California Lawyers Brandon Spivack to Brandy Thompson

Firm: Spivack Law, A Professional Corporation

1470 Maria Lane , Walnut Creek , California 94596

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

Brandon Lee Spivack began his legal career in California in 2013 after receiving his LL.M. from the nationally recognized Heckerling Graduate Program in Estate Planning and Tax. As an associate attorney at Gresham Savage Nolan &Tilden, Brandon had many opportunities to learn and expand his expertise beyond estate planning because of the support of his colleagues. Brandon learned the intricacies of proper business planning from his experienced colleagues in the business and tax departments. Other attorneys and staff in the real estate department taught Brandon how to confront challenging title issues that can arise during a probate or trust administration. His mentor and boss in the estate planning department demonstrated to Brandon how to pragmatically approach common and uncommon planning issues. Before leaving Gresham Savage, Brandon gained the knowledge and confidence to become a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law by the California State Bar, Board of Legal Specialization.. In 2018, Brandon moved his family to Walnut Creek to pursue an opportunity with one of California’s most reputable estate planning firms, Hartog Baer & Hand. As an associate in the planning department, Brandon spent most of his time handling tax issues for clients with significant wealth. He worked with clients to prepare Private Letter Ruling requests; devise and execute estate freezes; draft and file IRS Forms 706, 709, and 1041; and review business structures for tax planning opportunities. Brandon strengthened his skills as a tax attorney through the unique opportunities he received at HBH.. In both Northern California and Southern California, Brandon has had the privilege of working with charitable organizations and philanthropic clients to facilitate lifetime and testamentary gifting. He has worked closely with various Community Foundations to create Donor Advised Funds; draft charitable trusts; review pledge agreements, and establish charitable organizations. Brandon advises clients on entity governance, including mandatory reporting and compliance procedures to ensure charitable organizations maintain their good standing and tax-exempt status with the state and the federal government.. In 2019 and 2020, Brandon was recognized by his peers as a Rising Star. This award is given to 2.5 percent of attorneys below the age of 40 in California.

Firm: Valvo & Associates, Inc.

600 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1150 , Los Angeles , California 90017

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization , Immigration

3381 S Lucille Ln , Lafayette , California 94549

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Firm: Wolkin Curran, LLP

555 Montgomery Street   1100  9 , San Francisco , California 94111

Practice Areas: Construction Defects,Construction ,Insurance

Firm: Law Offices of Andersson & Andersson PC

1600 S Main St Ste 385 , Walnut Creek , California 94596

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

Firm: Zapf Estate Planners, APC

701 Palomar Airport Rd. #300 , Carlsbad , California 92011

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

I began my career working for large law firms, moving paper, billing large sums over a lot of hours, moving money from one rich entity to another, dealing with politics, bureaucracy, and unhappy clients. Obviously, all of this made me extremely unhappy. This was not what I imagined when I went to law school. I just wanted to help people and make a difference in their lives.. One day, a friend of my mother asked me to update her living trust. The trust was almost 15 years old and there wasn't much to it. It didn't reflect the current law and it didn't reflect her current life needs. Further, she told me that her attorney never even explained to her what was in the trust. So she was learning everything from me 15 years after the fact! Worst of all, none of her assets were even titled in the name of the trust. This meant that all the time, trouble, and money she spent was a waste, since her family would still have to deal with probate after her death.. Because of my own problems in setting up an estate plan, and because I wanted to help my mom's friend (and others like her, I decided to start my own firm).. I figured I could make my law firm much better than most by just doing the opposite of what my mom's friend's lawyer did. This is how she described her encounter 15 years ago and how the process went: 1) She provided some limited information to the attorney; 2) The attorney did not ask many questions; 3) The attorney hastily prepared some documents; and 4) She signed the documents, put them away, and never looked at them again.. It's not a stretch to know that this isn't the kind of relationship that most people want. Thus, I sought to bring back the long-term, trusted relationship between attorneys and clients. So I came up with a new process and model.. The Zapf Estate Planners Model. Almost everything we do is based on a flat fee. No one likes to get billed for a quick email or phone call to an attorney. And I definitely do not like to send those bills and keep track of my time in six-minute increments. So I did away with that old, tired way of doing law. Feel free to contact me as you wish.. We want your trust to work for you. Too often people fail to change the ownership of their assets into the name of the trust. Too often attorneys fail to help their clients with this difficult process. No longer. It is our responsibility to supervise you funding your trust.. No longer will estate planning be a one-time transaction. When you hire us, that is when our relationship begins…for life. We offer free reviews of your plan every three years at no additional charge. We also offer a membership program (that nearly all of our clients participate in), which includes a yearly plan review and unlimited changes to your , please understand that estate planning isn’t really about you.  After all, you will be gone when your plan takes effect. It’s about creating a plan of action that’s going to take care of those you love most.

Firm: WYMAN LAW GROUP

515 S. Flower Street , Los Angeles , California 90071

Practice Areas: Litigation, Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect, Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Mr. Brandon Wyman was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA in a family of lawyers.  He attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and law school at Loyola Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Entertainment Law Review.  During law school, Mr. Wyman also worked as a law clerk for federal magistrate judge Hon. Victor Kenton (Ret.) and as a clerk at a renouned plaintiff's firm specializing in wrongful death and mass tort cases.  After passing the bar in 2011, Mr. Wyman worked as an attorney in the toxic tort and product liability departments in nationwide cases against corporate giants such as ConAgra and GlaxoSmith Kline.  Mr. Wyman then spent three years at defense firm Yoka & Smith, where he worked for Goodyear and Continental tire companies defending wrongful death and catastrophic injury product liability cases.  Mr. Wyman then spent the next few years branching out into elder abuse cases against hospice providers, elder care facilities, and skilled nursing homes, as well as litigating family law matters.  He now brings his extensive experience on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, elders and families to his own law firm, Wyman Law Group, where he handles catastrophic injury, wrongful death, product defect, and business litigation cases as well as family law matters including divorces, custody battles and restraining orders.

Firm: Bright and Brown

550 N Brand Blvd Ste 2100 , Glendale , California 91203

Practice Areas: Litigation

Firm: VER

757 W California Ave , Glendale , California 91203

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor

Firm: Dhillon Law Group

4675 Macarthur Ct Ste 1410 , Newport Beach , California 92660

Practice Areas: General Practice, Communications & Media

12100 Wilshire Blvd #220 , Los Angeles , California 90025

Practice Areas: Entertainment

Firm: Adli Law Group P.C.

444 South Flower Street , Los Angeles , California 90071

Practice Areas: Civil Rights, Labor , Employment & Labor

Brandon A. Takahashi is Head of Labor and Employment at ADLI Law Group. His practice specializes in advice and counseling, and employment litigation in both State and Federal Court, on behalf of private sector and public entity employers. Having handled hundreds of employment matters, Mr. Takahashi utilizes his experience and skills to advise and counsel clients on all manner of employment-related issues, including employee management, discipline and termination, internal investigations, leave management, proper employee classification, and sexual harassment training.. As an experienced litigator, he has handled all aspects of litigation, up through and including trial preparation, in numerous cases and claims regarding all types of discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, Fair Employment and Housing Act retaliation, whistleblower retaliation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of contract, Family Medical Leave Act and California Family Rights Act violations, and wage and hour claims.. Prior to joining ADLI Law Group, Mr. Takahashi was Senior Associate with the national employment law firm, Jackson Lewis P.C. In this capacity, he focused on employment issues in several areas, including the hospitality, retail, restaurant, banking and commerce, medical and medical device manufacturing, sports, and software programming industries. In his years as an employment litigator, Mr. Takahashi represented, among other clients, the Regents of the University of California in a case of first impression involving interpretation and application of California Government Code section 12940(g) with respect to claims of employer retaliation following alleged reports of suspected patient abuse at medical facilities. He also assisted in the defense of a series of cases throughout California which addressed a split of authority between the Third and Fourth District Courts of Appeal regarding the continued viability of the judicial exhaustion defense for public entities.. Mr. Takahashi was selected to the Lawyers of Color inaugural “Hot List” in 2013, consisting of the top 100 minority attorneys under the age of 40 in the Western Region of the United States. He has also been named a Rising Star by Southern California Super Lawyers, a designation reserved for the top 2.5% attorneys, for 4 years running, 2013 – 2016.. Mr. Takahashi received his Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior from the University of California, Davis in 2001, and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2006.. Areas of Practice:. Education:. Bar Admissions:. Awards & Honors:. Languages:

Firm: Law Offices of Brandon Sua & Associates

5756 E. Los Angeles Ave. , Simi Valley , California 93063

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense

Brandon sees it as his duty, and is indeed committed to balancing the scales of justice. Offended by what he interprets as rampant socio-economic and cultural inequities, he can not resist taking up the cause and defending the position taken by those he perceives as unable, or unlikely, to succeed if they have no option but to fight alone. Describing the practice of Criminal Defense as rewarding, Brandon feels, “… to be a successful Criminal Defense attorney, one must truly believe in the purpose of an adversarial justice system. It takes a certain kind of person to excel in this discipline, strength of character, benevolence of heart, concepts that must be inherent and cannot be learned. One must be aggressive yet compassionate, humble yet confident.” In pursuing a career in Criminal Defense and Personal Injury, it is important to Brandon to work shoulder to shoulder with a team he believes in.

Firm: Maynard Nexsen LLP

2 Embarcadero Ctr Ste 1450 , San Francisco , California 94111

Practice Areas: Intellectual Property

Firm: Carlton DiSante and Freudenberger LLP

4510 Executive Drive   300  921 , San Diego , California 92121

Practice Areas: Labor

Firm: Catanzarite Law Corp

2331 W Lincoln Ave , Anaheim , California 92801

Practice Areas: Business

43027 Brighton Cmn , Fremont , California 94538

Firm: Bradley Grombacher LLP

31365 Oak Crest Dr Ste 240 , Westlake Village , California 91361

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor

Firm: Hogan & Stickel, Inc.

811 N Main St , Fort Bragg , California 95437

Practice Areas: Tax

Firm: Fredrickson, Mazeika & Grant, LLP

5720 Oberlin Drive , San Diego , California 92121

Practice Areas: Construction Law, General Litigation, Insurance Law