Diedre Braverman

Current

• Founder & Mentor at Strategic Attorney LLC
• co-Founder at Academy of Special Needs Planners LLC
• Principal Attorney at Wachbrit Braverman PC

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Past

• Member at Wealth Counsel
• Guest at Provisors
• Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company

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Education

• Stanford University Law School
• University of California, Irvine

Recommended

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Connections

245 connections

Industry

Law Practice

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Company

Diedre Braverman’s Summary

Estate Planning Trust and Probate Attorney for over ten years.
Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. for three years.

Goal is to mentor just ten attorneys to outstanding success in estate planning or related practice areas, and to grow my own practice so that it can run without me during the times that I am in Boulder, CO, where I plan to build a special-needs focused practice.

Diedre Braverman’s Specialties:

Board-certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law

Diedre Braverman’s Experience

• Founder & Mentor

  Strategic Attorney LLC

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  August 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Providing one-on-one mentoring to ten estate planning attorneys nationwide in the three areas of professional development (legal technical skills), rain-making (sales & marketing), and practice management (law firm technology, profitability analysis and improvement, team-building, accounting and more). We provide this mentoring through weekly teleconferences that include goal setting based on our participants' life commitments, those important "must dos" that precede specific goals (such as "be a good parent" or "earn enough money to live well"). We supplement the coaching and goal setting and accountability with mailings, faxes and emails that include books, clippings, white-papers and articles that are relevant to each client's specific situation.

• co-Founder

  Academy of Special Needs Planners LLC

  (Legal Services industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  The Academy of Special Needs Planners is the largest national organization dedicated exclusively to the needs of attorneys who focus on planning for families with special needs. We have a consumer-oriented website at www.specialneedsanswers.com and an attorney-oriented website at www.specialneedsplanners.com.

• Principal Attorney

  Wachbrit Braverman PC

  (Law Practice industry)

  January 2000 — Present (10 years 2 months)

  Estate Planning, Trust Litigation, Probate, Wills, Revocable Living Trust, Asset Protection, Special Needs Planning, Children's Trusts, Medi-Cal Eligibility & Planning, Inheritor's Trusts, Limited Liability Companies, Powers of Attorney, Tax Planning, Family Limited Partnerships, Life Insurance Trusts, Retirement Trusts, Conservatorships, Limited Conservatorships, Guardianships, Trust, Estate and Probate Administration, and more.

• Member

  Wealth Counsel

  (Law Practice industry)

  2002 — 2009 (7 years )

• Guest

  Provisors

  (Law Practice industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Senior Associate

  McKinsey & Company

  (Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; McK; Management Consulting industry)

  September 1997 — August 2000 (3 years )

  Los Angeles

Diedre Braverman’s Education

• Stanford University Law School

  J.D. , Law , 1994 — 1997

  Activities and Societies:

  Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance,
  Federalist Society

• University of California, Irvine

  1992 — 1994

Additional Information

Diedre Braverman’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Company

Diedre Braverman’s Interests:

Trusts, Estates and Probate Planning and Litigation; Parenting; Long-distance Marriages; Off-roading; Thousand Oaks/Westlake Village, CA; Boulder, CO.

Diedre Braverman’s Groups:

Wealth Counsel
Entrepreneurial Edge
Provisors
UC Irvine Alumni
Stanford Alumni

•    ABA Friends
•    Stanford University Alumni
•    Estate Planner Legal Network
•    Stanford Law School
•    Women of Stanford Law
•    ProVisors
•    Probate Lawyers
•    Rainmaker Network
•    Lawyer Marketing | Grow your practice
•    Legal Tweeters
•    WealthCounsel, LLC
•    Academy of Special Needs Planners
•    (Friends of the) National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
•    Legal Marketing magazine
•    Women Business Owners Network - www.WBOnetwork.com
•    Linked: Women In Business

Diedre Braverman’s Honors:

Co-author, Special Needs Trusts: Planning, Drafting and Administration, treatise published by The Regents of the University of California

Co-author, Estate Planning Strategies: Collective Wisdom, Proven Techniques, published by Wealth Counsel, LLC

Co-author, All The Bunnies: Heartfelt Stories From Those Who Dealt With The Challenges and Joys of Persons With Special Needs, published by The Academy of Special Needs Planners, LLC

Diedre Braverman’s Contact Settings

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