Kimberley Spears

Kimberley began her professional career in book publishing in New York and San Francisco before attending law school and receiving her J.D. from Berkeley Law, at the University of California, Berkeley. While there she earned the Moot Court Writing Award and the Prosser Award, and she served as Articles Editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. Kimberley began her legal career at Cooley, LLP, in Palo Alto, where she practiced technology transactions law, working with both large and small technology companies. She traded corporate clients for human ones in 2004, when she opened her own trusts and estates practice known as FamilyWise Estate Planning. There she worked closely with families to provide care and guidance through the estate planning and trust administration process.

Kimberley graduated cum laude, junior Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Irvine, where she received a B.A. in English.

Kimberley lives in San Francisco with her husband and is the mom of two young adult sons. When Kimberley is not in the office, you can find her spending time with her family and friends or walking the steep hills of San Francisco.