Attorneys

Michael V. Vollmer

Of Counsel

(949) 794-4000
mvollmer@murtaughlaw.com

Mike is a certified specialist, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. He is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). His primary emphasis at all times has been in estate planning, probate law, trust administration, and federal and California gift tax, estate tax, income tax, and real property tax law.

Mike earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1966; served in the United States Army for three years, including a one year tour in Vietnam; and then earned his law degree (cum laude) from Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles (1972).

Mike has always been active in professional organizations that educate lawyers, paralegals, and the general public about the many facets of estate planning. He has served as the chair (and in other leadership positions) of the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Association’s Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section; the Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Orange County Bar Association; and the Orange Coast Estate Planning Council. Mike also serves on the Advisory Board of the UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Institute, and on the Planning Committee of the University of Southern California Probate & Trust Conference. In 1991 he served as an adjunct professor of Estate and Gift Taxation at Golden Gate University Graduate School of Taxation in Irvine, California. Mike has been an author, speaker and panelist on more than sixty professional educational programs. Mike has assisted in the drafting of California Probate Code legislation, and has appeared before California legislative committees.

On the personal side, Mike enjoys traveling, playing the piano, and assisting with his wife’s charitable activities.

Attorneys

Michael J. Grobaty

Of Counsel

(949) 794-4000
mgrobaty@murtaughlaw.com

After graduating from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, Michael has been a trial attorney in Orange County for thirty two years. He was the founding partner of a boutique litigation firm in Newport Beach. In just thirteen years after its founding, his firm was named as one of Benchmark Litigation’s top tier litigation firms in the United States, and was named of one of California’s “BEST LAW FIRMS” by US News & World Report.

Michael has tried over 50 civil cases in state and federal courts throughout California. His successful trial record has resulted in his being invited into the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), and has also resulted in his selection by Law and Politics Magazine as a “California Superlawyer” for fifteen years in a row. This is an honor bestowed upon the top 5% of all attorneys in California. He has also been featured in the Los Angeles Daily Journal for his outstanding trial results, and has been named as one of the “Top Attorneys in Orange County” by Orange Coast Magazine.

Michael's wide-ranging trial practice has resulted in his representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad variety of litigated cases involving employment related issues, complex business litigation, legal malpractice, probate and personal injury. Having represented parties to all sides of a dispute, Michael is sensitive to the needs and unique struggles faced by individuals who are up against large corporations and insurance companies. He is likewise sensitive to the difficult economic and business decisions faced by corporations and insurance companies when they are faced with the difficulties and challenges caused by unwanted litigation.

In addition to his active trial practice, Michael has recently devoted a portion of his practice to assisting parties with the mediation of their civil disputes. He has earned his certification for mediation from the Pepperdine University Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, one of the world’s foremost programs dedicated to mediating the litigated case.