Ariel G. Siner

Practice Overview

Ariel G. Siner is an associate in the firm’s Estates and Trusts Group. Her practice centers around ensuring clients make informed and empowered decisions regarding their wealth transfers. She drafts estate plans, including complex tax planning for high-net worth individuals and their families if needed. Additionally, Ariel works with the Trust and Estate Litigation team to guide clients through the litigation process when estate plans—or the lack thereof—go bad. Ariel also has assisted the firm’s Corporate Group in entity formation and dissolution, and mergers and acquisitions.

Ariel frequently speaks to groups including the National Association of Realtors and U.C. Berkeley Extension courses on topics such as basic estate planning, trustee removal, entity type and selection, and will and trust contests.

Ariel is a graduate of Santa Clara University School of Law where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Santa Clara Law Review and served as President of Women & Law. She is fluent in French, and conversational in German and Italian. She enjoys writing academic, legal, and fictional works, and she published a novel through Amazon in 2014.

Practice Areas

• Estates and Trusts
• Trust and Estate Litigation

Education

• J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law
• B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology and Art History

Admissions

• California
• Central District of California