Ms. Herren is a litigator, patent attorney and experienced trial attorney whose practice focuses on managing complex assets, technology, digital assets and intellectual property (IP) in wealth and tax planning to litigation and licensing.

Ms. Herren’s experience includes high-value trust litigation and IP litigation in state and federal courts. Having served as in-house counsel, she values business ideals and advocates for early implementation of dispute avoidance and resolution strategies. She represents individuals and fiduciaries who manage unique assets – including IP, rights of publicity and cryptocurrencies. As a seasoned litigator, Ms. Herren views wealth planning as pre-conflict resolution. When litigation is the right choice, Ms. Herren is well versed in all aspects of state and federal trial practice, including representation before governing tax bodies.

An active member of the legal community, Ms. Herren is a member of the Trust and Estates Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association and Vice-Chair for the Alternative Dispute Resolution committee of the American Bar Association section of Real Property, Trust and Estate.  For many years, she was chair of the Litigation Section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association (CCCBA, 2016-2022).  Northern California Super Lawyers named her a Super Lawyer in 2023 and Rising Star from 2016 to 2020.

Ms. Herren writes and speaks regularly on topic of litigation, trusts & estates and cross-over issues with IP.  She is a chapter editor for CEB Trust and Probate Litigation and, for three years, she was a case alert author for the Trust and Estates Section of the California Lawyers Association.  She has spoken at legal and industry conferences across the county from San Francisco to Washington D.C., Austin to New York City.

Ms. Herren is a seasoned trial attorney, beginning her career in law as intellectual property trial attorney with a boutique litigation law firm and continuing as a private wealth litigator at a national law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before beginning her legal career, Ms. Herren was a rocket scientist who provided thermal engineering and hot fire test support for the main engines of the U.S. Space Shuttle.