Barr & Douds Attorneys has represented trustees, beneficiaries, heirs, and families in Northern California estate and trust matters for more than 20 years. Based in Danville, the firm combines litigation experience with estate planning and trust administration knowledge, giving its attorneys perspective from both sides of contested plans. Clients receive personalized guidance in sensitive inheritance disputes, conservatorship matters, and elder abuse cases. The firm also serves Mandarin-speaking clients through partner Graham D. Douds and native Mandarin-speaking legal assistant Alice Lee throughout complex disputes and planning decisions alike.
Barr & Douds Attorneys handles trust litigation, will contests, breach of fiduciary duty claims, trust accounting disputes, elder financial abuse matters, contested conservatorships, probate, estate planning, and trust administration. Its lawyers represent trustees, beneficiaries, heirs, executors, spouses, and families across Danville, Walnut Creek, San Ramon, and other Northern California communities. The team assists with challenges involving incapacity, undue influence, fraud, duress, forgery, trustee misconduct, disputed distributions, and demands for accountings, while also preparing and administering estate plans designed to reduce future conflict.
Barr & Douds Attorneys brings a substantial record of estate and trust work to each matter. Since 2007, the firm has handled more than 400 litigation clients, prepared more than 400 estate plans, and completed more than 200 trust administrations. Its attorneys have successfully litigated for and defended against will contests and trust disputes involving mental incapacity, undue influence, fraud, duress, and forgery. This experience supports a practical approach that combines negotiation, mediation, evidentiary hearings, and trial preparation when contested matters cannot be resolved informally.
Barr & Douds Attorneys combines its case experience with recognized professional credentials. Loren Barr has been a Northern California Super Lawyer every year since 2008 and has been certified by the State Bar of California as a Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law since 2004. Graham D. Douds was selected as a Northern California Rising Star from 2017 through 2023 and as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2024 and 2025.
