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For over three decades, the attorneys in Frost Brown Todd’s Newport Beach office have served as trusted legal advisors to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and businesses with complicated entity structures, helping clients resolve their asset-related challenges and develop the right framework to achieve their specific wealth, estate, and succession planning goals.

 

 

Strengths

Frost Brown Todd’s Newport Beach office boasts notable depth and sophistication as it pertains to estate and wealth planning, trust administration, business succession planning, real estate matters, probate litigation, and other disputes involving the transfer of high-value assets, outstanding debts, and inheritance claims. In addition to representing company shareholders, trustees, and beneficiaries at the trial level and defending their results on appeal, our Newport-based attorneys have proven success negotiating and achieving favorable settlements through mediation, arbitration, and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) forums.

Recognized as thought leaders in wealth management, the attorneys in our Newport office have been featured on major news networks including CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News. This team is not only known for being knowledgeable and dependable counsel, but they invariably operate with the utmost care and professionalism when handling sensitive matters impacting their clients’ livelihoods, loved ones, and future descendants. Clients in the Newport Beach area benefit, furthermore, from access to Frost Brown Todd’s national, full-service platform and network of 600+ attorneys equipped to handle any legal issue, virtually anywhere in the world our clients do business.

 

Community

Given its concentrated service offering, prime coastal location, and industry connections, our Newport Beach office is unique, comprising attorneys who are well-known and well-networked in the region, with strong ties to the finance, real estate, and investment management industries. Also, with charitable giving as a core area of practice, the Newport team is philanthropically minded like many firm clients, playing an active role in numerous professional and civic organizations.

 

Meet the Team

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James Cunningham

Partner

Newport Beach, CA

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Nadeen Farra

Associate

Newport Beach, CA

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Holly Gilani

Partner

Newport Beach, CA

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Jillyn Hess-Verdon

Partner

Newport Beach, CA

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R. Kurt Ketchum

Partner

Newport Beach, CA

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Jeffrey J. Ogorek

Senior Associate

Newport Beach, CA

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Keith Van Dyke

Partner

Newport Beach, CA