David Scott Pawlowski

David S. Pawlowski has over twenty eight years experience representing individuals and organizations in all aspects of estate litigation and estate planning, including: Trusts, Wills, Probate, and Trust Administration. Over the course of his career, Mr. Pawlowski has developed a unique ability to quickly evaluate and resolve comprehensive estate planning matters and complex estate litigation cases. An advocate of employing aggressive litigation techniques, Mr. Pawlowski has achieved results for clients that seemed unattainable at the inception of the case. Mr. Pawlowski's practice focuses on matters involving disputed trusts, wills, and amendments, including capacity and undue influence claims, trustee defense matters, power-of-attorney litigation and elder abuse claims.

Mr Pawlowski is a California State appointed Hearing Officer for the California Horse Racing Board where he conducts and oversees hearings, adjudicates decisions, and issues findings of fact and conclusions of law and also acts as "of counsel" statewide for a major estate planning firm, handling all of their trust and estate litigation.

Graduating from California State University, Fullerton in Cal Western School of Law in 1993. Mr. Pawlowski is a member of the California State Bar, Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law Section, San Diego County Bar Association, Probate Attorneys of San Diego and was recognized as an attorney in the National Edition of Who's Who in America. Living in Del Mar with his family, Mr. Pawlowski spent many years coaching his son's Little League teams and was a Little League Board Member and President.  Formerly, Mr. Pawlowski was a board member on the Boys and Girls Club of San Dieguito, the Del Mar Historical Society and hosted a weekly radio show in the San Diego area discussing all aspects of Estate Planning and Estate Litigation.