Jeremy J Ofseyer

Contact Information

Phone	:	7603463355
Fax	:	7603467057
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Areas of Practice

Admitted to Practice Law

• 1992, New York; 2005, California

Education

College	:	University of North Carolina (BA, with highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa, Morehead Scholar 1986; PhD, Philosophy, concentration in Ethics & Jurisprudence, 1999); New York University, MA, Philosophy, 1993
Law School	:	Harvard Law School, JD, magna cum laude, 1990
Graduated	:	1990

Biographical Information

Mr. Ofseyer practices Trusts and Estates law, focusing on estate planning, administration, and litigation. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School (magna cum laude 1990), and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law, where he teaches Wills & Trusts and Estate Planning. Palm Springs Life magazine has selected him as one of its "Top Lawyers" for Estate Planning.

Mr. Ofseyer also has an M.A. in Philosophy, with a concentration in Ethics, from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, with a concentration in Ethics, from the University of North Carolina. He has taught Ethics at Harvard, N.Y.U., U.N.C., and U.C.L.A. He is on the panel of Court-appointed attorneys for Conservatorship cases in Riverside County Superior Court in Palm Springs, and a member of the Standing Committee on Ethics of the Trusts & Estates Section of the State Bar of California.

Mr. Ofseyer began his legal career in New York, as a Judicial Clerk at the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. He has years of litigation experience at some of New York's elite firms, including four years as a Senior Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, an eminent large firm based in Manhattan. He went on to start his own firm in Palm Desert, California in 2005, focusing on estate planning and probate matters, and formed a partnership with Mr. Nethery in 2008.

He is a former member of Desert Estates Planning Council, the Board of Directors of the Arthritis Foundation of the Desert, and the Board of Directors of the Jewish Family Service of the Desert. He is the son of Rabbi Jordan Ofseyer, formerly of Temple Isaiah in Palm Springs.