Kristin L. Yokomoto

MBA, JD, LLM, TEP

Kristin Yokomoto helps families and business owners to preserve their assets through tax, generational wealth and business planning.  She is a partner at Albrecht & Barney in Irvine, California where she focuses on estate planning, business succession planning, trust administration and probate.  She has also focused on venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions and securities laws at Buchalter Nemer in San Francisco and Los Angeles.  Kristin is the Secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of STEP-Orange County.  She is a member of the STEP Mental Capacity Special Interest Group Committee and the Orange County Bar Association Professionalism and Ethics Committee.  Kristin is also a member of WealthCounsel, ElderCounsel and the Orange County Bar Association Trusts and Estates and Elder Law Sections.  She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. in Economics, the University of Arizona with an M.B.A., the University of Arizona School of Law with a J.D., where she was a member of the Arizona Law Review, the San Diego School of Law with an LL.M. in Taxation in 2000 and the Chapman University School of Law with an LL.M. in Taxation in 2009.  She enjoys writing and teaching on estate planning, trust administration and risk management issues.