Erin E. Norberg focuses her practice on estate planning and administration for individuals and families. Ms. Norberg advises and assists clients with respect to estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, trust formation and post-death administration, charitable planning, life insurance planning, intra-family transactions, multi-generational gifting, irrevocable and dynasty trust planning, transfer tax mitigation strategies, estate and gift tax return preparation, and probate court proceedings.
Ms. Norberg is a 1993 magna cum laude graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law, where she was a member of the San Diego Law Review, and a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
Education
- University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1993
-- San Diego Law Review - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, B.S., 1986
Experience
- Duane Morris LLP
- Special Counsel, 2022-present - DLA Piper LLP
- Of Counsel, 2000-2022 - Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
- Associate, 1995-1999 - Gray Cary Ames & Frye/Gray Cary Ware & Friedenrich
- Associate, 1993-1995
Professional Activities
- American Bar Association
- Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section The State Bar of California
- California Lawyers Association
- Trusts and Estates Section North County Estate Planning Council – San Diego
Civic and Charitable Activities
Planned Giving Advisory Council, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Selected Publications
Co-author, “The Basics and Beyond,” California Trusts and Estates Quarterly, Issue 4, 2012
Selected Speaking Engagements
Speaker, "Non-Tax Aspects of Charitable Giving," Estate Planning Council of San Diego, San Diego, 2019
Speaker, "Portability: Drafting Consideration, Preparation of Returns for Portability Election," 37th Annual UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute, Los Angeles, 2015
Panelist, "Recent Developments in Estate Planning and Administration," University of California Continuing Education of the Bar, San Diego, 2014
Panelist, "Recent Developments in Estate Planning and Administration," University of California Continuing Education of the Bar, San Diego, 2013
Panelist, "Planning for $10,000,000 Estates in 2012/Building Flexibility for 2012 and Beyond," North County Estate Planning Council, San Diego, 2012