SHIRLEY TAM

Shirley Tam is a lawyer serving San Jose and San Francisco, California who specializes in trust and estate planning, litigation and tax services, probate and trust administration, and Medi-Cal planning... How I came to choose to practice in the field of trusts and wills law was serendipitous. As a young attorney, I first practiced tax law. Although I enjoyed tax law, I was unhappy about my lack of client contact. There was little job satisfaction working day in and day out lowering the effective tax rate of large corporate entities. Instead, I wanted to help individual people in my law practice... Then, over a family dinner one night, my uncle casually asked me if I did anything with living trusts. The answer at the time was "no." He explained that he was in need of a trusts and wills attorney to help set up his estate plan, because he was very concerned about what would become of my young cousins if something were ever to happen to him. He asked me to recommend someone, since he..

Also known as: Shirley Tam, LLP

Primary location: San Jose United States