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About Virginia
Biography
Virginia is a partner in Wendel Rosen’s Trusts & Estates Practice Group. She focuses her practice on estate planning, trust administration, probate and elder law and mediating matters in her practice area. She has particular expertise in estate planning for LGBT families, as well as representation of individual and professional fiduciaries in the administration of living trusts, conservatorships of the person and estate and decedents’ estates.
A frequent author and speaker on estate planning related issues, including LGBT estate planning, powers of attorney, estate planning in the context of dissolutions, and end of life decisions, she has presented before a wide variety of legal, professional and private organizations.
She is a former Certified Family Law specialist and mediates matters in her areas of expertise and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estates Lawyers.
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Licensed in California for 45 years
State: California
Acquired: 1981
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Location
Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP
1111 Broadway, Floor 24, Oakland, CA, 94607
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Experience
Honors
2015
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyer
2014
Top 50 Women Northern California Super Lawyers, Northern California Super Lawyers
2014
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2013
Top 100 Northern California Super Lawyers, Northern California Super Lawyers
2013
Top 50 Women Northern California Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2013
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2012
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2011
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2010
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2009
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2008
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2008
Certificate of Recognition for 25 Years of Service, AIDS Legal Referral Panel
2007
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2006
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2005
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2005
Women of Distinction, East Bay Business Times
2004
Super Lawyer, Northern California Super Lawyers
2001
Certificate of Recognition, California State Senate
2001
Certificate of Recognition, AIDS Legal Referral Panel
1993
Founder's Award, AIDS Legal Referral Panel
1991
Award of Merit, Legal Aid Association of California
1991
Pro Bono Award, JC Penney
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Pro Bono Award, Alameda County Bar Association
Work Experience
2012 - Present
Partner, Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP
Associations
2001 - Present
Alameda County Bar Association, Litigation Committee of the Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate SectionChairman
Alameda County Bar Association
Member
New Directions
Director
1999 - 2005
Legal Assistance for Seniors, Alameda CountyBoard of Directors
1991 - 1992
Alameda County Bar Association, Litigation Committee of the Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate SectionBoard of Directors
Education
1980
Golden Gate University School of Law
JD - Juris Doctor
1975
San Francisco State University
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Speaking Engagements
2005
California Judicial Council
AB 205
2005
San Francisco Bar Association, Estates & Trusts Section
Premarital Agreements and Basics of Family Law for Estate Planners
2005
California State University
Advanced Health Care Directives and End of Life Decisions
2005
Estate Planning Counsel of Sacramento
Estate Planning Under the New Domestic Partnersip Law
2005
Estate Planning Council of Diablo Valley, Lafayette, California
Estate Planning Unver the New Domestic Partnership Law
2005
California State University, Fullerton
Trusts and Trusteeships
2005
San Francisco Chapter of the California Certified Public Accountant Society, San Francisco
California's New Domestic Partnership Laws: AB 205 & 2580
2004
Bay Isle Financial Planning, Oakland, California
Estate Planning
2004
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Practice Under California's New Domestic Partnership Law
2004
Tri-Valley Estate Planning Council
Estate Planning Under the New Domestic Partnership Law
2004
Smith Barney, San Francisco, CA
AB 205
2004
Continuing Education of the Bar, San Francisco
Practice Under California's New Domestic Partnership Law
2004
Northern California Human Resources Association, Berkeley
AB 205: California Domestic Partnership Law
2004
California State University Fullerton Extension, Oakland
Advance Health Care Directives and End of Life Decisions
2004
Bay Isle Financial Group, Oakland
AB 205
2004
East Bay Estate Planning Counsel, Oakland
AB205: Estate Planning Issues
2004
California Bankers Association 26th Annual Regulatory Compliance Conference, San Diego
Domestic Partner Banking
2004
Mechanics Bank Symposium, Oakland
AB 205: California's New Domestic Partnership Law
2004
California State University Fullerton Extension, San Francisco
Advance Health Care Directives and End of Life Decisions
2004
California State University Fullerton Extension, San Francisco
Advance Health Care Directives and End of Life Decisions
Publications
2009
Continuing Education of the Bar
Domestic Partnership
2008
Continuing Education of the Bar
Domestic Partnership
2005
Estates & Trusts Law Flash
The Importance of Health Care Decisions - Lessons Learned From Terri Schiavo
2005
Continuing Education of the Bar
Domestic Partnership
1991
Continuing Education of the Bar
Durable Power of Attorney Handbook
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