California Estate Planning Lawyers

Estate Planning Law

2750 Bellflower Blvd., Suite 100, Long Beach, CA 90815

Estate Planning Law

2750 N Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90815

Lawyer Robert M. Stone, graduated from University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., 1978 and Hastings College of Law, University of California, J.D., 1982. While being a member of Los Angeles County, Long Beach and American Bar Associations, Robert M. Stone has been admitted in 1982, California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. He focuses on probate and trust law.

Estate Planning Law

5201 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

Ms. Basu began her career in financial services and insurance and has lived and worked across the globe, working with blue chip Fortune 500 companies. Her career has taken her from the New York City metropolitan area to India and Singapore, where she gained a unique perspective on global business practices and cultures. She has worked in senior management positions with a culturally diverse workforce. Having lived abroad for 13 years, Ms. Basu is particularly sensitive to how different cultural views can influence decision-making and risk appetite. She brings this holistic outlook to help her clients address legal problems, always taking the time to explain issues in terms clients can easily understand. Ms. Basu addresses complex issues in estate planning and probate cases, always keeping in mind the cultural ramifications of immigrant cultures. Ms. Basu is a member of the American Bar Association, including its section on Real Property, Trusts and Estates. She is also a member of the Silicon Valley Bar Association, which focuses exclusively on the issues of estate planning and probate. She is actively engaged in pro bono representation and has volunteered significant time with legal aid services organizations.

Estate Planning Law

15951 Los Gatos Blvd, Suite 1, Los Gatos, CA 95032

Zakiya J. Norton is a true rarity – a Bay Area native. Zakiya grew up in the South Bay but decided warm weather, blue skies, and temperate winters were unsatisfactory and attended college in upstate New York. After suffering through a few winters in Oneonta, NY and obtaining her B.A., Zakiya followed the undeniable siren song of her home state and attended law school at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. She then lost her senses again and moved to Las Vegas where she took the Nevada bar and practiced at a civil litigation firm in a variety of practice areas. It was during this role that Zakiya embraced her role as a litigator and learned the importance of advocating for her clients in the right manner, time, and place. After starting her family, the lure of California was too strong to resist and Zakiya moved back to the Bay Area and decided to undertake the herculean task of studying for the California bar while raising a small child. While looking for the seemingly impossible combination of a satisfying associate position at a law firm that would still allow her time to raise her young daughter, she decided to volunteer at Bay Area Legal Aid. Giving back to the community has always been a priority for Zakiya and Bay Area Legal Aid fits the bill. Little did she know that she’d actually be meeting her future business partner, Somita Basu, during her time at Bay Area Legal Aid and before you know it, the two of them decided to open their own firm. Zakiya not only has a strong strategic mind set for litigation matters but also a keen eye for the intricacies and potential pitfalls of estate planning. She understands that just because something is possible, it doesn’t mean it’s practical. Zakiya knows that estate planning documents are the ultimate guide for a client’s beneficiaries and therefore must be clear in articulating the client’s wishes while allowing flexibility for unseen circumstances. Zakiya draws on her extensive legal experience when advising her estate planning and probate clients without ever losing her signature sense of compassion, kindness, and her sense of humor. Zakiya continues to give back even now. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area non-profit, Cancer CAREpoint, which provides valuable services free of cost to all cancer patients and their families. Zakiya is also a special liaison to the California Lawyer’s Association Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Committee. She is a member of the Silicon Valley Bar Association, the Santa Clara County Black Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, and Black Women Lawyers of Northern California.

Estate Planning Law

3520 Bloomfield Rd, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Mr. Whitehead specializes in business, matters with an emphasis on start-up companies, corporate acquisitions and corporate financing. He also has an extensive estate planning practice, including probate and trust administration. He has represented both private and public companies in a variety of sophisticated transactions, including initial and mezzanine stage financings, corporate reorganizations and recapitalizations, mergers and asset sales, public offerings, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, proxy contests and tender offers. He has also served as counsel to independent directors of public companies advising on sensitive areas independent of the company’s general counsel. Mr. Whitehead has prepared materials for legal education courses involving corporate matters, has been a lecturer at Golden Gate University's Law School on securities matters and a Moot Court Judge for Stanford Law School. ?Mr. Whitehead has been active in public service as an officer and director of several charities, including the California Historical Society Foundation, The Gold Rush Trail Foundation, Opera West Foundation, Hannah and Erich Sachs Foundation and the Abraham Lincoln High School of San Francisco Alumni Association that he co-founded in 1988. He previously served as a director of Easter Seals Society of San Francisco, Enterprise for High School Students, Traveler's Aid Society of San Francisco and Hospital de la Familia. His biography currently appears in Who's Who in America and two of its specialty series, Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in the West.