Christopher B Johnson

Specialties

Chris has extensive experience as a lawyer in estate planning, probate, special needs trusts, life insurance trusts, charitable remainder trusts, elder law and probate litigation. He works with small to large estates, including business succession planning and asset protection. He has teamed with the Skapik Law Group to offer their aggressive trial experience-​between them they have obtained multi-​million dollar settlements and courtroom verdicts for their clients in trust and will actions, elder abuse, class actions and personal injury.

Chris has served estate planning, probate and trust administration clients since 1995, been recognized as a «Top Attorney» by Pasadena Magazine for several years and has received a «Superb» 10.0 rating from Avvo. He has experience with high net worth and ultra high net worth families in their generational wealth transfer planning and wealth planning needs.

History

Established in 1995.

Christopher Johnson started his firm in 1995 and has been helping families plan their futures, protect their wealth and distribute assets to their loved ones for over 18 years.

Meet the Business Owner

Christopher J.

Business Owner

Christopher B. Johnson focuses his practice on the areas of trusts, wills, estate planning, probate and trust litigation and elder law. He is based in Pasadena and is of counsel to the Skapik Law Group in Chino Hills.

Prior to establishing his own practice, he was a Senior Vice President and Senior Trust Officer with U.S. Trust, serving Southern California high net worth and ultra high net worth families in their wealth transfer planning and with trust services. Before U.S. Trust, he was a founding member of the Arroyo Law Group, Russakow | Ryan | Johnson, and his own estate planning and probate practice in Pasadena, as well as a civil litigation lawyer 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 and is a frequent speaker to attorneys and community groups, and has just been named to MyLawCLE’s advisory board.