Our office specializes in:
Probate, Conservatorship, Trust Court Proceedings, Non-Judicial Trust Administration, Estate Tax Returns, Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning, and Related Matters.

 

Donna DeMartini has over 17 years of experience as the probate examiner in Alameda County, three years as a senior paralegal with the firm of Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos and Rudy, LLP in San Francisco and as a paralegal with the Law Offices of James J. Philips in Pleasanton since November of 2003. She is a graduate from Ohlone College in Fremont, obtained her paralegal certificate from St. Mary's College in Moraga in 1982, has taken numerous continuing legal education classes in probate and tax matters, and has spoken at CJER's Continuing Judicial Studies Program and the Legal Secretaries, Incorporated Quarterly Conference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Beth Bochner is a graduate from California State University Hayward and earned a paralegal certificate from St. Mary's College in Moraga in 1989. She was a paralegal with the law firm of Fitzgerald, Abbott & Beardsley, LLP in Oakland for fourteen years before joining the Law Offices of James J. Phillips in Pleasanton in May 2008. Mary Beth has taken various continuing education courses from CEB, Alameda County Bar Association Estate Planning Group, San Francisco Paralegal Association and the Alameda County Legal Secretaries Association.