
Julie King
Estate Planning | Business Law
With 30+ years’ experience, Julie King practices law with the highest standards of ethics and professionalism. She is easy to speak with and talks in plain English (not legalese). Julie handles a wide variety of estate planning and business matters including: (1) ESTATE PLANNING - wills and trusts, health care directives, powers of attorney, special needs trusts, pet trusts, grant deeds and more; and (2) BUSINESS LAW - corporation/LLC/partnership formation, annual meeting minutes, corporate records, contracts, and employee training.
Julie served as in-house counsel to major international corporations, including Toshiba America, where she worked for 15 years and hired lawyers throughout the world. She has been a "client", so she understands clients' needs in a way many lawyers do not. Contact Julie today and see the difference!
Call or email today for a FREE initial consultation! (831) 275-1002 Julie@PierceKingLaw.com
- Univ of California at Los Angeles
- Undergraduate Degree
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- Loyola Law School
- Law Degree
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- Founding Attorney
- Pierce King, P.C., a Professional Law Corporation
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- BUSINESS LAW - Negotiating and drafting a variety of complex business contracts, including an international Private Cloud Infrastructure and Management Services Agreement and a Funding Agreement involving the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. - Forming C and S Corporations, LLCs and Partnerships, and drafting documents related thereto, such as Buy-Sell and Operating Agreements, Bylaws, Annual Meeting Minutes and Board Resolutions. ESTATE PLANNING - Drafting a variety of wills and trusts (including Revocable Living Trusts, Special Needs Trusts and Pet Trusts), Health Care Directives and Durable Powers of Attorney, as well as Grant Deeds and other documentation relating to funding trusts. - Counseling clients in Trust Administration matters - Preparing, filing and representing clients in Probate actions
- Director, Contracts and Intellectual Property
- CTB/McGraw-Hill LLC
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- Assistant General Counsel
- Toshiba America
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- Julie was an in-house counsel for Toshiba for 15 years and handled a wide variety of matters for the corporation. She helped the Human Resources Dept. with employment matters and policy drafting, the Sales Dept. with contracts, the Finance Dept. with guaranties, and anyone else in the company who needed assistance in any area of law. She would be honored to do the same for you. Call today!
- License to Practice Law
- California Bar Association
- BEST LAWYER IN MONTEREY COUNTY!
- Monterey Herald Reader's Poll
- BEST LAWYER IN MONTEREY COUNTY
- Monterey Herald Readers' Poll
- BEST LAWYER IN MONTEREY COUNTY
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- BEST LAW FIRM IN MONTEREY COUNTY
- Monterey Herald Readers' Poll
- Volunteer of the Year
- Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce
- IMPOWER (Businesswomen inspiring each other and helping our community)
- Vice President of the Board of Directors
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- Monterey County Bar Association
- Member
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- California State Bar  # 132813
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- Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce
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- Central Coast Human Resources Association
- Member of the Board of Directors
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- California
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- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Pierce King, P.C. bills hourly or charges a flat fee, depending on the type of matter.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Estate Planning
- Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Form Corporations, LLCs and Partnerships
- Business Transactions & Contracts
- Trusts, Wills, Powers of Attorney, Health Care Directives
- Real Estate Grant Deeds and Related Documentation
- English: Spoken, Written
- Q. Beneficiary seeking info from withholding executor, CA
- A: Here is some quick terminology and information that should help.
When someone has a standard Will, the person in charge of following the terms in the Will is called an "executor."
When someone has a trust, the person in charge of doing what the trust requires and distributing assets is called a "trustee."
Executors and trustees have similar jobs, but they are not the same.
[FYI: I usually capitalize the word Will to avoid confusion with the verb "will", but normally that word is not capitalized.]
When someone has a standard Will (the type of Will most people think of), that document will say who receives the deceased person's ... Read More
- Q. Is it legal for a son to execute a Power of Attorney without the elder's consent if a doctor claims incapacity?
- A: If a mentally incapacitated person has estate planning documents that were never finalized, signed and notarized BEFORE a physician declared the person incapacitated, then:
(1) The only estate planning documents that MIGHT be valid are documents that were signed, notarized, and in existence before the now-incapacitated person decided to make changes to their estate plan, unless those older documents were cancelled, voided, or invalidated.
(2) If there are no estate planning documents that the now-incapacitated person signed before being declared incapacitated, no one else can sign the unsigned draft documents. For example, if a Power of Attorney was prepared for Person ... Read More
- Q. California estate planning for sibling with no will.
- A: Anyone who wants to be sure their assets will go to a specific person or charity should contact an estate planning lawyer and set up an estate plan. Yes, it costs more than a normal grocery bill. But, when people do not plan, two things happen: (1) the assets will go to whomever the law says they will go -- even if the deceased person would not want that; and (2) the loved ones left behind are frequently forced to spend a MINIMUM of a year in court before they can inherit the assets -- and the legal fees for that court process are often 10 times higher than doing estate planning while alive! So, in the end, it is almost always less expensive to set up an estate plan than to force loved ones to ... Read More