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There are many decisions to make when preparing for your future. Lauren N. Peebles is an attorney who takes the time to help you evaluate each and every one of your options and more importantly, helps you understand the legal significance of your choices. Lauren has helped countless clients avoid the expense and delay of probate by drafting client-centered legal documents that protect and leave a legacy. Whether it is drafting wills, trusts, powers of attorney, or medical directives, Lauren is knowledgeable, experienced, and patient.. In addition to estate planning, Lauren N. Peebles is a passionate professional committed to representing executors and administrators in probate. The probate process has earned a reputation of being slow and expensive. Lauren’s approach minimizes extraordinary delays and unnecessary expenses. Lauren has a team of professionals available to assist with property sales, tax preparation, appraisal services, and accounting work.. Lauren was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2012 after obtaining her law degree from the University of Oregon School of Law. Prior to law school, Lauren earned her B.A. from the UC Berkeley. During law school, Lauren clerked for the Honorable Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.. Lauren has a diverse legal resume including asbestos litigation, landlord-tenant law, personal injury, criminal defense, and civil litigation. However, it was not until she was appointed as successor trustee of her late grandmother’s estate that Lauren dedicated herself to Estate Planning and Probate. Lauren received the BWOPA/TILE HerStory Empowers Award for Economic Empowerment in 2016 and the Lawyers of Distinction award for Estate Planning (an award reserved for the top 10% of attorneys in the U.S.) in 2017.. Lauren is admitted to practice law before all courts of the State of California. She is a member of the California State Bar Trusts & Estates Section, the California Association of Black Lawyers, Black Women Lawyers of Northern California, and the East Bay Trusts & Estate Lawyers. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Alameda County Bar Association’s (ACBA) Trust & Estate Section as well as ACBA’s Barristers Section. Lauren is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®.

The firm's focus is on effective representation, both civil and criminal. The firm's lead attorney, Gordon M. Fauth, Jr., has considerable experience in litigation of all kinds, including business litigation, civil rights, consumer litigation and class-action litigation, and has successfully litigated many actions in which multi-million dollar results were achieved.. Contrary to the usual pattern, I started out doing complex litigation, including class actions.  Only later did I start doing personal injury and criminal defense.  I guess I like representing individuals who are actually involved in their cases, who need help.  I got into DUI defense after a DA friend of mine remarked that DUI is one of the areas of criminal law that can be the most interesting, given the technical complexity that has come to attend what is otherwise usually a simple misdemeanor.  I decided he was right.

Patricia Scott Law, APLC was founded out of attorney Patricia Scott's personal experience with loss. After losing multiple family members and friends shortly after graduating from law school, Patricia decided to use her personal experience of grief, coupled with her legal background in trusts and estates, to bring compassion and advocacy to those dealing with legal issues as a result of death, and to minimize conflict through thorough legal planning.. Located in the center of Alameda across the street from City Hall and steps away from the historic Park Street shopping district, Patricia Scott Law is a boutique law firm focused in the Trusts and Estates practice area. We bring to the Alameda and surrounding community decades of experience in estate planning, probate, trust administration, conservatorships, dispute resolution, and estate and trust litigation. Each case we handle has a unique set of facts and circumstances. Our approach is client-centered and comprehensive.  Our efforts are directed towards following every avenue possible to achieve our clients' goals. We bring creativity and tenacity in seeking the best possible outcome for our clients, no matter what the situation.. Our attorneys have combined experience of over 30 years, and started during the .com internet boom of the late 90s. We’re on the pulse of modern technology and media, and have monitored their evolution to inform our own legal approaches—all to give you exceptional advice that will last for years to come.

Ms. Madueña is an expert immigration lawyer in the Bay Area handling a wide range of immigration matters, including complex cases with criminal issues. She has successfully argued for the release of clients in immigration detention, and has obtained Adjustment of Status, Asylum, Cancellation of Removal, and NACARA for her clients against the government in Immigration Court. Ms. Madueña has also obtained Lawful Permanent Residency, Asylum, Naturalization, NACARA, and Waivers before the immigration office. Notably, when she was a first-year associate, Ms. Madueña presented a complex criminal and immigration oral argument to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and received a published decision in that case (Gil v. Holder, 651 F.3d 1000 (9th Cir. 2011)). She is also a Certified Legal Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law with the California State Bar, which requires lawyers to pass a written examination, demonstrate a high level of experience, fulfill ongoing educational requirements, and provide favorable recommendations from judges and attorneys familiar with their work.

Michael Notaro is dedicated to you - the client - first and foremost. He follows the golden rule and treats each client as he himself would want to be treated if the roles were reversed.  Phone calls are promptly returned and clients receive cost conscious and results-oriented legal advice.  Michael treats each client as a person, not a case file number.  He charges fees for legal work, not photocopies or faxes, and does his best to accommodate your needs.. Michael enjoys building personal relationships with his clients and developing a deep understanding of their needs, thereby enabling him to effectively serve and advise them over time. Michael’s real estate and entrepreneurial background broadens and complements his approach to legal issues.. Michael focuses on achieving client objectives as quickly as possible. By leveraging today’s technology, he delivers sophisticated legal representation in a cost-effective manner. A serious and dedicated advocate for his clients, Michael also maintains a professional and courteous demeanor towards opposing parties and their counsel in order to achieve a successful resolution to his clients’ cases.. Michael provides counsel to a broad-based real estate clientele, ranging from the single property owner to national developers, REITS and Fortune 1000 companies. He counsels clients on all aspects of real estate ownership, including acquisition, land use, entitlement, development, leasing, operation, financing and disposition. Whatever your real estate needs, you have a partner to assist with legal matters. Michael’s goal is to make your real estate investments a success.

Jillian Blanchard is the managing partner of Rudder Law Group and focuses her practice on federal, state and local environmental laws, land use, natural resource permitting and public agency management.. Jillian specializes in managing the environmental review and permitting processes for complex infrastructure, utility, development and redevelopment projects. Jillian has worked with private and public entities to guide development projects through the entitlement process, with a particular focus on federal and state resource agency permitting and the environmental review process.. Jillian has a specialized expertise in representing clients before a variety of state and federal regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA Fisheries, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the State Water Quality Control Board and Regional Water Quality Control Boards, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the California Coastal Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission and has spent her career building strong relationships with these regulators. In addition, Jillian has represented clients at the local level to manage the environmental review process and to negotiate and draft a myriad of agreements between local municipalities and third parties, including complex settlement agreements, development agreements, option and purchase and sale agreements, memorandums of understanding/agreement, leases and other transactional documents.. When she is not assisting clients, Jillian enjoys a wide variety of outside interests, including rock climbing, SCUBA diving, hiking, running and sailing. In 2002, Jillian and her husband sailed their 35-foot steel cutter-rigged sailboat across the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand, visiting as many intriguing South Pacific islands as possible along the way.

Individualized attention, reasonable rates and flexibility are just a few of the many accommodations Keiser Family Law & Mediation offers. I provide family law mediation, as well as a full range of other legal services to individuals with various family law needs in Alameda and most other Bay Area counties.. I offer mediation services in cases involving divorce, custody disputes, child and spousal support, and property division. I also continue to handle individual representation and consulting services in family law cases as well. So, whether you’re looking to mediate a resolution in your divorce, or you’re looking for representation in a family law case, or you want a family law attorney to consult with, I will guide you through the process with a special eye toward getting you through to the other side with as little trauma as possible.. I offer a range of options, from mediation, to full-service representation with attention to every detail, limited scope representation for assistance with specific issues in your case, and unbundled services where you choose the specific services needed, such as preparing a premarital agreement, drafting a Marital Settlement Agreement or preparing and filing judicial council forms to finalize your divorce.. Email me at to schedule an initial one-hour consultation for only $100, and together we can determine how to best handle your family law issues.

I handle high profile, high asset, and complex family law matters, litigation and family law appeals. I also have extensive experience representing children with special needs in special education cases which provides me with the specialized knowledge of the common concerns and issues divorcing parents face when they have children with special needs.. I teach classes on trial techniques and strategy at Stanford Law School, and to fellow attorneys and am an active member of the California Conference of Delegates, the legislative arm of the California Bar Association. I am a regular high school and law school mock trial judge.