Beti Tsai Bergman
Trusted Counsel for Life and Legacy
Beti Tsai Bergman is the principal shareholder of the law firm, Peninsula Law, A Professional Law Corporation. Her firm specializes in probate, trusts, estates, conservatorships, and financial elder abuse. Ms. Bergman has extensive experience in representing conservators, trustees, and executors, as well as, heirs and beneficiaries in uncontested and contested trust and estate matters. Before specializing in probate, Ms. Bergman was a Deputy City Attorney for City of Los Angeles and was a business litigator in private practice.
Ms. Bergman is certified by the California Board of Legal Specialization in estate planning, trust and probate law and has earned a Master Advocate Designation from the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, where she returns as a faculty instructor for their annual Building Trial Skills Program at Loyola Law School. Ms. Bergman has also been named as a Southern California Super Lawyer, listed among the Super Lawyers Top Women in Southern California, named as a Top Attorney by Los Angeles Magazine, as a 10 Best Estate Planning Attorney by the American Institute of Legal Counsel, a Top 3 estate planning lawyer in Torrance by ThreeBestRated, and Peninsula Law has been selected for the 2018 Best of Torrance Award in the Local Business Category by the Torrance Award Program.
- University of California - Davis
- J.D. (1997) | Law
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- Honors: UC Davis Law Review
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- California State University - Long Beach
- M.S. (1993) | Applied Mathematics
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- Honors: Departmental Distinction
- Activities: Pre-Law Society; Math Students Association
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- University of California - Los Angeles
- B.S. (1988) | Applied Mathematics
- Activities: Pre-Law Society, Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
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- Founder and Principal Attorney
- Peninsula Law, a Professional Law Corporation
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- Deputy City Attorney
- Los Angeles City Attorney's Office
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- Estate and Incapacity Planning II
- CEB
- Presented program to attorneys seeking to be certified by the CA State Board of Legal Specialization in estate planning, trust, and probate law on the topics of retirement benefit planning, business succession planning, use of business entities, charitable planning, and gifts
- Probate Litigation 101: Nuts and Bolts”
- Pincus Professional Education
- Presented segments on statutory deadlines in estate and trust litigation proceedings, procedural aspects of petitions, motions, and ex parte applications, civil discovery procedures, capacity, and 850 petitions.
- Building Trial Skills, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- National Institute of Trial Advocacy (“NITA”),
- Faculty instructor for one-week trial skills workshop. Instructed attorneys on how to practice and perfect trial skills in trial advocacy, persuasion, and communication. Held in realistic trial setting where participants actively performed opening statements, closing arguments, direct and cross-examinations, impeachment, evidentiary foundations, voir dire, and a full jury trial.
- Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell Power Lunch Program
- Los Angeles Superior Court, Central, District
- Helped provide civic education, judicial mentorship, and exposure to the judicial branch for high school students from underserved communities. Participated in mentoring sessions with students, worked through legal educational exercises with students, and answered student questions about the practice of law.
- Protecting Yourself, Your Assets, and Your Relationships
- Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Professional Advisory Council
- Speaker for seminar to educate the public on how elder abuse can happen, how to recognize and address it, and what type of legal protetions you can put in place to try to prevent it.
- Certified Specialist - Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law
- State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization
- Super Lawyer
- Super Lawyers
- Super Lawyer
- Super Lawyers
- Top 3 Estate Planning Lawyers
- Three Best Rated
- Named as a Top 3 Estate Planning Lawyer by ThreeBestRated.
- Best of Torrance Award
- Torrance Award Program
- Selected for the 2018 Best of Torrance Award in the Local Business Category by the Torrance Award Program.
- 10 Best Estate Planning Attorney
- American Institute of Legal Counsel
- Named as a 10 Best Estate Planning Attorney by the American Institute of Legal Counsel.
- Los Angeles County Superior Court
- Judge Pro Tem
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- Los Angeles Superior Court
- Probate Court Settlement Officer
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- Torrance Memorial Medical Center
- Professional Advisory Council
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- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Trust & Estates Executive Committee
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- Activities: Chair, Advisory Committee for Motion to Expand LPS & Probate Conservatorships
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- NITA (National Institute of Trial Advocacy)
- Faculty Teacher
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- South Bay Inn of Court
- Member
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- Los Angeles County Superior Court
- Probate Court-Appointed Counsel Panel
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- Asian Pacific Women Lawyers’ Alliance
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- Activities: Immediate Past-President & MCLE Chair - 2019
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- California State Bar # 190767
- Member
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- Bench-Bar Coalition
- Member-at-Large
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- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- LRS Advisory Committee
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- South Bay Bar Association
- Probate Co-Chair
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- Los Angeles County Superior Court
- Volunteer Mediator
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- Probate Court Guardianship Clinic
- Volunteer
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- Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association
- Past President, Board of Governors, Chair, Trial Skills Workshop
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- LACBA iTAP and TAP (Trial Advocacy Project)
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- UCLA Asian Pacific Alumni
- Board of Directors
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- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 190767
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- Credit Cards Accepted
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Contingent Fees
Taking cases on contingency will depend on the nature of the case and the value of the client's interest in the estate.
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- English: Spoken, Written
- Website
- Peninsula Law