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Jun. 8, 2026

How Sacks Glazier is shaping California trust and estate law

Over 25 years, Sacks Glazier evolved from a small Los Angeles boutique into one of California's most influential trust and estate litigation firms, helping shape probate law through landmark appellate cases, bar leadership, judicial education and national policy work.

How Sacks Glazier is shaping California trust and estate law
From left: Terrence M. Franklin, Margaret G. Lodise, Robert N. Sacks, John Scheerer, Matthew W. McMurtrey

When Sacks, Glazier, Franklin, Lodise, McMurtrey & Scheerer LLP launched 25 years ago, trusts and estates litigation was still emerging as a distinct legal specialty.

Probate work had long been associated primarily with estate planning and administration. But the lawyers who founded the Los Angeles boutique saw the field changing -- driven by increasingly complex wealth transfers, aging populations, evolving family structures and growing disputes over fiduciary dut... (continued)

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