TUFTS STEPHENSON & KASPER, LLP
235 MONTGOMERY STREET, SUITE 1035
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104
Telephone: 415-705-5300
Fax: 415-705-5301
URL: http://www.tsklaw.com

General Business Practice and Planning, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital Financing, Corporate Taxation, Securities Law Compliance, Estate Planning, Trusts and Estate Administration, Probate, Trusts and Estates Taxation, Non-profit Organizations.

ROBERT R. TUFTS, born New York, N.Y., March 13, 1934; admitted to bar, 1959, New York; 1960, California. Education: New York University (B.A., 1955) Harvard University (LL.B., 1958), Phi Beta Kappa. Consulting Editor and Author of two chapters of Drafting Agreements for the Sale of Businesses, Second Edition, 1988; author and co-author of various Supplements and updates from February 1990 to date; and author of Supplements to the First Edition from December 1975 through January 1986. Author: "The Taxable Merger," 7 Journal of Corporate Taxation 342, winter 1981; "Transfer of a Corporate Business to Another Corporation: Taxable Sale and Purchase of Stock or Assets," 3 Santa Clara Lawyer 43 Fall 1963. Secretary, Governor and Executive Committee member, San Francisco Symphony. Former Chairman, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. Former Chairman, Port of San Francisco Waterfront Plan Advisory Board. Member: Bar Association of San Francisco; New York State and American (Member, Sections on: Corporation, Banking and Business Law; Taxation) Bar Associations. (Certified Specialist, Taxation Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization). PRACTICE AREAS: Corporate Law; Business Law; Business Start-Ups; Mergers, Acquisitions and divestitures; Taxation; Securities.


CHARLES G. STEPHENSON, born San Francisco, California, May 18, 1935; admitted to bar, 1964, California, 1971, U.S. Tax Court. Education: University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 1957); Stanford University (LL.B., 1963). Phi Delta Phi. Member, Executive Committee, Tax Section, State Bar of California, 1975-1977; 1978-1981. Member, Advisory Board, UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Institute, 1978-1991. Academician, International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. (Certified Specialist, Taxation Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization). PRACTICE AREAS: Probate; Trusts and Estates; Estate Planning.


DEBRA L. KASPER, born Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, September 21 1952; admitted to bar, 1982, District of Columbia; 1986, California. Education: Duke University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1974); Georgetown University (J.D., cum laude, 1982). Law Clerk to the Honorable John W. Kern, III, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1982-1983. Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1983-1985. Member: Bar Association of San Francisco (Member, Probate and Trust Section); American Bar Association (Member, Section on: Real Property, Probate and Trust). PRACTICE AREAS: Probate; Trusts and Estates; Estate Planning.


SARAH M. KING, born Denver, Colorado, March 1, 1966; admitted to the bar in California and New York. Education: Allegheny College (B.A., 1988; Stanford University (J.D., 1996).  Law Clerk to the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson, Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1997-1998); Associate Attorney, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP (1998-2000); Director, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, LC (Director 2005-2008; Associate 2000-2005). Member: Bar Association of San Francisco; American Bar Association, the Marin Bar Association, Queen's Bench Bar Association. PRACTICE AREAS: Probate; Trusts and Estates; Estate Planning.

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  Updated: 01/12/2009