INDIVIDUAL PROFILE

Erika Gasaway

High Net Worth 2026

Lathrop GPM

Ranked in 1 practice area

Private Wealth Disputes

California

1 year ranked

About

Provided by Lathrop GPM

High Net Worth

Practice Areas

Litigation

Trust & Estate Litigation

Real Estate & Development

Financial Services

Private Client Services

Career

Erika Gasaway represents and advises professional fiduciaries, trustees, beneficiaries, high-net-worth individuals and family offices on a range of trust and estate litigation matters. Erika has also litigated matters relating to real estate, financial institutions, corporations and other business entities, providing her clients a unique breadth and depth of knowledge necessary for complex disputes. Erika works closely with our premier trust administration and estate planning attorneys to bring full high-level experience to clients.

Erika represents clients in trust and estate disputes involving the following:

Trust contests including undue influence, lack of capacity, forgery and lack of due execution

Disputes over trustee accountings, fiduciary duties, breach of trust and actions for suspending or removing trustees

Disputes over ownership of trust property pursuant Probate Code section 850

Financial elder abuse

Real estate matters including unlawful detainers, quiet title actions, partitions and easements

Corporate matters including fiduciary and shareholder duties and bequests of ownership interests

Experience

Prevailed in a trial on undue influence claims brought against beneficiaries who received millions of dollars worth of intervivos and testamentary gifts of real property and business assets from the decedents.

First chaired a bench trial in which dispositive motions in limine were granted, resulting in a multi million dollar judgment for the Plaintiff.

Successfully obtained a permanent restraining order and a full award of attorney’s fees after an evidentiary hearing that spanned several months on behalf of an ailing elderly client who was being targeted for elder abuse.

Obtained a judgment after trial for millions of dollars in mesne profits generated by a commercial property after the trustee was found to have breached his fiduciary duty and unduly influenced the settlors of the trust, which also resulted in quieting title in favor of clients.

Key sectors

Financial InvestorsFamily Offices and High Net Worth

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers High Net Worth

Private Wealth Disputes - California

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Erika Gasaway is a private wealth disputes specialist within the Lathrop GPM team. She advises individual and institutional trustees and beneficiaries in high value trust and estate litigation.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

She is a very knowledgeable litigator with top rate courtroom skills. She has wonderful interpersonal skills too.
Private Wealth DisputesChambers High Net Worth
Erika is very knowledgeable and has excellent communication and writing skills.
Private Wealth DisputesChambers High Net Worth
Erkia is a very good litigator. She is tenacious, detailed and a good listener too.
Private Wealth DisputesChambers High Net Worth
Erika Gasaway has a unique mix of trust and estates skills along with litigation. She is an excellent, experienced attorney.
Private Wealth DisputesChambers High Net Worth