the correct choice of business entity and the proper asset protection strategies for holding investment assets and accumulated wealth. Our expertise is in both...
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Stephen William Erickson
Santa Barbara, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 31 years of experience
Estate Planning, Business, Employment and Real Estate
UC Hastings COL
Mr. Erickson's practice areas include business and commercial contract negotiations, entity formations and transactions, real estate acquisitions, sales, construction, land use planning and development, estate planning, employment law and internet law. Mr. Erickson serves domestic and international clients with respect to their interests throughout California. He enjoys long lasting relationships with many of his clients.
Mr. Erickson has developed a unique expertise in representing buyers and sellers of large estates, and advising on all aspects of the construction and management of such estates. A career accomplishment was partnering with an insurance underwriter to develop a unique course-of-construction insurance policy for large...
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Hannah Sargent
Castro Valley, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Estate Planning, Elder and Probate
University of California - Berkeley and Georgetown University Law Center
Hannah Sargent received her undergraduate degree from University of California Los Angeles and graduated from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. While in school, she spent time clerking for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Jose. She is a former military officer, company commander, two-time Iraq war veteran and decorated AH-64D Apache Helicopter pilot. She is currently the principal attorney at Sargent Law Office, where she practices litigation, business and commercial law, and estate planning, and she lives in Castro Valley with her family. Between her time working and being with her family, she enjoys...
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Brad Sniderman
Westlake Village, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 29 years of experience
705 Lakefield Rd.
Suite I
Westlake Village, CA 91361
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Business, IP and Probate
Whittier Law School
I am an attorney practicing in intellectual property (trademarks, copyrights, licensing), as well as business and e-commerce law. This includes entity formation and dissolutions, contract drafting and other day to day events, as well as web site review for privacy and compliance issues) for individuals to small/medium size companies. I am also an estate planner, drafting Wills, Trusts and Power of Attorney documents, as well as work in probate matters.
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Roya Dehghani
Westlake Village, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 14 years of experience
(805) 267-1837
3717 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd.
Suite 266
Westlake Village, CA 91362
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Elder and Probate
University of West Los Angeles
My Office is based in Westlake Village and I am available to clients in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura Counties. My practice is concentrated in the areas of Trusts, Wills, Special Needs Trusts, Advance Health Care Directives, Financial Powers of Attorney, Trust Administration, and Probate. With 10 years of experience in this area of the law, I am highly qualified, helpful, and knowledgeable. I am also highly trusted and respected in my field, by my clients and peers. I received my Juris Doctorate degree from University of West Los Angles, and my Bachelor Degree in...
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Tamara Lynn Harper
Westlake Village, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 30 years of experience
(805) 409-0530
141 Duesenberg Drive
Suite 7B
Westlake Village, CA 91362
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Business, IP and Trademarks
Ventura COL
Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Harper served as Director of Corporate Compliance and Commercial Leasing for Kinko’s Service Corporation, Inc., now FedEx. Early in her career she worked as in house corporate counsel to one of California’s largest labor staffing corporations and civilly prosecuted perpetrators of domestic violence through a DOJ grant protecting victims of domestic violence. She has argued cases before the United States Hague Court for matters of international child abduction; California Court of Appeals and Superior Court; District Court; Delaware Court of Chancery; and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeals...
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Marisha Charbonnet
Thousand Oaks, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 19 years of experience
(805) 496-4681
223 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. Suite 320
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Free ConsultationEstate Planning
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Victoria Herrick
Apple Valley, CA Estate Planning Attorney
Estate Planning
Abraham Lincoln University School of Law
Victoria Martin (formerly Victoria Herrick) is a licensed attorney practicing law in the State of California. She graduated with her J.D. from Abraham Lincoln University School of Law in Los Angeles, California. She works in the area of Estate Planning, offering advice regarding Living Trusts, Wills, and Powers of Attorney. Proper Estate Planning will ensure that your wishes are followed in the most tax-effective, cost-effective and efficient way possible.
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Michelle Castillo
Granada Hills, CA Estate Planning Attorney
Estate Planning and Probate
Michelle Castillo is a California Estate Planning Attorney. She is based out of Granada Hills, CA and her practice focuses on helping families plan for the future. She is a trusted Spanish speaking lawyer in Granada Hills serving people all throughout Los Angeles. Her areas of practice are in Estate Planning, Living Trusts, Wills, Health Care Directives, Power of Attorney, Guardianship Nominations, Trust Administration, Probate and Asset Protection.
Attorney Castillo also has over 15 years experience in Real Estate, Mortgages and Insurance. She is the wife of a United States Marine Veteran and mother of three young girls. She understands...
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Kirk Pearson Rodby
Simi Valley, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 18 years of experience
Estate Planning, Construction and Employment
Tulane Univ Law School and Tulane University School of Law
Kirk Rodby earned his Bachelor of Science degree from California State University at Northridge in 1995 and went on to graduate magna cum laude from Tulane Law School. In 2002, he received his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in constitutional law from the New York University School of Law.
A member of the California Bar Association since 2006, Kirk is part of our Construction, Labor & Employment and Estate Planning practices.
Kirk has a life-long love of books and writing, and comes to The Green Law Group after serving in management at Barnes & Noble. He is a contributing author...
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John Mark Andersen
Ventura, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 32 years of experience
Estate Planning, Probate and Tax
Hastings College of the Law
A recognized leader in the field, John Andersen is a partner at Ferguson Case Orr Paterson. A Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law by the California State Bar since 2008, John is also an Executive Committee Board Member of the Trusts and Estates Section of the California State Bar that advises the California legislature on laws effecting estate planning and a “Top Lawyer” Super Lawyer in Estate Planning and Probate.
John guides couples, families, individuals, entrepreneurs, business owners, and public figures of all means, in all aspects of estate planning, trusts and probate and creates a custom plan...
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Caitlin Rodriguez
Ventura, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 5 years of experience
Estate Planning and Family
California Western School of Law
Attorney Caitlin Rodriguez was born and raised in Ventura County and attended California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) where she obtained a Bachelors Degree, with honors, in History. After graduating from CSUCI, Ms. Rodriguez attended California Western School of Law in San Diego, CA. During her law school career, Ms. Rodriguez was a member of the Pro Bono Honor Society, and was awarded the Academic Achievement Scholarship and the Diversity Scholarship. In addition, she interned with the San Diego County Alternate Public Defender's Office, the Community Law Project (a San Diego based organization that provides free legal advice to low-income...
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Crista B. Hermance
Valencia, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 11 years of experience
Estate Planning and Probate
Southern California Institute of Law
I was born and raised in Ventura, California and lived here a majority of my life. I majored in business management at San Diego State University and soon there after started working for Citigroup in Jacksonville, Florida. I worked as a project manager for Citigroup and traveled extensively throughout the world. I even ended up relocating to the Philippines for a year which was an opportunity of a lifetime. After living in the Philippines, I moved back to Ventura and began my legal career.
I started by volunteering at the Ventura County District Attorney’s office and the Coalition to End Family...
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Larry Ray Laborde
Santa Barbara, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Collections, Divorce and Family
University of Iowa
I graduated from the University of Iowa in 1972. My first year out of law school, two friends from Perry and I opened a bar and music center in Iowa City called the C.O.D. Steam Laundry. After a year I moved to California where I traveled the West Coast as a craft vendor and follower of the Grateful Dead band. In 1990, I decided to settle down in Santa Barbara and joined the California State Bar, practicing family law. My interest in family law grew to the point where I wanted to become a specialist in family...
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Luis Esparza
Santa Barbara, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning, Bankruptcy, Business and Probate
Concord Law School and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
CA State Bar No. 229054 CA BRE No. 01394464 CA BSIS PSO No. 6905
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Philip Isaac Moncharsh
Santa Barbara, CA Estate Planning Lawyer with 51 years of experience
Estate Planning, Business, Personal Injury and Probate
Columbia Univ School of Law
Philip I. Moncharsh has been a litigation and trial lawyer since his admission to practice law in 1973. Mr. Moncharsh has successfully argued hundreds of cases to verdict in state and federal courts throughout California, and has also appeared before the California Supreme Court. Mr. Moncharsh's practice is focused on complex business and corporate disputes, insurance litigation and coverage issues, trust and estate litigation, real estate litigation, representation and counseling of public agencies and nonprofit organizations, personal injury, product liability, and professional negligence matters. He handles both civil trials and appeals.
Mr. Moncharsh serves as a court-appointed arbitrator for...
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Mr. Grant Steven Pederson
Westlake Village, CA Estate Planning Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationEstate Planning
Ventura College of Law
At Pederson law offices, the team is committed to providing Thousand Oaks residents with the legal representation they deserve. The firm consists of two lead attorneys, who have over 40 years of combined legal experience. Attorney Steve Pederson received his Juris Doctorate with high honors from Western State University School of Law in 1975. Before working as a lawyer, he worked as a Senior Design Engineer for General Dynamics Corporation, where he assisted in the design of numerous space vehicles. Mr. Steve Pederson then worked as an attorney in Los Angeles, where he handled civil litigation cases in the areas...