Shane Barnard brings a personal approach to estate planning for individuals and families. She partners with her clients to help them tell their story in the most comfortable and approachable way.

Shane learned first hand what happens when her mother passed away in 2020 with an outdated will from 1985 that was never updated. Her mother had remarried and by the time she was diagnosed with dementia, it was too late to have those important conversations about her medical and financial wishes, or how she wanted to distribute her assets.

During a time when Shane was grieving the loss of her mother, she experienced a lot of confusion and conflict because she did not know her mother’s wishes. Shane is committed to working with families to ensure they never have to go through the experience she did.

Shane is a member of the Alameda County Bar Association and prior to transitioning into Estate Planning she was a practicing attorney on the San Francisco Juvenile Dependency Panel representing parents and children in the foster care system. She is a current board member San Francisco Foster Youth Fund and volunteers as a foster parent for puppies, (and foster failed with her rescue dog, Meatball), with Hopalong Animal Rescue.