Paul Gordon Hoffman

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Paul is a partner in the private client and tax team at Withers. 

He practices in the areas of domestic and international tax, estate planning, trust administration and probate and charitable planning. He was a founding member of Hoffman, Sabban & Watenmaker, APC, where he practiced for over 40 years prior to joining Withers.

Paul has presented at prestigious conferences, including the American Bar Association Tax Section, AICPA Advanced Estate Planning Conference, USC Tax Institute, UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute, USC Probate and Trust Conference, Practicing Law Institute, California Continuing Education of the Bar and the NYU Tax Institute. He has also taught taxation at UCLA School of Law and taxation and gifts, wills and trusts at the USC Law Center.

Paul is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and the co-chair of the UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute. He is also a member of the Motion Picture and Television Tax Institute and is on the planning committee of the USC Trust and Estate Conference(formerly known as the USC Probate and Trust Conference). He is a former chairperson of the Tax Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Paul has been recognized three times as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers” in Southern California by Super Lawyers, and has been listed as a Super Lawyer every year since 2005. He was also recognized as “Top Tax Lawyer” in the metropolitan Los Angeles area by Best Lawyers in 2010.