Firm: Beaufort County Probate Court
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: The Urbatsch Law Firm, P.C.
Practice Areas: Elder Law
Kevin Urbatsch is a principal of the special needs and settlement planning law firm, The Urbatsch Law Firm P.C. located in Berkeley, California. Kevin also serves as National Director of the Academy of Special Needs Planners (ASNP), a national organization of special needs and settlement planning professionals. Kevin also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the NAELA Journal. Kevin is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Kevin is also a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).. Kevin hosts the Special Needs Planning Symposium an annual conference for planning professionals in wine country in Northern California. See .. In 2013, Parenting Magazine named Kevin as one of the nation’s Top Child Advocates for his work in fighting for the rights of children with special needs. In May 2011, Kevin was presented the NAELA’s Presidential Recognition Award for his work in special needs planning. In each year from 2010 to 2021, Kevin was named a Northern California Superlawyer. In 2009, Kevin was named KRON-TV’s Best of the Bay estate-planning attorney for Northern California.. Kevin is a frequent lecturer to professionals and consumers on special needs and estate planning. He also is the author (or co-author) of the following books and treatises and you can review his author’s page on
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Firm: Anderson Elder Law
Practice Areas: Elder Law
Ms. Anderson is the principal of Anderson Elder Law in Media, PA, and concentrates her practice in the area of elder law matters. Ms. Anderson is a certified elder law attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation and is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. She is an Accredited VA Attorney, and is a member of the Special Needs Alliance as well as the Life Care Planning Law Firms Association. She has been selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers®since 2004, and one of the top 50 female lawyers in Pennsylvania since 2007, in elder law. Ms. Anderson is a past Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Elder Law Section (2009) and Co-Chair of the Delaware County Bar Association’s Elder Law Committee. In addition, she serves on the Board of Directors for the Pennsylvania Association of Elder Law Attorneys.. She has served on the board of directors of Horizons Unlimited Geriatric Education Association and is a frequent course planner and lecturer on the topics of elder law, estate planning and long term care planning. Ms. Anderson received her Master’s in taxation fromVillanovaUniversity and graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
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Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: RMO LLP
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: Howell Larry C CPA
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Practice Areas: Elder Law
Julie M. Fiedler, Attorney at Law, is a resident of San Ramon since 1988, a Registered Nurse with over 30 years of experience in healthcare & senior services. Julie is a Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA), certified by the National Elder Law Foundation. Julie is accredited by the Department of Veterans Affairs to help individuals in all matters involving VA benefits. She served two terms on the Board of Directors for the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc., and is the past President for the Northern California Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, she is an active member of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform and ElderCounsel. Ms. Fiedler is also served one term as President of the Adult Day Services Network of Contra Costa.
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Firm: Campbell Phillips PC
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: Center For Elder Law and Estate Planning
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: Garcia & Artigliere
Practice Areas: Elder Law
Attorney Justin L. Vitug practices at the Long Beach, California offices of Garcia & Artigliere. He primarily focuses on elder abuse and nursing home abuse, applying a strong work ethic and passion for helping others to deliver quality counsel in every legal matter he handles. Vitug earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Loyola Law School in 2013 and his Juris Doctor degree at Loyola Marymount University in 2016. During law school, he clerked for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and the Honorable S. James Otero, Federal Court Judge at the Central District of California, where he assisted in the litigation of various felony offenses. Vitug joined Garcia & Artigliere in 2107.
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Firm: Schwartz & Schwartz
Practice Areas: Elder Law
Prior to joining forces with his father in 2003 to form Schwartz& Schwartz, Kevin was a litigation associate at the Los Angelesoffice of Reed Smith,one of the 15 largest law firms in the world with more than 1,500lawyers throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Whilethere, Kevin focused his practice on complex pharmaceutical, medicaldevice and commercial litigation, including business disputes relatedto trade secrets and unfair competition.. Kevin earned his law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he served as Production Editor of the Entertainment Law Review. Kevin also received the American Jurisprudence Award, achieving first-in-class honors (Legal Writing).. Before law school, Kevin completed his undergraduate work at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and – of course – continues to be a ‘die-hard’ Bruin fan.. When he’s not working, Kevin enjoys spending time doing just aboutanything with his wife and children. He also continues trying (invain?) to improve his remarkably average golf game, hoping one day tobeat his law partner in an honest round of eighteen holes.. * * *. Kevin now limits his law practice to elder abuse litigation,fiduciary litigation, probate, trust and conservatorship litigation,nursing home litigation, residential care facility for the elderly(RCFE) litigation, consumer protection litigation, NASD arbitrationsand related complex probate and civil litigation matters.. In addition to his private practice, Kevin currently serves as Special Deputy Trial Counsel for the State Bar of California (by appointment of the Chief Trial Counsel), and is responsible forinvestigating and prosecuting claims filed against California attorneyswho are affiliated with the State Bar or its Board of Governors (orwith any other State Bar entity), or who otherwise present a potentialconflict of interest in any action by the Chief Trial Counsel.. Kevin also is a current member of the Los Angeles County ProbateVolunteer Panel (PVP), available for court appointment to representproposed conservatees or others in trust, probate and conservatorshipproceedings.. Kevin is a member of the California bar and the Los Angeles CountyBar Association, and has published articles on a variety of legaltopics. He practices throughout California.
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Firm: Muscarella & Associates, APC
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: Self
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: Office of County Counsel
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: Steele, George, Schofield & Ramos, LLP
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: Griffith Young & Lass
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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Firm: Law Offices of Linda S. Durston
Practice Areas: Elder Law
Linda S. Durston, Ph.D., J.D., practices estate, special needs and incapacity planning, probate and trust administration, conservatorship and guardianship law, and other aspects of Elder Law. She has a strong background in public benefits administration.. Ms. Durston is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, the Berkeley-Albany Bar Association, and East Bay Trusts & Estates Lawyers. She chaired the Elder Law, Conservatorship and Guardianship Committee Alameda County Bar Association and of East Bay Trusts & Estates Lawyers (2008-2010). She is a member of the California State Bar Trusts and Estates Executive Committee where she is active on the Incapacity, the Estate Planning, the Educating Consumers, and the Trust and Estate Quarterly subcommittees.. Ms. Durston is a contributing author to two of the University of California’s Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) practice treatises for lawyers: She coauthors Chapter 14 (“Duties of Conservators of the Estate”) and Chapter 22 (“Limited Conservatorships”) of CEB’sCalifornia Conservatorship Practiceand authors Chapter 5 (“Estate Planning”) of CEB’sSpecial Needs Trusts Planning: Drafting and Administration. She authored Chapter 12 (“Seeking or Opposing Removal of Trustee”) of Matthew Bender’s attorney practice guideCalifornia Trust coauthored a chapter on special needs trusts for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel’sAIDS Law Manual(2004 Fourth Edition). She is principal author with Linda G. Mills of “The Rhetoric, Politics, and Therapeutics of Opening Statements in Social Security Disability Hearings,”Yale Journal on Law and Feminism8, 1:119-144, 1996.. Ms. Durston is a frequent speaker to professional and community organizations on estate and special needs planning and administration. She recently appeared as a guest to discuss Social Security issues on Chuck Finney’s National Public Radio broadcast “Your Legal Rights” (station KALW).. Ms. Durston is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received undergraduate and graduate (A.B., M.A., ., and Ph.D.) degrees in Rhetoric. She received her J.D. from New College of California School of Law of San Francisco in 1999. She was admitted to practice law in the State of California and in United States Federal Court in the Northern District of California also in 1999. Before Ms. Durston entered the legal profession, she lectured in Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and in English at the University of California, Davis, and San Jose State University.. She is the proud mother of one, loves to read, cook, knit and hike, and has a soft spot for Beethoven, Bach and Boxer dogs.
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Firm: Senior Advocacy Network-Senior Law Project
Practice Areas: Elder Law
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