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JAMES A. BARRINGER
Of Counsel

James A. Barringer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio June 12, 1952 and was raised in Los Angeles. He received his Bachelors degree, with honors, from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1974, and his law degree in 1977 at the University of California Hastings College of Law. While at law school, he was Managing Editor of the Hastings Law Journal and was an Extern Law Clerk for Justice Stanley Mosk of the California Supreme Court. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1977.

Mr. Barringer has taught courses for lawyers on estate and closely held business planning, as well as estate and trust related litigation through the California State Bar and California Continuing Education of the Bar. He is certified by the California State Bar as a Specialist in Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law.

Mr. Barringer has been a speaker at the University of Southern California Probate and Trust Conference, October 1996; California State Bar, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section Fall 1995 statewide education program; and the Northern Trust Tenth Annual San Francisco Trust Forum, 1994.

He is the co-chair of the Litigation Subcommittee, Bar Association of San Francisco Section on Probate and Trust Law. He is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco Early Settlement Program. He has been a member of the California State Bar Probate and Trust Law Section Study Team on Community Property Issues, and the San Francisco Estate Planning Council.

Jim lives in Oakland, California.