Laurie Shigekuni & Associates - Los Angeles

Laurie Shigekuni graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989 and has been an active member of the California Bar since that time. In 1983, she received her undergraduate B.A. degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz with honors in Sociology, while also majoring in Biology. After spending six years in the area of civil litigation at a legal services organization in Oakland, Ms. Shigekuni started her own practice. She has focused in the area of wills, trusts, estate planning, probate, and trust administration since 1996, serving a diverse clientele in Northern and Southern California. Ms. Shigekuni has represented individual clients as well as groups of clients in both state and federal courts on a range of civil matters. She has trained law students and other attorneys in matters ranging from housing rights to earthquake recovery, and she has counseled hundreds of people about their legal rights. As a legal services attorney, she created a trilingual clinic that provided legal services in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese to the Asian American community of Oakland's Chinatown area, and she brought a lawsuit that improved the Oakland Housing Authority's responses to maintenance complaints by primarily African American tenants.