Biographies

Robert N. Grant is a founding partner in the firm of Grant & Gordon, LLP and has specialized in the area of estate planning and administration for over 41 years.

Mr. Grant is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University, 1967, and a graduate of Stanford Law School and Stanford Business School, 1972.

He is a member of the State Bar of California Trusts and Estates section, the Santa Clara County Bar Association, the San Mateo County Bar Association, the Palo Alto Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. Mr. Grant has been a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel since 1985. He maintains Martindale-Hubbell's A.V. rating, its highest rating for legal skills and ethics, and he has been consistently recognized by the Super Lawyers survey, a joint project of Law and Politics and the publishers of San Francisco magazine, from 2005 through 2014.

Mr. Grant has given numerous presentations on estate and tax planning including recent seminars and lectures to Stanford Business School, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Sand Hill Advisors Roundtable Discussions.

A former member of the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross, Mr. Grant was also an active member of the Palo Alto Area Chapter of the Red Cross since 1983. He received both the Henri Dunant Honor Award in 2005 and Lifetime Program Achievement Award in 1998. For many years, Mr. Grant has served on the Princeton Planned Giving Advisory Council. He received the Stanford Associates Governors Award for 2006-2007 for his volunteer work for the University. He has also been a member of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Professional Advisors Board (formerly Peninsula Community Foundation) from 1997 to the present.

Judith V. Gordon is a founding partner in the firm of Grant & Gordon, LLP and has specialized in trust and estate administration with an emphasis on tax planning opportunities and sophisticated tax strategies for over 35 years.

Ms. Gordon is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Florida, 1975, and a graduate of Georgetown Law School, 1978. She also received a Master's Degree in Taxation for New York University in 1981.

Ms. Gordon has been certified by the State Bar of California as a specialist in Probate, Estate Planning, and Trust Law since 1990.

She is a member of the State Bar of California Trusts and Estates section, the Santa Clara County Bar Association, the San Mateo County Bar Association, the Palo Alto Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. She maintains Martindale-Hubbell's A.V. rating, its highest rating for legal skills and ethics, and she has been consistently recognized by the Super Lawyers survey, a joint project of Law and Politics and the publishers of San Francisco magazine from 2005 through 2014.

Ms. Gordon served as chairperson of the Planned Giving Council at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital (the predecessor to Lucile Packard Foundation for Children) from 1994-1997 and is a member of Silicon Valley Community Foundation Planned Giving Council. She has given numerous presentations on trust and estate administration.

W. Martin Behn is an associate attorney in the firm of Grant & Gordon, LLP, and has been with the firm since 2012.

Mr. Behn is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley, 2008, with honors, and a graduate of Santa Clara Law School, 2012.

He is a member of the State Bar of California Trusts and Estates section, the San Mateo County Bar Association, the Silicon Valley Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Young Tax Lawyers of the California State Bar.