Katherine Kirst
Katherine Kirst
AttorneyUniversity of British Columbia, B.A., 2018
Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D., 2021, Emery Scholar
Katherine joined our firm as an associate attorney in 2025. Prior to joining the firm, Katherine practiced law in the Bay Area and Orange County and has 5 years of experience in the areas of estate planning, wealth planning, business planning, and associated tax issues. She is licensed to practice in both California and Massachusetts.
As an associate attorney, Katherine’s law practice focuses on providing advice to individuals, families, and fiduciaries regarding high net worth estate and succession planning, inter vivos wealth transfers, charitable planning, trust administration, and tax controversies. Katherine also advises fiduciaries and beneficiaries in trust and probate administration matters, with emphasis in complex administrations. Katherine’s goal is to balance effective tax planning alongside familial harmony and generational wealth preservation.
During law school, Katherine served as Community Service Chair for Women and Law Society and the Jewish Law Students Association; served as a Mentor for the Centre for Global Law and Policy; and volunteered with the SCU Law International Human Rights Clinic.
Katherine is fluent in Spanish and conversational in French and Italian. Outside of work, Katherine is an avid hockey fan (go Sharks!) and a voracious reader.
Testimonials
John Schroeder was brought on to work on my case with Samantha and they updated/collaborated with Noelle. Noelle, Samantha and John are all patient, direct and very personable. Their knowledge and professionalism are exceptional. NM Law was successful in achieving a Settlement Agreement under difficult circumstances amongst people with little trust in one another. Thankfully we did not have to bear the cost of going to trial, however, I have complete confidence that NM Law would have prevailed if we had.
I highly recommend NM Law. I look forward to working with them again, but this time to plan my estate.
I want to thank you and your staff for the courtesy extended to us during our family's pending emergency deadline.
Mr. O'Grady spoke to my brother and gave us his best recommendation regarding my father's estate.
It is really hard to speak, and even harder to "plan" generational wealth with a parent in terms of assets, intentions, and mortality, but it is a necessary conversation to have, if only to lessen the unfairness of life that eventually catches up to all of us.
Our family tried to bring justice to my father's death within this probate process and found no justice, this system must be changed, so that a fairness is inherit within this system and not just a scam—lots of hard lessons to be learned from a broken probate process.
In either case, thank you again for giving our family the attention and direction we sought. The adage is true, not all lawyers are the same. Looking forward to working with your office in the near future, as we don't want to repeat this experience with our Mom.
Gracias,
Abraham
We highly recommend NM Law for your estate planning needs.
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We dedicate pro bono time, volunteer services, and a percentage of our gross revenue to these organizations. In 2023, we sponsored a refugee family of five to come to the United States and start a new life.
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