Jeremy J. Ofseyer
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Local: 760.346.3355
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Fax: 760.346.7057
74000 Country Club Drive, Suite H-1
Palm Desert, California 92260
Mr. Ofseyer practices Trusts and Estates law, focusing on estate planning, administration, and litigation. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School (magna cum laude 1990), and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law, where he teaches Wills & Trusts and Estate Planning. Palm Springs Life magazine has selected him as one of its "Top Lawyers" for Estate Planning.
Mr. Ofseyer also has an M.A. in Philosophy, with a concentration in Ethics, from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, with a concentration in Ethics, from the University of North Carolina. He has taught Ethics at Harvard, N.Y.U., U.N.C., and U.C.L.A.
Mr. Ofseyer is on the panel of Court-appointed attorneys for Conservatorship cases in Riverside County Superior Court in Palm Springs, and is a member of the Standing Committee on Ethics of the Trusts & Estates Section of the State Bar of California, and a member of the Desert Estate Planning Council.
Mr. Ofseyer began his legal career in New York, as a Judicial Clerk at the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. He has years of litigation experience at some of New York's elite firms, including four years as a Senior Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, an eminent large firm based in Manhattan. He went on to start his own firm in Palm Desert, California in 2005, focusing on estate planning and probate matters, and formed a partnership with Mr. Nethery in 2008.
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1990
magna cum laude
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1999
M.A., New York University, 1993
B.A., University of North Carolina, 1986
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
California, 2005New York, 1992
Professional & Bar Association Memberships
State Bar of California
Trusts & Estates Section; Trusts & Estates Section Ethics Committee
Desert Bar Association
Desert Estate Planning Council
Warren Slaughter-Richard Roemer Inn of Court