Recent and Proposed Developments in Conservatorship Law

Danielle is a senior attorney in the Firm's Trusts and Estates practice group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of trust and estate litigation, including contested trust and probate administration, and contested conservatorships. Danielle earned her J.D. with distinction from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and graduated as a member of the Roger J. Traynor Honor Society for academic achievement. While in law school, Danielle took courses in environmental law and intellectual property and obtained the Witkin Award for academic excellence in Patent Prosecution.

Mary deLeo is a Shareholder with the law firm of Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin in Sacramento, California. Her practice focuses on trust and estate litigation, estate planning, trust and estate administration, conservatorships, fiduciary representation, special needs trust planning and administration, planning for incapacity, Medi-Cal planning, and elder law. In addition to estate planning for both small and large-size estates, Mary has successfully represented clients in trust and probate litigation controversies, including trust and will contests, beneficiary/trustee disputes, fiduciary abuse claims, accounting issues, elder abuse claims, public benefit eligibility issues, and a wide variety of trust and probate litigation.

Mary is a member of the Trusts and Estates Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association, where she serves as Co-Chair of the Legislation Committee, Vice-Chair of the Incapacity Committee, and Co-Executive Editor of the Trusts and Estates Quarterly.