Theodore A. Hellman, Partner

Practice Areas/Industries
Estate Planning & Administration

Firm Leadership
Estate Planning & Administration, section head

Based in our San Francisco Office
415-995-5019 Direct Phone
415-541-9366 Fax
thellman@hansonbridgett.com
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Theodore A. Hellman has specialized in estate planning for over 30 years and is the head of the firm's Estate Planning & Administration Section. His practice includes estate planning, trust and probate administration, and planned charitable giving, with a particular focus on planning and drafting to achieve clients' personal estate planning and tax-savings objectives. For many clients, their only or initial contact with an attorney is for estate planning; as a result, in addition to estate planning and post-death administration, Ted and the others in the Estate Planning & Administration Section assist clients with the full range of issues that they encounter in their daily and business lives, including real and personal property, contract and business issues.

Ted frequently gives talks on estate planning and planned charitable giving techniques.

Presentations
Moderator, Planning and Drafting Revocable Trusts, California Continuing Education of the Bar

Publications

• Estate Tax and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Law, Estate Planning Alert (January 2010)
• "Estate and Transfer Tax Planning", Inside the Minds: Trusts and Estates Legal Strategies: Leading Lawyers on Drafting an Estate Plan, Implementing Clients' Objectives, and Understanding Tax Complications, Aspatore Books, ISBN: 9780314987006 (Second Printing, 2009)
• "Estate Planning and Transfer Tax Planning", chapter from Inside Legal Minds: Trust and Estate Law Legal Strategies, Aspatore Books (2007)
• "Gifts Of Real Property to Public Charities", The Marin Lawyer (October 2006)
• "QPRTs and GRATs", The Marin Lawyer (February 2005)
• "Advance Medical Directives Gain in Importance", Hanson Bridgett North Bay (September 2001)
• "Drafting California Irrevocable Inter Vivos Trusts Supplement 1984", Supplement 1986 (Cal. Continuing Education of the Bar)
• "Handling Surviving Spouse's Share of Marital Property", California Will Drafting Practice (Cal. Continuing Education of the Bar, 2nd ed., 1982; ch. 5)

Professional Affiliations
Marin County Bar Association (Estate Planning & Probate Section, Chair 2000-2005)
Bar Association of San Francisco (Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law Section, Chair 1991)
San Francisco Estate Planning Council
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation (Director, 1984-1991; Planned Giving Committee, 1985-present)
State Bar of California (Estate Planning and Trust Law Section)

Honors
Best Lawyers in America (2007, 2009 & 2010)
Northern California SuperLawyers, San Francisco Magazine [2006–2009 (Top 100)]
Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating

Education
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law (1974)
M.A., Georgetown University (1971)
B.A., Yale University (1968)

Admissions and Courts
State of California