Top Rated Estate Planning & Probate Attorney in Palo Alto, CA

Alma Soongi Beck is a partner in the Trusts and Estates Group of Lakin Spears, LLP, and is a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law with the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization.

Alma’s practice focuses on estate planning and administration, with particular experience working with same-sex and unmarried couples, Medi-Cal and long-term care planning, IRA inheritance trusts, and special needs trusts.

Alma conducts public and private workshops on a variety of estate planning topics such as marriage, domestic partnership, estate planning and property issues for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) individuals, couples and families, as well as Medi-Cal, long-term care and IRA Inheritance Trust planning.

In recent years, she has conducted public programs for the San Mateo County Law Library, San Mateo County Pride Initiative, Our Family Coalition (for LGBT parents and families), Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA), Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community (APIQWTC), Openhouse (for LGBT Seniors), the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), and the Horizons Foundation.

Alma has served on the board of Transgender Law Center, Our Family Coalition, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF), and the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California (KABA-NC).

Alma graduated law school from Georgetown University in 1998, and has an LL.M. in Taxation from Golden Gate Law School from 2004.  For college, she graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in American Studies (Ethnic Studies concentration), and for high school, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (1988).