California license and practice

Michelle Domingo is admitted to practice law in California and is a member of the State Bar of California in good standing (State Bar of California #289462). Verify the current individual Bar record at apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/289462 before hiring an attorney.

Michelle “Mika” Domingo is the managing attorney of M.S. Domingo Law Group, P.C. in Walnut Creek. She represents clients across California in probate and trust litigation, probate administration, trust administration, and estate planning. She previously served as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General’s Office, where she handled constitutional law, torts, and civil rights (First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments) at the state, appellate, and federal levels, managing cases from inception to resolution. She then moved into private practice in probate, estate planning, and civil litigation. She also serves as a Commissioner on the San Francisco Assessment Appeals Board, which adjudicates property-tax disputes. She graduated with Honors from the University of California at Berkeley and earned her Juris Doctorate with Honors and Dean’s List Distinctions from John F. Kennedy University College of Law. She is admitted to the California Bar, the Ninth Circuit, and the Eastern District of California. She is serving a second term as President of the California Asian Pacific American Bar Association (Cal-APABA), the first Filipina to hold that position, and is the first Filipina President of California Women Lawyers (CWL), where she served 9 years on the board and chaired its Judicial Evaluations Committee for 8 of those years; she co-chaired CWL’s 2023 Annual Conference. She served 4 years on the State Bar of California’s Committee of Bar Examiners, is a past President of the Contra Costa County Bar Association Women’s Section and a former CCCBA Board Director and Executive Committee member, and chaired CCCBA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for 3 years. Her recognition includes Super Lawyer Rising Star and Super Lawyer, an Avvo “Superb” rating of 10 out of 10, the Justice James J. Marchiano Distinguished Service Award (CCCBA), the Outstanding Woman Lawyer Award (CCCBA Women’s Section), the Minority Bar Coalition Unity Award (California Women Lawyers), California Young Woman of the Year, San Francisco Young Woman of the Year, and the California Bar Foundation Public Interest Award.

Matters this legal field covers

Estate planning legal work may cover probate and trust litigation, probate administration, trust administration, and estate planning.

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