Marin Bradshaw and Ben Schwefel have both been named to the Daily Journal’s 2026 list of Top Estate and Wealth Management Lawyers, and are profiled in the publication’s special supplement on leading California practitioners in estate planning, trust administration and probate.
Marin’s profile covers litigation to recover more than $500,000 in trust assets that a co-trustee had transferred into a company he controlled. She obtained a judgment requiring the funds to be returned along with double damages under Probate Code section 859, and stayed with the client through enforcement, including the sale of trust-owned commercial property. It also covers her planning work for the owner of multiple professional practice businesses whose estate exceeded $100 million and who had no comprehensive plan in place.
Ben’s profile highlights a trial victory in a matter involving a forged revocable transfer-on-death deed, where he prevailed for his client, secured double damages under section 859, defeated a later effort to unwind the result and obtained an award of attorneys’ fees. It also covers his wealth-transfer counsel to families and business owners with taxable estates in the hundreds of millions. The supplement carries his article on the Boyajian decision and why the Legislature should change California’s law on the revocation of wills.
Marin and Ben are California State Bar Certified Specialists in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, and the work described in these profiles is the kind our clients rely on us for when the stakes are real and the family dynamics are complicated.
Congratulations to both of them.