Linda S. Durston is an attorney in private practice in Berkeley, California. Her practice areas are estate planning, with an emphasis in public benefits and special needs trust planning and administration, and conservatorships and guardianships. Ms. Durston formerly practiced Social Security disability law at a not-for-profit agency in Richmond, California.
Ms. Durston is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, Academy of Special Needs Planners, the Alameda County Bar Association, the Berkeley-Albany Bar Association, and the Contra Costa County Bar Association. She is past secretary of the Northern California Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
Ms. Durston is a contributing author for the University of California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) treatise, California Conservatorship Practice. She is a contributing author and consultant for CEBs publication, Special Needs Trusts Planning, Drafting and Administration, which received a 2008 award for Outstanding Achievement from the Association for Continuing Legal Education. She coauthored a chapter on public benefits for the AIDS Legal Referral Panels AIDS Law Manual, 2004 Fourth Edition. She is principal author with Linda G. Mills of The Rhetoric, Politics, and Therapeutics of Opening Statements in Social Security Disability Hearings, Yale Journal on Law and Feminism 8, 1:119-144, 1996. She is a frequent presenter to professional and community organizations on estate, special needs, and pubic benefits planning and administration.
Ms. Durston is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received an undergraduate and graduate degrees in Rhetoric, and where she lectured before entering the legal profession. She received her J.D. from New College of California School of Law in San Francisco.
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