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Dana Green is an Estate Planning/Probate/Trust Administration and Elder Law attorney in North County, San Diego serving all of California. She was born in New York and was raised bi-coastally in New York and California. She received her B.A. in Finance and Business Economics with an emphasis in Spanish and French from Goucher College and her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Dana is admitted to the bar in three states: California (1993), New York (1987) and Connecticut (1987). In addition, she was the 2018 Winner of the San Diego FINE Magazine “Best Estate Planning Attorney” Award.
Dana has practiced in various fields of law over the years including Family Law, Insurance Defense Litigation and Real Estate Law before starting her own law firm in 2010. She is a trained Mediator (family law and civil) and continues to provide Family Law assistance doing Divorce Mediation, Pre- and Post-Nuptial Agreements, Marital Settlement Agreements and MSA Reviews for parties involved in a mediated divorce with other attorneys or mediators.
Her passion is educating people and providing peace of mind by preparing them for the unexpected.
As an Estate Planning attorney, she makes sure that her clients have a customized estate plan in place. Although she wants everyone in California to avoid probate, she does offer Probate Services for those who fail to plan. As an Elder Law attorney, she represents clients who have been subjected to Financial Elder Abuse or those who need Elder Law Planning to Qualify for Medi-Cal.
Dana has found a niche that helps all single adults with a very important and often overlooked need. Her Peace of Mind package© is for anyone over the age of 18 that is not married - be it never married, divorced, widowed, involved in a long term though unmarried relationship, LGBTQ+ or high school/college aged young adults.
Dana has always been involved in philanthropic endeavors. During law school, she worked in the Criminal Law Clinic (now known as The Innocence Project) under the tutelage of Barry Scheck, who became famous when he was part of OJ Simpson’s Defense Dream Team. She also worked in the Bet Tzedek Civil Litigation Clinic representing the elderly and individuals with disabilities who could not afford private counsel. She’s been involved with the San Diego Volunteer Lawyers’ Program and The Domestic Violence Prevention Clinic. She was a founding Board Member of and continued her service for 13 years at Connor’s Cause for Children, a non-profit organization that eases the burdens faced by families who have children with life-threatening illnesses. She has served on the Board of Directors of Milestone House, a non-profit that provides an innovative residential program for at-risk teenage foster girls, and of North County Women in Networking (NCWIN), an organization that provides scholarships to young women to help them afford college at California State University, San Marcos. And she currently serves as Secretary for the Rancho Santa Fe Business and Professional Women’s Association.
She is passionate about health and, considers herself a Wholistic Estate Planning Attorney. She incorporates “Health is Wealth” as part of her practice. She is a firm believer that although one must plan for an unexpected death or incapacity, once the planning is done, it is important to live a healthy lifestyle.