Pete grew up in Oklahoma and obtained his BSE in Civil Engineering at Princeton University. He received his J.D in 1989 from Georgetown Law Center and returned to the Bay Area, where he'd previously worked at Hewlett Packard, to practice law. Pete has practiced law in California's state and federal courts since 1989. Prior to opening Shearer Law Offices in 1998 to concentrate on employment, real estate, and intellectual property law, he was an associate with reputable firms including Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati and Cooley, Godward (now Cooley LLP) in Palo Alto. He and former colleague Andrew Pierce merged firms to form Pierce & Shearer LLP in 2001. Pete also had worked with the Special Masters of Griffiths and Castle on complex real estate matters. Since 1998, Pete has guest lectured on legal issues at both U.C. Berkeley and Cañada College. Pete resides in San Mateo and is a long time soccer coach, theater performer, and avid baseball fan.

Paul J. Barulich is the founder, Shareholder, and Director at Barulich Dugoni & Suttmann Law Group, Inc. Mr. Barulich's law practice focuses on estate planning clients with high net worth, business owners, and people with significant financial interests in high-tech, wholly-owned and start-up companies. Mr. Barulich specializes in representing individual and corporate executors and trustees, and conservators in administrations of estates in contested and non-contested matters.

Cynthia Cho is the founder of the CC Law Group and its principal attorney.Cynthia has built her reputation as a highly successful attorney by being not only an excellent lawyer, but also a hands-on and compassionate advocate for her clients. She does not confine herself to consultations and conference room strategies, but is a highly experienced courtroom lawyer as well, championing her clients' cases from start to finish, as she guides them through the often-overwhelming maze of the ever-changing legal process.Cynthia has been practicing law in the Alameda/Contra Costa/Santa Clara/San Mateo Counties area for over 21 years and is well known and respected within the local legal community. And as a local attorney, she is intimately familiar not only with State and local laws, but the inner-workings of the local judicial system, and the legal clerks, lawyers and judges that make the system work.Cynthia is multi-lingual, and together with her CC Law Group staff can assist you in English and Korean. Cynthia is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley (1989) and received her Law Degree from the University of San Francisco Law School in 1993. She was admitted to the California Bar in 1994.Cynthia is also listed in Who's Who, and is a current and former member of the following organizations:Silicon Valley Bar Association (Member, Family Law and Estate Planning Sections)Alameda County Bar Association (Member, Family Law and Estate Planning Sections)State Bar of CaliforniaAmerican Association for Justice (AAJ)America Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)Asian American Bar AssociationInternational Association of Korean LawyersKorean Bar AssociationU.C. Alumni AssociationKorean East Bay Chamber of CommerceNorth Silicon Valley Chamber of CommerceNewark Chamber of CommerceNational Association of Female Executives

Marc L. Shea graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1979. He was formerly associated with Law Offices of Lester G. Sachs, where he practiced general civil law, with an emphasis in mechanics lien law (1979-1982) and then as a partner with Popelka, Allard, McCowan & Jones (“PAMJ”) and Popelka, Allard, McCowan & Bondonno (“PAMB”) (1982 to 2006). Shea & McIntyre is the successor firm to PAMB.

Wade Litigation has a proven track record of successfully representing clients in a manner that gets winning results, and has caused the firm to become the recipient of numerous awards. The firm was named 2022 Most Outstanding Probate Litigation Firm by Acquisition International and The top business litigation law firm in the state in 2021.