In their article for The Recorder, Shareholders Andrew Verriere & Ryan Szczepanik discuss how California courts remain beleaguered by budgetary constraints. The courts lack the resources to process the large volume of trust and estate related matters. Even uncontested matters are being filed at rates exponentially higher than just a few years ago. Litigants have an alternative when facing these unavoidable delays: their right to refer matters to a private judge for resolution.
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Hartog, Baer & Hand (HBH) Principal Ryan J. Szczepanik has been elected as president of the East Bay Trust and Estate Lawyers (EBTEL). Effective Jan. 1, Szczepanik succeeds HBH Principal David D. Little in the role.
HBH congratulates Veronica Diaz, a first-year student at Santa Clara University School of Law, for being the first recipient of the firm’s inaugural Diversity Scholarship.
In their article for The Recorder, Shareholders Andrew Verriere & Ryan Szczepanik discuss how Ca[..]