John Scheerer

John Scheerer

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John Scheerer focuses his practice exclusively on trusts, estates, and conservatorship litigation. He has successfully handled a variety of matters before the Probate Department of the Superior Court. He has also handled appeals in the California Court of Appeal, resulting in multiple successful appellate decisions.

Mr. Scheerer represents beneficiaries, trustees, professional fiduciaries, and non-profit institutions such as national universities. He balances clever advocacy with an unbiased and realistic assessment of each of his client’s cases in order to provide the most cost-effective favorable outcome.

Representative examples of Mr. Scheerer’s practice include prosecuting and defending will and trust contests, defending creditor’s claims in decedents’ trusts or estates, defending conservatorship proceedings, and prosecuting and defending breach of fiduciary duty and surcharge claims against trustees.

Most recently, Mr. Scheerer was successful in achieving the following results for clients:

  • Obtained terminating sanctions in addition to demurrers sustained without leave to amend against a disgruntled relative of his client, a trustee of a trust holding substantial assets.
  • Obtained a dismissal in subsequent related conservatorship litigation.
  • Obtained an affirmance in favor of his clients, both trustee and beneficiaries of a trust, after an extensive appellate process, which included Mr. Scheerer’s oral advocacy in the California Court of Appeal.

Mr. Scheerer obtained his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, where he attended on a full merit scholarship and where he was elected to the Order of the Coif as well as received the Dean’s Award for the highest grade in Wills and Trusts. Mr. Scheerer also served on the UCLA Law Review as Associate Editor. He received his B.A. degree from UCLA, summa cum laude. Mr. Scheerer currently serves as Member at Large for the Beverly Hills Estate Planning Council.

Prior to joining Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise, Mr. Scheerer was a Litigation Associate at Hueston Hennigan LLP, and previously at Irell and Manella LLP, practicing in complex commercial litigation and serving as counsel in high profile civil suits.

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Areas of Practice

  • Trusts and Estates Litigation

Bar Admissions

  • California

Professional Associations & Memberships

  • Beverly Hill Estate Planning Council, Member at Large, 2023 to Present

Education

  • University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, Los Angeles, California
    • J.D. - 2014
  • University of California, Los Angeles, California
    • B.A. - 2010
    • Honors: summa cum laude
    • Major: Political Science

Honors & Awards

  • Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2023 – 2024
  • Best Lawyers, 2024

Past Employment Positions

  • Hueston Hennigan LLP, Litigation Associate
  • Irell & Manella LLP, Litigation Associate
  • California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Summer Law Clerk at the Criminal Appeals, Writs, and Trials Section, Los Angeles, CA