team-member

Christopher Johnson

Pasadena, CA

Licensed for 27 years

Law Degree

Awards

Primary Practice Area

Estate Planning

Language

English

About

Chris Johnson serves clients in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties in trusts, wills and probate. He brings extensive experience in drafting estate plans for small to the largest estates, as well as years of reaching successful outcomes for clients in disputes involving wills, trusts or elder abuse. He is a Dean's Scholar graduate of Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California, earned his Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Wheaton College in 1991. Prior to his work at U.S. Trust as a Senior Vice President with ultra high net worth clients, he was a founding partner of Russakow | Ryan | Johnson, P.C. He also founded his own estate planning and probate practice in Pasadena, and worked as a civil litigation attorney for the Law Office of Errol Berk in Ventura. He has appeared on NBC-TV news and radio programs to discuss estate planning and probate issues, as well as interviews for local and national publications, and is a frequent lecturer regarding trust, probate and elder law issues. 

Practices Areas

Estate Planning

Probate

Elder Law

Language

English

Contact

527 South Lake AvenueSuite 105Pasadena, CA, 91101

Office: N/A

Website: N/A

Reviews

anonymous
May 29, 2021

Mr Johnson and his staff have assisted our family in estate planning. His entire organization is professional and easy to work with.

Christian
April 30, 2020

Chris Johnson is excellent. He created the Trust for my mother and stepdad. Every part of the process was professional, detailed and informative. Chris is trustworthy and very thorough in his work. I highly recommend him to anyone looking to create a Trust or anyone in Probate.

Mark Stebbins
March 2, 2017

I hired Chris to create my father-in-law's trust. He has terminal cancer and wanted to make sure his daughters were taken care of when he passed. Chris went above and beyond not only with my father-in-law but with me (his power of attorney) in answering all of our questions thoroughly and compassionately. We had A LOT of questions. Chris demonstrated a deep knowledge of trusts, wills and the probate process. His advice has proven invaluable and I truly can't recommend him enough. If there were an option for 10 stars I would happily give it to him.

Paula
January 10, 2017

Mr. Johnson has handled a few probate matters and Heggstad Petitions for our office. They were all handled in a professional and timely manner, and we were well informed throughout each proceeding. I would highly recommend Mr. Johnson for any estate planning/trust/probate matter.

Ivan
January 28, 2016

I hired this Christopher B. Johnson on Sept 18, 2014 to simply transfer property over to my name using Prop 58 to prevent reassessment. Attorney did not fill out the necessary documents and all properties got reassessed. The LA county assessor's office stated he did NOT return their call so they were forced to reassess and they claimed that this was the fault of someone at his office. My case is still going on and it's been almost 1-1/2 years. This attorney misses scheduled appointments, does not return calls and is never available. In spite of what's happened, he still won't return my calls and has missed the last scheduled phone appointment.

anonymous
May 29, 2021

Mr Johnson and his staff have assisted our family in estate planning. His entire organization is professional and easy to work with.

Christian
April 30, 2020

Chris Johnson is excellent. He created the Trust for my mother and stepdad. Every part of the process was professional, detailed and informative. Chris is trustworthy and very thorough in his work. I highly recommend him to anyone looking to create a Trust or anyone in Probate.

Mark Stebbins
March 2, 2017

I hired Chris to create my father-in-law's trust. He has terminal cancer and wanted to make sure his daughters were taken care of when he passed. Chris went above and beyond not only with my father-in-law but with me (his power of attorney) in answering all of our questions thoroughly and compassionately. We had A LOT of questions. Chris demonstrated a deep knowledge of trusts, wills and the probate process. His advice has proven invaluable and I truly can't recommend him enough. If there were an option for 10 stars I would happily give it to him.

Paula
January 10, 2017

Mr. Johnson has handled a few probate matters and Heggstad Petitions for our office. They were all handled in a professional and timely manner, and we were well informed throughout each proceeding. I would highly recommend Mr. Johnson for any estate planning/trust/probate matter.

Ivan
January 28, 2016

I hired this Christopher B. Johnson on Sept 18, 2014 to simply transfer property over to my name using Prop 58 to prevent reassessment. Attorney did not fill out the necessary documents and all properties got reassessed. The LA county assessor's office stated he did NOT return their call so they were forced to reassess and they claimed that this was the fault of someone at his office. My case is still going on and it's been almost 1-1/2 years. This attorney misses scheduled appointments, does not return calls and is never available. In spite of what's happened, he still won't return my calls and has missed the last scheduled phone appointment.