Practice Areas

Business and Commercial

Securities

Real Estate

Taxation

Estate Planning and Administration

Education

J.D., Hastings College of the Law, 1973

Order of the Coif

Law Journal, 1971-74, Associate

Editor, 1972-73

B.A., California State University, Fullerton, 1970

Bar and Court Admissions

California State Bar

U.S. District Court for the Central Division of California

Other Professional Affiliations

Los Angeles County Bar Association (Member, Executive Committee, Taxation Section)

State Bar of California (Member, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Section)

American Bar Association (Corporate, Real Estate and Probate Sections)

Bill Christian joined the firm as a principal in 1989. Bill has worked for many years serving as a legal adviser for small businesses and individuals throughout the State of California, and has significant experience in personal estate planning, including business succession planning, entity selection and governance, planning to minimize taxes and related areas that significantly impact individuals and small businesses.

He is known in the legal field as a tax attorney with a broad range of experience in all areas of individual, corporate, partnership, estate tax planning and tax controversy work. His practice has placed particular emphasis on effective planning through entity selection, discount and liability planning, business, estate and corporate tax and business planning and individual tax planning matters. His client base includes a substantial number of individuals and closely held businesses. Specific areas of extensive expertise include: estate planning, wills, trusts and gift tax planning; probate; Subchapter S, partnership and LLC taxation and structure, corporate and partnership acquisitions, sales, structure and planning; reorganizations and recapitalizations; real estate (primarily acquisitions, exchanges, leasing, risk and liability planning). His own description is more concise: "I'm a small business and individual problem solver."

Bill is author of Subchapter S Taxation, published by Warren, Gorham & Lamont. He is a frequent lecturer in tax law, having lectured at the University of Southern California, the University of California at Los Angeles, Golden Gate University, California State University at Northridge and California State University at Fullerton. He is also a frequent speaker at accounting, legal and professional associations.

Bill has five children and spends time off from work with his children racing Mazda Miata sports cars with the Sports Car Club of America.