CAREERS
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO WORK HERE?
At RMO, we know talent when we see it—and reward it. Our entrepreneurial environment supports individual initiative, while recognizing the power of teamwork, and providing real legal experience and lots of client contact and case handling opportunities.
We value talented and caring professionals.
At RMO, we know talent when we see it—and reward it. Our entrepreneurial environment supports individual initiative, while recognizing the power of teamwork, and providing real legal experience and lots of client contact and case handling opportunities.
The impact you can make extends beyond the transformational role you will have on people’s lives. Your daily work with top-tier professionals helps you develop a meaningful, challenging and satisfying career that fits your professional goals and your family, and lifestyle values.
Academic and professional excellence define our team members, and we pride ourselves on being more than just very good at our jobs— we truly care about our colleagues and communities. The nature of our practice requires attorneys and staff with more than a great transcript and a desk filled with shiny awards. Empathy starts at home, and our offices are our “safe place” where nobody fears failure for trying and everyone is encouraged and supported to succeed.
We are business-minded, and forward thinking.
As a boutique law firm, RMO LLP demonstrates how small is mighty every day.
Our hyper focus in probate, trust and estate litigation allows for mastery in a growing and dynamic area of the law. Our depth of practice creates a platform that depends on and welcomes new ideas—it’s how we maximize efficiencies and results, while remaining flexible pivoting smoothly when needed.
We continually evaluate and use emerging technologies that allow our attorneys to remain focused on what they love most—advising clients, practicing law, and advancing their careers.
We are committed to your career advancement.
When we talk about our collaborative spirit, we really mean that everyone has a voice, and one we want to hear. Less hierarchical and more inclusive than traditional law firms, RMO encourages all of our professionals to build relationships both internally and across the business community, all which grows expertise and leads to business.
Your professional development is your concern. It’s ours too. We have built the firm on the strength of the relationships we invest in and reputations we earn—our relationship with firm colleagues is at the center of our success.
OUR CLIENTS
TRUSTEES
Whether you are a family trustee, professional private fiduciary, or trust officer at a trust company, your ability to discharge the fiduciary duties you owe trust beneficiaries and eliminate and your exposure rests squarely your ability to effectively read and understand trust documents, marshal, inventory, appraise and protect trust assets, make those trust assets productive, investigate and negotiate creditor claims, prepare accountings, determine, communicate and make distributions to trust beneficiaries, and obtain judicial approval of trustee acts or omissions, as necessary.
EXECUTORS
Discovering that you have been named executor of a will in a testate estate or that you need to get appointed administrator of an intestate probate estate where there is no will, especially while dealing with the emotional loss of a loved one, is overwhelming. We have the experience to guide you through the appointment process, handling all of the probate petition paperwork and probate hearings so you don’t have to, walking you through your duties and responsibilities, negotiating creditor claims, selling property, coordinating with tax and other professionals, preparing accountings, communicating with beneficiaries, and, where necessary, handling probate litigation matters, so your estate and probate administration is worry free, cost-effective, and efficient.
BENEFICIARIES AND HEIRS
As an heir, trust beneficiary, will beneficiary, bank account beneficiary, investment account beneficiary, 401k beneficiary, life insurance beneficiary, or joint tenant, you have rights, and we have the experience to advise you of those rights, any limitations, what you can expect, when you can expect it, and how much it should cost to get it. Let us help you make sure you get what your supposed to from your loved one’s trust, estate or probate administration, and if necessary fight to get what’s yours if you are involved in a trust, estate or probate litigation, are a victim of fiduciary abuse, or if there was financial elder abuse.
SPOUSES
CREDITORS
Estate creditors need to act quickly but smartly when a debtor passes, because most state probate laws give creditors a limited amount of time to pursue their claims against an estate (e.g. one year in California). Combine those constricted time frames with the complicated probate procedures that must be followed to protect a claim and you can see why many creditors fail to secure pursue any claim at all and how trustees and executors fail to properly process creditor claims. Whether you’re a creditor, trustee or executor, we can help you understand your rights and obligations.
CONSERVATORS & GUARDIANS
Conserving or establishing a guardianship for a compromised loved one is an incredibly difficult decision, made only that much more challenging when contested by feuding family members. Not only do we have the experience to help you secure the stability, safety and security your loved one deserves, but we do it with empathy and more humanly for their benefit all while holding those who have taken advantage of them accountable for their financial elder abuse (LINK) or fiduciary abuse (LINK). Our record proves it.
SCHEDULE A FREE CONSULTATION
Schedule your free consultation here and we’ll contact you at your convenience.
SCHEDULE A FREE CONSULTATION
Schedule your free consultation here and we’ll contact you at your convenience.
SCOTT RAHN
FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
- “Top 100 – Trust and Estate Litigation” SuperLawyers, Southern California Super Lawyers 2017-2022
- “Top Litigator”, Los Angeles Business Journal, Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers, 2020-2021
- “Super Lawyer” SuperLawyers, Southern California Super Lawyers 2014-2022; “Rising Star” since 2006
- Trusts and Estates Litigator of the Year, Century City Bar Association 2018
- “Elite Boutique Trailblazer” National Law Journal 2018
- Best Lawyers in America, Litigation – Trusts and Estates, 2018-2022
- Rated AV Preeminent® 5 out of 5 by Martindale-Hubbell
- Rated “Superb 10” by Avvo