All three partners of Camp Rousseau Montgomery, Priscilla Camp, Srinoi G. Rousseau and Katherine A. Montgomery have been honored by designation as Northern California Super Lawyers. Priscilla Camp, the Senior Partner, has received this recognition for the past three years.
Super Lawyers are chosen by polling and peer evaluation, including 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Five percent of California lawyers are so chosen each year. The objective of the Super Lawyer process is to create a list that is useful to consumers of legal services.
PRISCILLA CAMP’S practice includes powers of attorney, probate, conservatorship, Medi-Cal eligibility for nursing home patients, capacity determinations, and trust administration.
She was Executive Director of Legal Assistance for Seniors and has served on the Boards of Legal Assistance for Seniors and Support Services for Seniors of Alameda County, as well as a number of other community organizations. She is a past President of Women Lawyers of Alameda County and a past Secretary of California Women Lawyers. A frequent speaker to Alzheimer Family Support Groups and other community groups throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, she also lectures to attorneys, doctors and judges, and is a founding member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Her column, The Senior Partner, has appeared in The Bulletin of the Alameda County Bar Association since 1991. She has chaired the Alameda County Bar Association’s Community Service Committee and the Elder Law and Conservatorship/Guardianship Committees of the Association’s Probate and Estate Planning Section, chaired the State Bar’s Legal Services Trust Fund Commission in 1994 and has served as a Settlement Conference Judge Pro Tem in the Probate Department.
She received the State Bar President’s Pro Bono Award for District 3 in 1990 and the Wiley M. Manual Pro Bono Services Award in 1999. She is a contributing author of three books by Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB): California Elder Law, 1993-2002; California Durable Powers of Attorney, 1996-2005; and Capacity and Undue Influence, 1999-2006. She has been included in the Northern California Super Lawyers list the past four years and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 by Legal Assistance for Seniors.
A 1977 graduate of Golden Gate University School of Law, she has an MS in Educational Psychology from the University of Kansas and is currently a student at Church Divinity School of the Pacific Episcopal Seminary in Berkeley.
SRINOI G. ROUSSEAU’s practice is in powers of attorney, probate, conservatorship (including limited conservatorships for the developmentally disabled), Medi-Cal eligibility for nursing home patients, and trust analysis and administration. She is the current Chair of the Public Information Committee and the past Chair of the Elder Law Committee of the Trusts & Estates Law Section of the Alameda County Bar Association. A member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Contra Costa Bar Association and the Asian American Bar Association, she is a past Chair and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Asian Community Mental Health Services.
She was a panelist for the 2005 and 2009 program Fundamentals of Elder Law Practice, the 2007 program Elder Law Practice produced by the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), and has given presentations on Limited Conservatorships at the Annual Multi-Ethnic Parents Conference held in Oakland in 2005 and 2008. Srinoi also presented The Conservatorship Process, Current Issues and Common Pitfalls Regarding Conservatorships, and Durable Powers of Attorney for Finance – Planning for Incapacity to professional and community groups in the Bay Area and was a panelist for the 2009 CEB programs Powers of Attorney and Health Care Directives. She was included in the Northern California Super Lawyers list the past two years and in 2009 contributed to the update of CEB’s Conservatorship Practice Guide.
Srinoi is a 1983 graduate of Santa Clara University’s School of Law. In addition to her law degree, Srinoi received her Masters in Business Administration from Santa Clara University. She has and an A.B. in Psychology from the University of Southern California.
Srinoi Rousseau is pro-nounced “See-Noy Roo-so”, click the triangle in the player below to hear the pronunciation:
KATHERINE A. MONTGOMERY emphasizes public benefits planning in her practice. This includes Medi-Cal advice for long-term care, advice for individuals on means-tested public benefits in receipt of inheritances or litigation proceeds, and special needs trusts. She prepares trusts and wills for single individuals and powers of attorney and administers conservatorships and probates of decedents’ estates. Kathy is the past chair of the Elder Law and Conservatorship Committees of the Alameda County Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates Section and she is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the State Bar of California’s Trusts and Estate’s Section. She has written articles on durable powers of attorney for Legal Assistance for Seniors and HICAP’s HICAPTIONS, has taught an elder law course at Cal State Hayward, and has given presentations on special needs trusts and general estate planning to various community groups.
Kathy has been included in the Northern California Super Lawyers list the past two years, and is a 1981 graduate of Hastings College of the Law.
CARRIE MOULTON’S practice is in probate, conservatorships, and trust administration. She is a member of the State Bar of California Trusts and Estates Section, the Alameda County Bar Association Trusts and Estates Section, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and Queen’s Bench. Carrie was a speaker at the Planning and Caring for Aging Loved Ones workshop sponsored by Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson in March 2008 and is a 2001 graduate from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. She also has a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Connecticut.
The four attorneys at Camp Rousseau Montgomery, LLP bring expertise, compassion and cost-consciousness to the practice of Elder Law in Oakland and the San Francisco Bay area of California.
Focusing on the traditional Elder Law areas of Medi-Cal advice, estate planning, probate, conservatorship/guardianship, and trust administration, the lawyers also serve the growing area of Special Needs Trusts for the disabled.
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