$ 350-350 per hour
also known as Porter Estate Planning
A native southern Californian, Emily graduated from Scripps College in Claremont with a B.A. in Honors Economics and Psychology. After three years working in Washington, D.C. for an economic expert witness, Emily returned to California to attend law school at University of Southern California. While in law school, Emily served as vice president of the Public Interest Law Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of the Interdisciplinary Law Journal.
After graduating from law school and being admitted as a member of the California Bar, Emily began practicing estate planning and tax law at McDermott, Will & Emery, where she catered to high net worth individuals and families. While practicing at the firm, Emily counseled clients on income, estate, generation-skipping transfer, gift, and property tax issues. She also provided advice on all phases of planning from creating and implementing an initial plan through probate and administration. Emily additionally assisted clients in more complex planning matters involving the formation and ongoing operation of tax-exempt organizations and LLCs as well as the strategic use of various estate planning tools such as intentionally defective grantor trusts, GRATs, QPRTs, insurance trusts, fictitious name trusts, and property leases.
After starting a family, Emily opened her own estate planning practice in South Pasadena where she lives and works with her husband and young children.
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$ 350-350 per hour
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Acquired: 2010
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1441 Huntington Drive #225., South Pasadena, CA, 91030
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Posted by Nora | June 2, 2018 | Hired Attorney
There's no one I trust more with the important and sensitive process of estate planning. Emily helped my husband and me establish an estate plan, prepare our wills, and create a family trust. She is clear, energetic, and a joy to be around, transforming a complicated and intimidating task into an eas...
Posted by Daniel | March 6, 2018 | Hired Attorney
My wife and I were clients of Emily's a few months ago and we were so incredibly happy with the legal assistance she provided. When it came time for looking for an attorney to help us with our estate plan, my wife and I did not want to pay big firm dollars for an estate that is well below the exempti...
Posted by Ella | February 27, 2018 | Hired Attorney
I am so happy to have met Emily for this very daunting process that my husband and I have procrastinated doing for way too long. Emily made the experience so simple and stress free, and assisted us in understanding quite a complex web of decisions. I feel lucky to have her as a resource now, and wil...
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2013 - Present
Attorney, Porter Estate Planning
2010 - 2013
Associate Attorney, McDermott Will & Emery
2004 - 2007
Research Associate, CRA International
Vice President
2009 - 2010
Interdisciplinary Law JournalEditor-in-Chief
2010
JD - Juris Doctor
2004
BA - Bachelor of Arts
English