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Elizabeth T. Pierson, A Professional Corporation, provides counsel to individuals and families in estate planning matters and to trust and estate fiduciaries and beneficiaries on all matters pertaining to estates and trusts. Our litigation practice includes mediation and litigation in probate court and federal tax courts. We assist clients in planning their wealth transition, focusing on personal and tax issues, and draft the appropriate documents. These documents include trusts, entity formation documents, donative instruments, powers of attorneys, and Wills. We provide assistance to individual and corporate fiduciaries in post-mortem administration, family business matters, including tax advice and return preparation and defense, and advise beneficiaries as to their rights and of alternative means to pursue them. At our firm, we believe that premiere representation comes from an ability to view trust and estate issues from the perspectives of each of the parties planning their affairs, their fiduciaries, and their beneficiaries. We work closely with our clients’ other advisors in order to obtain efficient and effective results.

Elizabeth T. Pierson has practiced trust and estate law in Southern California for over 20 years. Following graduation from Duke University with a major in economics, and the University of Southern California Law Center, Ms. Pierson practiced with Anglea & Bannon, A Professional Corporation, a trusts and estates and tax boutique firm, for 12 years and with Hoffman Sabban & Watenmaker, one of the largest single-office trusts and estates and tax practices in California, for nine years. Ms. Pierson is past chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Taxation Section, and of its Estate and Gift Taxation sub-committee. As part of her work with that section, she participated several times in its annual trip to Washington to present proposals to tax officials at I.R.S., Treasury, and on Capitol Hill. She has been active in the Beverly Hills Bar Association Trusts and Estate Section Executive Committee, the California State Bar Estate Planning Law Advisory Committee, which is responsible for the State Bar process that approves qualified applicants as certified specialists in the trusts and estates field. She is currently active in the California State Bar Taxation Section Executive Committee.