Direct Dial: (510) 444-6800

Facsimile: (510) 835-6666

Practice Areas

• Trust & Estate

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1989
J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, 1981 B.A., summa cum laude, at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College

Licensed to Practice in

• California

Attorney Profile PDFs

• Dell'Osso, Monica

Firm News

• Burnham Brown Partner, Monica Dell’Osso, Featured as Co-Chair of the UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Institute

Practice Expertise

• Head of the Trust and Estate Planning Practice Group and a certified specialist in the field
• Practice involves estate planning, including sophisticated estate and gift tax planning, estate and trust administration, guardianships, conservatorships and contested matters in the estate, trust and guardianship/conservatorship areas
• Regularly prepares complex estate plans using, among other  techniques, insurance trusts, family limited partnerships, charitable remainder trusts and qualified personal residence trusts
• Handles numerous administration matters, including court supervised probate estates, post deaths and administration of trusts
• Writes and lectures on a wide range of topics relating to the trusts and estates field

Litigation

• Routinely represents clients in will and trust contests, heirship claims, surcharge actions against fiduciaries, contested conservatorships and other related litigation

Professional Associations

• Fellow and Regent, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Advisory Board, UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Institute, Member of State Bar of California, Alameda County Bar Association, past Chair, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section, San Francisco Bar Association, Estate Planning Trust and Probate Section
• Faculty member of the American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education - Presented on July 21, 2005 Making Waivers Work: Disclosure v. Intelligibility at The Renaissance Stanford Court in San Francisco

Publications

• Co-author of California Civil Practice:  Probate and Trust Proceedings (Bancroft-Whitney, 1993)Contributed to California Elder Law (CEB, 1993), Funding A Revocable Trust (CEB, 1992), Drafting California Irrevocable Trusts (CEB, 1997), California Estate Planning (CEB, 1996), California Transactions Forms – Estate Planning (West, 1999), and Estate Planning for Special Assets (CEB, 2005)

Special Recognition

• Ms. Dell'Osso was named among the San Francisco Business Times 2009 Best Lawyers in the Bay Area
• Certified Specialist – Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Law, State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization
• Ms. Dell'Osso was included in the 2010 and 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Trusts and Estates
• Ms. Dell'Osso was included in the 2012 list of Northern California’s Top "Super Lawyers" in the Estate Planning & Probate section
• Ms. Dell'Osso was included in the 2012 list of Northern California's Top 100 "Super Lawyers"
• Ms. Dell'Osso was included in the 2012 list of Northern California's Top 50 Women "Super Lawyers"