Kristina Renee Hess

Kristina’s passion is to embody an everlasting trust with each of her valuable clients. Her mission is to establish legal and inspirational legacies in order to pass them on to your future generations. Her objective, as your family attorney is to listen, to understand, and to protect you regarding legal, financial, plus business decisions throughout your life with her most compelling goal—to empower your loved ones when you cannot. Her vision is to be your guiding angel and is the bedrock foundation for KR Hess Law.

At her core, she is a strategic, yet creative thinker that comprehends the legal issues facing you as they relate to your individual life situation. Combine that with her analytical skills, and Kristina will efficiently equip you with the legal instruments to protect your hard earned wealth and, were something ever to happen, ensure that all you have earned throughout your life, stays within your family structure.

Prior to establishing her own firm in 2009, Kristina has a proven track record with over 20 years of legal experience, highlighted with San Francisco’s prestigious law firms such as Shearman & Sterling and Pillsbury Winthrop. Her extensive “best practice” experience has been focused in a wide variety of complementary practice areas to include Estate Planning, Living Trusts, Charitable Planning, Litigation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution. Added to this, she is a co-author of Amazon’s best seller book, More Than Money – How to Leave a Lasting Legacy to Your Family.

She is a graduate from Berkeley Law School. Following that, Kristina was trained at Pepperdine’s Straus Institute and at Harvard University in conflict resolution and has worked as a court appointed mediator to resolve litigation, family business, real estate, and trust/estate disputes.

Kristina is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law by The State Bar of California.

Growing up in San Diego County, she has a full life with her husband and three sons where they enjoy playing soccer, running, skiing, practicing yoga and, of course, going to the beautiful beach. She has served as an Advisory Board member for the Boys & Girls Club Montessori School, coached youth soccer as well as raised funds for her local church.