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Rogers joins Seyfarth Shaw as of counsel in L.A.

By Richard Binder

Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced the addition of trusts & estates lawyer John T. Rogers, Jr. to its Los Angeles office as of counsel.

Rogers specializes in trust, estate, and conservatorship administration and litigation. He also helps clients with estate planning, alternative dispute resolution and professional responsibility in trust and estate administration. He has served as an expert witness in a number of cases involving such issues as breach of fiduciary duty and attorney ethics and malpractice. He was previously a partner with Luce Forward. Rogers is certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization for estate planning, trust and probate law.

Rogers has participated in over three dozen seminars and conferences on trusts & estates law ranging in topics from ethics to fiduciary responsibility as well as litigation. He has also authored a number of articles on these topics. He is former chair of the Los Angeles Bar Association Trusts & Estates Section and past president of the Los Angeles Estate Planning Council.

Rogers received his law degree from UCLA School of Law and his B.S., with distinction, from Stanford University. He is admitted to the California Bar and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).