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Contact Information:
650-289-6420
jleblanc@lakinspears.com

Practice Areas:
Trusts and Estates

Education:
B.A., UC Santa Barbara, 1975
J.D., Hastings College of Law, 1982

Professional &
Community Affiliations:

Santa Clara County
Bar Association
Palo Alto Area
Bar Association
San Mateo County
Bar Association


 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joan A. LeBlanc

Joan A. LeBlanc is a partner in the Trusts & Estates Group and has practiced law since 1982. She is a Certified Specialist, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

Ms. LeBlanc practices exclusively in the areas of:

  • Estate Planning
  • Estate and Trust Administration

Ms. LeBlanc’s estate planning practice focuses on the drafting of Wills and revocable living trusts, for both married or unmarried couples and singles, that include testamentary transfers to irrevocable trusts for surviving spouses, qualified domestic trusts for non-citizen surviving spouses, and general succession planning for descendants. She also prepares various irrevocable trusts for both lifetime and testamentary transfers including life insurance trusts, charitable trusts, generation skipping trusts, and other irrevocable tax planned trusts.

Ms. LeBlanc’s estate and trust administration practice includes the handling of probate and other court supervised fiduciary proceedings, the administration of revocable and irrevocable trusts, and uncontested modification and reform of irrevocable trusts.

Prior to joining LAKIN SPEARS, Ms. LeBlanc was a partner at Aufmuth, Fox & LeBlanc, Palo Alto, for 10 years and prior to that, a partner with Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper) in Palo Alto.

Ms. LeBlanc served as Managing Partner of Lakin Spears from 2006 to 2008.

Ms. LeBlanc has a peer-review rating of AV ® Preeminent ™ by Martindale Hubbell. She has been named a Northern California "Super Lawyer" every year since 2006 and was named as one of the Northern California's "Top 50 Women Lawyers" across all practice areas in 2008.

Ms. LeBlanc is active in the Palo Alto Bar, Silicon Valley, and Santa Clara County Bar Associations.

A native of the Bay Area, Ms. LeBlanc is a member of the Stanford Golf Course. She also enjoys traveling.


 

 

 

 

 

 

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