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Your family, your business, your legacy matters. I am a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law. I work with my clients to ensure their legacy provides, protects and prospers. I have extensive experience in. ·         Estate Planning. ·         Sophisticated Wealth Transfer. ·         Asset Protection. ·         Business Succession Planning. ·         Personal Privacy Planning. ·         Family and Charitable Gift Planning. ·         Marital and Domestic Partnership. ·         Probate and Trust Administration. Guardianship and Special Needs. ·         Estate and Gift Tax Representation. ·         Mediation and Nonjudicial Binding Agreements. Estate Planning I work with clients to create custom estate plans that are right for their needs across all aspects of planning including trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney, advance health care directives, government filings and related documents and trustee selection and management. I advise clients on options to avoid court-supervised probates or conservatorships and minimize estate taxes. I counsel parents on appointing guardians and trustees for minor children and the creation of trusts for adult children to provide asset protection in the event of divorce, bankruptcy or legal judgment. I continue to work beyond the plan on all the details that make the plan work, trustee management, beneficiary advising, financial and taxation issues.. Sophisticated Wealth Transfer, Asset Protection and Business Succession and IPO Planning I counsel high net worth individuals including, business and property owners, entrepreneurs, and investors on sophisticated planning strategies designed to minimize gift and estate taxes and preserve and protect business and personal assets now and for future generations.. Personal Privacy Planning I work with public figures and other clients requiring privacy to create and implement planning to limit risk or necessity of public disclosure including title holding and fictious name trust and qualified blind trusts for buying, selling and holding assets.. Family and Charitable Gift Planning I counsel clients on tax efficient methods of making lifetime gifts to children, grandchildren, charities, alma maters, etc., including preparation of qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs), irrevocable Crummey trusts or 2503(c)(3) trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) and irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs).  I assist clients with making substantial gifts to charity, including establishment of private foundations and creation of charitable remainder trusts.. Probate and Trust Administration I represent clients in all aspects of probate and trust administration, including assisting executors, administrators and trustees in fulfilling their legal and administrative obligations. Counsel beneficiaries regarding their interests in trusts or estates. I prepare federal gift and estate tax returns and am authorized to practice before the IRS.

Tamara L. Harper. Navigating entrepreneurs, inventors and small to mid-size companies to safe harbors through the maze of employment regulations, corporate formation and compliance, real estate and civil litigation, trademark registration and defense, business sale or acquisition, and investor capitalization, asset protection, business legacy planning, probate matters, estate planning and trust administration.

Jim K. Dawson is a shareholder with the firm, focusing on patent, patent portfolio development, and licensing matters. His practice also includes counseling on patent and trademark infringement. Representative technologies in Mr. Dawson's practice include semiconductor manufacturing and process technology, processor hardware and firmware, digital to analog circuitry, semiconductor devices, medical devices, wireless systems and components, CMOS imaging, MEMS and mechanical devices. Mr. Dawson previously worked as a consultant for the Intellectual Capital Management Group and as in-house Senior Intellectual Property Counsel for Conexant Systems (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems). While with Conexant, he was responsible for patent portfolio development, innovation harvesting and intellectual property training for engineers and management located at design centers in France, Russia, Canada, and the United States, resulting in over 400 U.S. filed patent applications. He also developed U.S. and foreign patent filing strategies, drafted and negotiated complex technology development, non-disclosure, software distribution, and service agreements, performed patent infringement and validity analysis and performed due diligence investigations for M&A and divestiture activities. Immediately prior to joining the firm, Mr. Dawson worked with Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman in Los Angeles, focusing on patent prosecution, patent and trade dress infringement analysis and licensing. Mr. Dawson currently serves as Vice-President of the Intellectual Property Section of the Ventura County Bar (2008, 2007). He was named as one of Southern California’s “Rising Stars” in intellectual property law in a survey of his peers, published in Los Angeles Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine, in both 2005 and 2004. He is a member of the Licensing Committee, Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California and was a contributing editor for Drafting Business Contracts: Principles, Techniques & Forms, CEB 2007, 2006. He is a member of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, Orange County Patent Law Association and American Intellectual Property Law Association. Mr. Dawson earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the school of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1989, and earned his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Dayton, Ohio in 1995. Following his undergraduate studies, Mr. Dawson joined Rockwell International as a Systems Test Engineer, where he worked on the main propulsion system of the space shuttle Endeavor. Mr. Dawson is admitted to practice in California and before the Federal District Court, Central District. He is also registered to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the California Bar Association.

I am a life crisis specialist.  I help clients in times of personal legal crisis, such as when they cannot pay their bills or their relationships fall apart.  I have over 25 years of experience helping clients in bankruptcy and family law cases, making thousands of court appearances and helping thousands of clients.  I would like to help you!. I file bankruptcies for people and small businesses so they can be relieved of mountains of debt, stop wage garnishments, avoid taxes, and keep their homes, cars and businesses.. I represent people in family law cases including divorce, custody and support cases.  I am a Certified Family Law Specialist, certified by the State Bar of California.  I love being in court, but understand that most of my clients do not.  Therefore, I work to help reach reasonable solutions, which sometimes involve court and othertimes involve mediation and always involve negotiations.. I am licensed in both California and Texas.  I give a free, 30 minute consultation, so let's talk!

Aaron Botti has extensive experience negotiating, drafting and analyzing various types of oil and gas contracts, such as purchase and sale agreements, joint operating agreements, area of mutual interest agreements, farm-outs, lease and surface use agreements, and easements for domestic petroleum producers. His professional accomplishments include:

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.

Experienced Trust attorney serving clients in Westlake Village and surrounding areas.