I specialize in litigation involving trusts, fiduciary liability and removal, contested accountings, property disputes, beneficiary and heirship disputes, will contests and trust contests, and other complicated estate procedures. I have been successful in this specialized area, including winning a $5.4 million judgment at trial and a $1.2 million appeal in the same day. I am sometimes asked to speak to attorneys and other professionals about trust and estate litigation. I addressed the American Bar Association at the 20th Annual Symposia of its Real Property, Probate & Trust Section, in Washington DC (regarding complicated aspects of trust and probate litigation); the State Bar of California at its 2014 Summit in Newport Beach (Litigated to Death: How to Sue, Defend, and Settle with the Dead); the Los Angeles County Bar at its Trusts & Estates Symposium 2015 (ethics for the probate bar. Other presentations range from an all-day trust and estate boot-camp in 2014, to all-day advanced legal-certification courses in 2013 and 2015, to a post-death litigation presentation made to civil litigation and trial attorneys in Los Angeles, broadcast live to attorneys in four other cities in 2012.I am admitted to the state and federal courts of California, Illinois, and New York, and the Seventh and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal. I am a member of the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate & Trust Section, and Probate & Fiduciary Litigation Committee; and the trust & estate sections of the California, Illinois, New York, Los Angeles County, and Pasadena bar associations.Specialties: Certified Specialist - Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law (California Board of Legal Specialization).