Reed Smith Adds Carvalho to Trusts & Estates Practice

Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, has announced that Lisa Carvalho has joined its firmwide Trusts & Estates Practice. She will be resident in the firm’s Oakland office, effective immediately.

Ms. Carvalho was formerly a partner at Steefel, Levitt & Weiss in San Francisco. Her practice encompasses a broad range of fiduciary and commercial litigation, with a primary focus on trusts and estates litigation for institutional and individual fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and third-party claimants. She also has significant experience in employment litigation and counseling, real estate litigation and general commercial litigation.

Reed Smith’s trusts and estates practice represents both individuals and institutional trustees in trust and estate matters in the US and abroad.

Ms. Carvalho received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, and a J.D. from the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1992. She is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Barristers Club of San Francisco, the State Bar of California, and the American Bar Association.