Sussan H. Shore joined the firm in 1980. She is certified by the California Board of Legal Specialization as a Specialist in Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Law. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for over ten years and has been honored as a "Super Lawyer" from 2004-2009 by Law & Politics, published by Los Angeles Magazine. Additionally, she was listed as one of the 50 female Super Lawyers in Los Angeles. She has been teaching a course in Estate Planning for UCLA Extension for more than twenty-three years. She is the co-author of "Outright Noncharitable Gifts" in California Will Drafting, Third Edition (California Continuing Education of the Bar). She is also the co-author of "Minimizing the Impact of the Ballooning QTIP" for the 2001 USC Institute on Federal Taxation.  Ms. Shore is the past Chairperson of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Trust & Estates Section and she has served as Chairwoman of the Probate, Trust & Estate Planning Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. She frequently speaks on various probate and estate planning subjects for various professional groups throughout the country, including USC Probate and Trust Conference, the California Society of CPA's Estate Planning Conference and the NYU Institute on Federal Taxation, and the USC Tax Institute. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the USC Probate & Trust Conference. Ms. Shore received her undergraduate degree from UCLA and is a graduate of Loyola University School of Law.