Heather P. Glick-Atalla

Heather Glick-Atalla focuses her law practice on Estate Planning and Nonprofit Law. As part of her nonprofit law practice she forms nonprofit corporations, prepares applications for federal and state tax exempt status, and serves as general counsel for nonprofit organizations that have compliance issues or are in need of assistance with nonprofit governance. Her estate planning services include drafting revocable and irrevocable living trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, advanced health care directives, durable powers of attorney, HIPAA documents, trust certifications, grantor retained annuity trusts, charitable remainder trusts, lead and annuity trusts, stock purchase and sale agreements, buy-sell agreements, prenuptial agreements, transmutation agreements, deeds and assignments, forming family partnerships and limited liability companies, and completing estate tax returns.

Heather graduated near the top of her class from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2009, where she was awarded an academic scholarship during all three years of study. She earned her bachelor of science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 2005. Heather was admitted to practice law in California in 2009.

During law school Heather focused on developing her research and writing skills through her courses and legal clerkships, and was a member of the San Diego Law Review. While clerking for the USD Law Entrepreneurship Clinic, she assisted low-income entrepreneurs in drafting and filing necessary documents to start or expand their businesses. Heather also conducted extensive legal research and writing during her summer clerkship at Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Juskie, LLP, in San Diego.

Prior to joining Glick Atalla, APLC in 2010, Heather volunteered her time at Bet Tzedek – The House of Justice in Los Angeles, primarily working on behalf of Holocaust survivors seeking reparations from Germany and other European countries. She orchestrated a major survivor’s reparations program, which included drafting all necessary applications, forms, and correspondence to hundreds of clients as well as attorneys in Bet Tzedek’s volunteer network across the United States.

In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Heather was named a Southern California Super Lawyers “Rising Star” attorney and was featured in two issues of Los Angeles magazine as well as Super Lawyers magazine, and in 2014 she was nominated by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal as one of the Valley’s Trusted Advisors.