Clark Byam's Email & Phone

Pasadena, California Partner phone 626-796-9123 fax 626-449-7357 email Email me Areas of Practice: Alternative Dispute Resolution Estate Planning Ethics & Professional Responsibility Probate & Estate Administration Trusts & Estates Litigation Bar Admissions: California, 1972 Education: University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California J.D. Honors: Thurston Society, Scholastic Honors Assn. Honors: American Jurisprudence Award Top Grade in Constitutional Law Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut B.A. Published Works: Chapter, Will Contests, California Trust and Probate Litigation, (Co-author), California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), 1999 "Employee Benefit Plans: Completing New Form 5301 Poses Some Knotty Problems", Journal of Taxation, November, 1975 "Professional Organization Retirement Plans: Excluding Service Employees", American Bar Association Journal, Tax Notes, June, 1980 Representative Cases: Estate of Anderson (56 Cal. App. 4th 235 1997) Classes/Seminars Taught: Frequent Speaker for CEB Courses For the Past Fifteen Years, Primarily on the Topics of Probate and Trust Litigation, Ethical Issues in Estate Planning and Contested Conservatorship Matters., Speaker at Various Events Including Bar Association Meetings, Accounting Association and Paralegal Association Meetings., "Prohibited Transfer Issues Under P.C. 21350", Los Angeles County Bar Association, February, 2001 Advanced Course of Studies, "Trust and Estate Litigation", CEB, May 1991, February 2001 & February 2004 "Conservatorship: Hot Topics and Problem Areas", CEB, November and December 1997 & May 2000 "Trustee Liability Issues in Choosing Investment Managers for Large Trusts," April 2006, LACBA Trust & Estate Section, Litigation Subsection "Private Trustees: Duties and Responsibilities", Speaker at the USC 33 Probate and Trust Annual Conference Honors and Awards: Listed, Best Lawyers in America, Trusts & Estates Professional Associations and Memberships: USNR, 1967 - 1969 Lieut. (J.G.) Pasadena Bar Association Member Los Angeles County Bar Association Member Los Angeles County Bar Association, Member, Executive Committee, 1995 - 1998 Section of Trust and Estate Los Angeles County Bar Association, Member, Executive Committee, 1999 - 2001 Section of Trust and Estate The State Bar of California Member The State Bar of California, Member, Executive Committee, 1988 - 1991 Section of Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate The State Bar of California, 1991 - 1994 Advisor, Section of Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate The State Bar of California, 1994 - 1998 Member, Committee on Professional Responsibility American Bar Association Member Cal Tech Associates Member American College of Trusts and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), 1991 Fellow American College of Trusts and Estate Counsel, 2000 - Present Member, Fiduciary Litigation Committee Annandale Golf Club Member Twilight Club Member