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David E. Brule, the Senior partner of the firm, graduated San Diego State University with a degree in Economics. He received his Juris Doctor degree in 1968 from California College of Law. He has been actively practicing law in the Bay Area for over 30 years. During his career he has held various governmental positions with the IRS and Treasury Department. Mr. Brule spent five years as a Tax Attorney for the IRS in San Francisco. He was a General Attorney (tax matters) for the United States Treasury Department when he was assigned to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He was promoted within that agency to Regional Counsel for the Western United States. During this time he was appointed as Special Assistant United States Attorney to prosecute sensitive cases. He was also assigned to Washington D.C. as Acting Deputy Chief Counsel for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for a period. He ultimately rose to the position of Assistant Chief Counsel for that agency. In private practice he has held positions as General Counsel and Special Counsel for both public and private companies in technology and service industries. His background gives him a broad area of expertise in dealing with both estate planning and business development issues. Because of his tax and governmental experience, as well as his involvement with the operations, sales of mergers of businesses of all sizes, he has a significant advantage in dealing with governmental agencies thatregulate business. This experience is also valuable in developing estate and business planning vehicles such as Corporations, LLC’s, trusts and offshore entities.

Daniel T. Quane manages Doyle Quane's Family Trusts and Estates practice. Dan is a Certified Legal Specialist in Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate Law.. He has advanced legal degrees in Taxation (LL.M.) and Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law (LL.M.) and he was named Super Lawyer’s Rising Star in 2015 and 2016 and Super Lawyer in 2021, 2022, and 2023.. He works with a diverse range of clients, from those of average means to wealthy families requiring complex advanced estate tax planning strategies.. Dan has experience guiding families through the complex legal process required upon death in the most efficient manner possible, whether it’s through trust administration or the probate court process. He also enjoys the often unique task of working with blended families through the use of marital agreements in conjunction with estate planning in order to ensure that both parties’ children are treated as intended.. Dan is married with two young sons. He’s an avid sports enthusiast and huge supporter of the Golden State Warriors. He also enjoys the great outdoors and spending time with friends and family.. Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate, Trust Administration, Marital (Prenuptial and Postnuptial) Agreements, Business Entity Formation. Attorney License: California. Undergraduate Degree: University of California, Davis, B.A.. Law Degree: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, J.D. with distinction. Advanced Law Degree: Golden Gate University, LL.M. in Taxation with honors and LL.M. in Estate Planning with Honors. Academic Achievements: Traynor Honor Society Order of the Coif. Externship: U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Judge Christopher M. Klein. Professional Memberships: California State Bar Association Contra Costa Bar Association California Bar – Trusts & Estates Section East Bay Trusts & Estates Lawyers. Hometown: Danville, CA

Anthony H. Monioudis, a member of our Danville office since 1991, focuses his practice on immigration and civil litigation matters with a desire to help his clients on a very personal level. He is a member of both the Labor & Employment and Litigations sections of the firm.. Anthony regularly counsels and assists both businesses and individuals with a variety of issues involving immigration law, including appropriate non-immigrant (temporary) work visas for investors, specialty workers, intra-company transfers and visas related to business visitors, college/university students and others.. He also guides clients through the interview and visa procurement process, secures work authorization for spouses when allowed, and assists with customs issues relating to transport of personal or company property.. For permanent visas, Anthony works with both businesses and individuals on issues related to EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, EB-4 and EB-5 documentation and, among many other issues, Permanent Resident Card issues and renewals. Anthony also helps permanent residents who desire to become naturalized U.S. citizens.. Anthony regularly counsels employers on I-9 compliance (valid employment eligibility) and the serious consequences of noncompliance. He’s also available for workplace audits.. As a litigator, Anthony has been involved in numerous jury and non-jury trials (both state and federal court), almost all as lead or sole counsel with a high percentage of successful results. He handles cases that range from simple and complicated motor vehicle and trucking accidents, slip and falls, commercial transactions, business issues, intentional torts, food poisonings, and declaratory judgment actions. Anthony is also well-versed in mediation tactics and is involved with administrative law appeals in immigration law.. Twice Anthony was instrumental in establishing new law in Virginia – once introducing the concept of the teaching expert as part of the scope of permissible expert testimony and another involving the rights of minority shareholders and restrictive covenants. He has been honored to be listed among Virginia’s best lawyers in a variety of publications.. Upon graduating from the University of Virginia with a degree in history, Anthony attended the University of Georgia, graduating cum laude. After four years with the law firm of Landrum & Shouse in Lexington, Ky., Anthony returned in 1991 to his native Virginia and joined Woods Rogers.. Anthony is currently on the boards of the Danville Speech and Hearing Center, Danville Sports Club, Mount Hermon Place Homeowners Association and the Parish Council of St. Peter’s Greek Orthodox Church where he is the current treasurer and a former president. Anthony has served in leadership positions and/or board of other organizations in the past, including service as the President of the Danville Bar Association.

After forty years litigating in California and the U.K., Malcolm Sher transitioned to full time mediation. He specializes in mediating high emotion and cross-cultural disputes, including real property,  commercial and residential landlord-tenant, (including "habitability") business, contract, employment, (including wage-and-hour,) partnership, trust/estate, elder abuse, professional liability, (brokers, lawyers and CPAs), insurance cases as well as personal injury cases.. A law graduate of the University of London, he is admitted in both California and the United Kingdom. For eleven years, he authored the Annual Supplement to CEB “Real Property Remedies and Damages” book and now co-authors the ADR section of that treatise. He is a member of the State Bar Committee on ADR.. Malcolm has undergone hundreds of hours of mediation and arbitration training including “Mediating the Litigated Case” at the Straus Institute for Conflict Resolution at Pepperdine University, a symposium at the Harvard Negotiation Project and Steve Rosenberg’s Basic and Advanced Mediator Training courses. He has given numerous seminars on mediation and negotiation for CEB, Lorman Education Services, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Alameda, and Sonoma Bar Associations. He is a foundation member of the California and National Academies of Distinguished Neutrals and has an “A-V” rating in Martindale.. Malcolm believes that disputants who are treated fairly, with respect and dignity are empowered to fashion their own “win-win” solutions. He utilizes a flexible, improvisational approach and is willing to be “evaluative”, to explore “what-ifs” and ask probing questions to assist parties and their counsel to identify risks and benefits while gently encouraging them to face reality and shape creative solutions.. Says Sher, “I believe that culture, gender and personality impact disputants’ perception of rights and obligations and influence negotiation style and conflict resolution, and that disputants who are treated with dignity and respect become empowered to fashion their own ‘win-win’ solutions. I am flexible about process and improvisational in my approach. I am willing to be “evaluative”, explore “what-ifs”, ask probing questions and offer “reality checks”. I am never “directive” because I think that undermines clients’ rights to self-determination. In convening a mediation, I discuss efficient, cost-effective suggestions for pre-mediation discovery designed to meet the needs and budgets of parties. As my many testimonials show, I have a reputation of being qualified, competent and well-prepared.”

A native of Danville, Virginia, Harry Sakellaris is a graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia.  He obtained his law degree from the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University and a Master of Law and Taxation degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary, in 1986.  Harry is active in the community, having served on the Board of Directors of the Danville Chapter of the American Red Cross as chairman and president,  The Danville Speech and Hearing Center, Stratford House, The Community Tax Law Project (Richmond, Virginia) , Danville Community College Educational Foundation, Inc., the Danville Area Humane Society, the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Danville Area, as Co-Trustee of the JT-Minnie Maude Charitable Trust, and as an adjunct faculty member at Danville Community College and Averett University.  Harry is a Certified Public Accountant and his practice primarily involves wills, estate planning and administration, probate, trust law, charitable giving, and corporate law.