Admitted
1972, California; 1973, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1977, U.S. Tax Court
Law School
Loyola University of Los Angeles, J.D., cum laude, 1972
Law School Graduation Year
1972
College
University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., 1966
Memberships
Orange County (Director, 1984, Chairman, 1980, Vice-Chairman, 1979 and Secretary, 1978, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law Section) and American (Member, Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law) Bar Associations; State Bar of California (Chair, 1993-1994; Vice Chair, 1992-1993; Advisor, 1991-1992; 1995-1997; Member, 1988-1990; Executive Committee, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section; Editor, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate News, 1990-1991)
Biographical
Phi Alpha Delta. Author: Powers of Attorney as a Solution to Flexible Drafting: Friend or Foe? 25th Annual UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Institute, May 2003; Avoiding Formal Probate Administration, University of Southern California Law School Probate and Trust Conference, November 2002; Powers of Attorney for Health, Wealth and a Changing World, Twenty-First Annual Southern California Tax and Estate Planning Forum, September 2001; Ethics in Estate Planning: The Sword-Shield Dichotomy, Nineteenth Annual Southern California Tax and Estate Planning Forum, October 21, 1999; Legislated Ethics: Comply or Die (Legislated Ethics in California and Beyond: How to Protect Your Clients, Their Beneficiaries, and Yourself as Drafter), 14th Annual Southern California Tax and Estate Planning Forum, 10-20-94; Legislated Ethics: What You Don't Know (About Assembly Bill 21) Will Hurt You, Estate Planning, Trust & Probate News, Sept., 1993; Drafting Solutions to the 1989 Changes in the California Probate Code, 13th Annual Program, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section, State Bar of California, 1989; Lifetime Funding Considerations in Administering Revocable Trusts, Tenth Annual UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Institute, May 1988; Proposition 13: Revised and Revisited (An Analysis of AB 1488), 6 Orange County Bar Journal 387, Winter, 1979. Quarterly Author: Mike's Minutiae California Trusts and Estates Quarterly. Co-Draftsman: Death Taxes: Completing the Forms and Computing the Taxes, California Continuing Education of the Bar, June, 1979. Member, Advisory Board, UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Institute, 1997—. Member, Planning Committee, University of Southern California Probate and Trust Conference, 1997—. Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. (Certified Specialist, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization)