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Prescott Cole Esq., California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
For the past eleven years, Prescott Cole has been a staff attorney for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) and is now its Senior Staff Attorney. Cole's duties include giving technical assistance and advocacy support to legal services programs in California and guidance to individuals and family members who have questions or concerns about long term care. He also provides legal assistance to victims of physical abuse, neglect or financial abuse. Prescott Cole has written legislation and testifies at Assembly and Senate hearings for laws to strengthen elder consumer protection. Cole is involved in the development of CANHR's elder law training program that trains attorneys, law enforcement, and consumer groups. Prescott received a B.A. degree in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State University and his law degree from JFK University. In 2003, he became the JFK University Law School Alumnus of the Year.
Shirley Hochhausen, Esq., CEO, Corporation for Fair Lending
Shirley Hochhausen, a public-interest attorney for more than twenty five years, has devoted the last ten years of her practice to combating predatory lending. She is CEO of the Corporation for Fair Lending, teaches at the University of San Francisco School of Law and helped found the Fair Lending Consortium, a group of Bay Area organizations working to eliminate predatory lending. Shirley also directs the Fair Lending Practice and Referral Service at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto and is presently litigating several predatory lending cases, among them Knox et al v. Ameriquest, a class action lawsuit that alleges discrimination by Ameriquest Mortgage against people of color, women, elders and limited-English-speaking borrowers.
Ms. Hochhausen was educated at Fordham University, Brooklyn Law School and University College, London. She began her legal career at Community Action for Legal Services in Brooklyn, N.Y., and later served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York, a Special Assistant United States Attorney and Counsel to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. She has taught at Stanford Law School and was the Managing Attorney of Stanford's Community Economic Development Clinic at the East Palo Alto Community Law Project.
Shirley is married to Richard A. Marcantonio, Managing Attorney at Public Advocates. They are the parents of two children: Ella, age 20 and Ari, age15.
Kim Hubbard, Esq., Orange County FAST, Santa Ana, CA
Kim R. Hubbard is an attorney who has been in practice for 26 years and who has specialized in Elder Law for the last 15 years. Ms. Hubbard chaired the Elder Law section of the Orange County Bar Association in 1995, was the President of that organization in 2004 and is a Past-Chair of the Orange County Bar Association's Delegation to the Conference of Delegates of the State Bar. She also serves on the board of CSP, Inc. (Community Service Programs), LASOC (Legal Aid Society of Orange County) and ASAAPS (American Society of Adult Abuse Professionals and Survivors). Ms. Hubbard is a founding member of the Orange County Hoarding Task Force and Chair of the OAS (Older Adult Services) sub-committee of the Orange County Mental Health Board. Ms. Hubbard teaches a portion of the Professional Fiduciary credentialing program at Cal State Fullerton and was on the Advisory board that established the program. Ms. Hubbard has been a frequent lecturer for the Orange County Bar Association, the Public Law Center and CEB. Her practice concentrates on conservatorship (probate and LPS), probate guardianships, small estate planning and vulnerable adult abuse. She became the Coordinator of the FAST (Financial Abuse Specialist Team) for Orange County through the Council on Aging in January 2003.
Dr. Bryan Kemp, Ph.D., Program in Geriatrics, University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA
Dr. Kemp obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Aging from the University of Southern California. He has worked in the fields of geriatrics, geriatric mental health and rehabilitation for over 30 years. He currently holds several related positions. At the University of California, Irvine he is Professor of Medicine and Psychology in the School of Medicine. One of his principal roles in this position is to serve as the medical psychologist for the UCI/Orange County Elder Abuse Forensics Center. Dr. Kemp evaluates referrals to the Forensics Center who are alleged victims of financial, sexual or physical abuse. He frequently lectures and trains other professionals on the topics of evaluating capacity, causes of vulnerability and elder financial abuse. He has published over 75 articles and reports, several on elder abuse, including one recently published with Laura Mosqueda, M.D. on an empirical framework for evaluating elder financial abuse. At Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center he is Director of Gerontology Outpatient Programs and Director of the federally-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with a Disability.
Louise Renne, Esq., The Public Law Group, Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP, San Francisco, CA
Louise H. Renne is a founding partner in Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP, which provides affirmative litigation and legal services to public sector entities. She formerly served as San Francisco City Attorney from 1986 to 2002, and is widely credited with reinventing the practice of municipal law. In addition to pioneering a nationally recognized affirmative litigation program, her model of the municipal law office cast public sector lawyers in a more activist role as legal problem solvers, inter-agency and community mediators, and neighborhood services providers.Her current cases include a class-action suit against several "Living Trust Mill" companies that put on "free" estate planning seminars or meetings in order to learn about the seniors' assets and manipulate them into purchasing inappropriate financial investments, namely annuities; a suit on behalf of a county and a municipal school district against several insurance brokers alleging that these brokers are the primary insurance brokers that serve California counties, schools, and cities and have used their positions of trust with their clients to obtain kick backs, improper fees, and benefits at the expense of their clients; and a civil rights class action suit against a flight operations business that handles private jet traffic at the San Francisco airport covering an array of civil rights violations including race and sex discrimination and retaliation against numerous African-American employees.Ms. Renne is active in many community, civic, and legal organizations. She earned her law degree at Columbia University.
Andrew Wallet, Esq., Hinojosa & Wallet, Los Angeles, CA
Andrew M. Wallet is a partner in the law firm of Hinojosa & Wallet. Mr. Wallet is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law, the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. Wallet specializes in trust, estate and conservatorship litigation and frequently acts as court appointed fiduciary. He is a member of the State Bar Executive Committee of theTrusts & Estates Section..
Debra Zimmerman, Esq., Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Los Angeles, CA
Debra Zimmerman graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley in 1991. She has been a legal services attorney all of her career, most recently joining the staff of Bet Tzedek Legal Services in 1999. Since 1996, Ms. Zimmerman has specialized in representing low-income seniors who are victims of home equity fraud, predatory lending and other financial abuses. She is a consultant with the Fiduciary Abuse Specialist Team of Southern California and also serves as a member of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Elders at Risk Task Force. Ms. Zimmerman has presented numerous trainings in the areas of elder abuse, predatory lending and real estate fraud for attorneys, the Adult Protection Services and Ombudsman programs, local law enforcement and for the banking industry.
Stuart Zimring, Esq., Law Offices of Stuart D. Zimring, North Hollywood, CA
Stuart D. Zimring is in private practice in North Hollywood, California where he concentrates in the areas of Elder Law, Estate and Life Planning, Special Needs Trusts and Probate, Conservatorship and Trust Litigation matters. He is certified as a specialist in Estate Planning, Probate and Trust law by the Board of Certification of the State Bar of California, and is co-Author (together with Donna Bashaw, CELA) of "Tax, Estate & Financial Planning for the Elderly - California Guide" published by Matthew-Bender. He graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 1971 with a J.D. degree and is admitted to practice in California, the U.S. District Court, Central and Northern Districts of California and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Zimring is a Fellow of both the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and the American College of Trust and Estate Counselors (ACTEC) and is the immediate President of NAELA. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of a number of non-profit organizations including the National Senior Citizens Law Center (NSCLC) and the Organization for the Needs of the Elderly (ONEgeneration), of which he is also a Past President.
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