With four decades of legal experience, I provide counsel for Business, Real Estate, Estate Planning, Tax, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, and Hospitality Law matters. Based in Southern California, I represent clients as outside general counsel throughout the world. I am dedicated to delivering legal expertise and experience focused on the best possible outcomes.
Highly accomplished and respected by peers, I have been honored as the 2018 Southern California Lawyer of the Year for Closely-Held Companies & Family Businesses Law, and the 2019 Southern California Lawyer of the Year for Trusts and Estates.
Outside of work, I am committed to giving back to the community, with a particular dedication to children and the fight against hunger. My involvement includes serving as the Director and President of the Center for Childhood, founding Lawyers Against Hunger, as well as work with the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and American Academy for Dance and Kindred Arts.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Tax Law
- Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
- Intellectual Property
- Entertainment & Sports Law
- Hospitality
- California
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- State Bar of California
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- 9th Circuit
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- California Supreme Court
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- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
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- English
- Partner
- Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
- Current
- University of California - Los Angeles
- J.D. (1975)
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- University of California - Berkeley
- A.B. (1972)
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- Super Lawyer
- Super Lawyers Magazine
- From 2005-2015
- Leaders List
- Citywealth
- "Top 100 Attorneys" in the United States
- Worth Magazine
- AV Rating
- Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review
- UCLA Anderson School of Management Steinbeck Family Business Seminar
- Founding Director
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- Motor Press Guild
- Member
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- Haute Living and Haute Time magazines
- Fine Autos Editor
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- Checkered Flag 200 Petersen Automotive Museum
- Member
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- Center for Childhood
- Director and President
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- Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
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- Dee Construction Company
- Director and Corporate Secretary
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- Milken Institute Associates
- Member
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- Lawyers Against Hunger
- Founder and Chairman, Advisory Board
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- American Academy for Dance and Kindred Arts
- Advisor
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- Los Angeles County District Attorney's Executive Advisory Council
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- California Lexington Group
- Member
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- Lappen Realty & Investment Corporation,
- Director and President
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- UCLA Law School
- Trustee
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- Activities: President from 1997-1998
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- D.A.R.E. California Board of Directors' Executive Committee
- Member
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- Los Angeles World Affairs Council
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- AYSO
- Soccer Coach
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- UCLA Chancellor's Associates
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- Santa Monica Protective Association
- Director and President
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- The 100-Year Estate Plan
- Private Wealth
- Presentation, Luncheon, Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills
- Beverly Hills Family Office Director’s Association
- Closing The Philanthropic Divide: What Individuals Want From Their Advisors, International Association of Advisors in Philanthropy, Luxe Sunset Hotel
- International Association of Advisors in Philanthropy,
- January 9-10, 2015
- Featured Speaker, UCLA Anderson Steinbeck Family Business Seminar
- January 9-10, 2015
