James Edward Berge

James E. Berge is the founding attorney and managing partner of the Law Offices of Berge & Berge, Trust and Estate Planning Specialists, in San Jose. Mr. Berge is a California State Bar certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law. In private practice since 1992 and primarily serving the San Francisco South Bay Area community, he has represented well over 5,000 individual clients in the following matters: simple and advanced tax and estate planning; trust and estate administration, including probate and conservatorship; disability and special needs planning, asset protection planning; property, income, gift and estate taxation; and charitable gift planning.

Mr. Berge received his B.S.C. (Accounting) magna cum laude in 1981 from Santa Clara University School of Business, his J.D. cum laude in 1986 from Santa Clara University School of Law, and his LL.M. (Taxation) magna cum laude in 1991 from Golden Gate University School of Law. He is an (inactive) California certified public accountant, and a member of various professional organizations, including the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Sections of the State Bar of California, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Silicon Valley Bar Association, and WealthCounsel, a national association of over 3500 estate planning attorneys who have come together to provide members with education, and technical and legal support, in an effort to provide their clients with state of the art estate planning documents for a wide range of estate planning strategies.