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I was trained and started work right
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after law school at a large one of the
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largest and and I think the oldest firm
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in San Francisco the name of it was
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Pillsbury and I worked there for 13
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years and working there allowed me to
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have access to trusts and charitable
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planning that most lawyers never get to
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experience I got to open trust that had
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sealing wax and ribbon on them from the
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1920s I mean you just don’t see that
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anymore but these trusts were still in
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existence and still being administered
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you know for beneficiaries that the
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creator of the Trust had no idea you
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know had never met these people and we
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still create these trying of trust today
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there are most lawyers are reluctant to
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do these kind of trusts there’s less
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than 1% of the country that does trust
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the last four you know almost a hundred
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years here in California but almost all
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of my trusts do I’m not afraid of the of
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these extended trusts and I see how
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beneficial they are they are creditor
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protection for anyone that’s a
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beneficiary of that and so that
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experience those 13 years of that major
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law firm dealing with everyday very
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complicated all kinds of estate planning
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issues that prepared me for this office
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that I opened after that time and I came
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and opened this office on Sand Hill Road
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in Menlo Park which is now and has been
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for decades the epicenter of Silicon
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Valley with the clients at levels of
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expectation that they expect from
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lawyers and here I was you know coming
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in just opening an office like that
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people that came to me could be going to
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any law firm and yet they were coming to
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me and I owe that to my clients to make
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make them feel that they made the right
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choice to come to this law firm so those
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two professional experiences crafted my
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history to the point that I’m able to
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effectively draft documents
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in a way that very few lawyers have had
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training the lawyer training at
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Pillsbury was unlike any other it was
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very rigid and every word of those
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documents were studied and agonized over
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every process in the document of
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transitions within the document were
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evaluated by the litigation group and
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the risk management group wonderful
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experience but I would say one of the
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best levels of expertise I bring to my
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practice is being a mother and having
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four children they’re grown now but
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seeing the family dynamic from the
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inside out a marriage children all of
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that helps me be a better lawyer because
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I’m drafting these documents many times
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for clients who are concerned that
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they’re gonna be gone before the
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children are reaching majority and the
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issues they want in guiding the wealth
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or or shaping the future of the child so
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wealth doesn’t inhibit incentive or
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encouraging children in a philanthropic
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way all these issues because I’m a
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mother and I’ve and I’ve worked through
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all these issues myself I think that’s
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that’s helped just as much of all as all
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the lawyer training
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you
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Menlo Park, CA estates and probate lawyer Mary White talks about her background and experience and how it has prepared her for her current practice.
