About

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Sheppard Mullin’s Private Wealth and Fiduciary Litigation team provides comprehensive counsel to high-net-worth individuals, families, and fiduciaries—both inside and outside the courtroom. Our nationally recognized litigators handle complex disputes involving trusts, estates, conservatorships, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, investment mismanagement, will and trust contests, and financial elder abuse, including multi-jurisdictional and international matters. Beyond litigation, we advise clients on proactive strategies to prevent and resolve disputes efficiently during estate planning and estate administration.

Our Private Wealth Services group delivers holistic solutions for families with global assets, advising on sophisticated wealth structuring, family office formation, cross-border investments, co-investments, tax-efficient planning, and governance. We focus on clarity, flexibility, and multigenerational legacy planning, helping clients achieve their global wealth management objectives. By integrating robust fiduciary litigation capabilities with forward-thinking private wealth advisory services, Sheppard Mullin delivers seamless support to protect, preserve, and grow our clients’ wealth across generations.

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Private Wealth Disputes - California

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What the Team is Known For

Sheppard Mullin's expertise covers trusts and estate planning, including the structuring of high-value gifts, as well as representing clients in estate disputes and contested wills.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Adam F Streisand
Adam F Streisand
Star Individuals

Adam Streisand is a premier litigator sought after by high net worth clients for highly complex trust disputes. He is well known and highly regarded for his work in high-publicity cases.

I have been highly impressed with Adam Streisand's exceptional client service, which is marked by prompt communication and personalised attention that made me feel truly valued.

Adam Streisand is outstanding. He's a true expert in the space.

Adam is fantastic. He is solution-oriented, an excellent strategist and laser-focused on achieving his client's objectives.

Adam really is an incredible star at Sheppard. He is wildly and terrifyingly smart, creative, aggressive in all the right ways and open to feedback.

It is such a blessing to have Adam's representation by your side. It's hard to believe a lawyer of his vision and experience really still exists.

Nicholas van Brunt
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Nicholas van Brunt
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Nicholas van Brunt represents wealthy individuals in lengthy and complex trust disputes, estate administrations and conservatorships.

Nicholas is practical and solution-oriented.

Nicholas van Brunt offers excellent service and experience in sophisticated trust and family issues. He has the ability to see into the future.

Nancy Baldwin Reimann
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Nancy Baldwin Reimann
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Nancy Reimann is well versed in various areas of estate planning, including the preparation of trusts to facilitate the gifting of high-value assets.

Nancy Baldwin Reimann is an excellent attorney with great people skills.

Nancy is one of the best attorneys I have worked with. She is timely, knowledgeable, responsive and professional.

She is very technical and very commercially minded.

Jenny Hill Bratt
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Jenny Hill Bratt
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Jenny Hill Bratt is a well-regarded partner in the firm's San Diego office, known for her expertise in estate planning.

Jenny Hill Bratt makes herself available to address all questions in a timely manner, and she has a brilliant mind and knowledge of the legal issues at hand.

She takes very complex ideas and solutions and translates them into a language anyone can understand. In addition to this, she also has a really nice bedside manner - super professional yet confident.

Jenny is an amazing attorney, not only for her expertise, but also for how she and her team educates, communicates and interacts with clients and with the professionals on the client's team.

Matt Owens
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Matt Owens
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Matt Owens is an experienced attorney in trust and estate administration litigation.

As everyone says, 'Trust Matt.' I do! He is very easy to work with, very honest and reliable.

Matt is excellent. He's very knowledgeable and smart - very impressive.

Tomasene Knight
Tomasene Knight
Associates to watch

Tomasene Knight is an associate in the firm's San Francisco office. Knight assists ultra high net worth clients with trust disputes.

Tomasene Knight is a pleasure to work with.

She is relatively young but making a name for herself. She is very impressive.

Ranked Individuals at
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California

Private Wealth Disputes

Adam F Streisand
Adam F Streisand
Star Individuals
Nicholas Van Brunt
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Nicholas Van Brunt
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Band 1
Matt Owens
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Matt Owens
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Band 3
Tomasene Knight
Tomasene Knight
Associates to watch

California: Southern

Private Wealth Law

Nancy Baldwin Reimann
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Nancy Baldwin Reimann
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Band 2
Jenny Hill Bratt
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Jenny Hill Bratt
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Band 3

Members

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Adam F Streisand

Adam F Streisand

Head of Department

Amy McEvoy

Head of Department

Nicholas Van Brunt

Nicholas Van Brunt

Head of Department

Steven Braccini