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BETH L. KRAMER
Founding Partner

Beth L. Kramer is the Founding Partner of the Kramer Law Group. She focuses on tax and non-tax aspects of estate planning including drafting wills and trusts, structuring wealth transfers to charitable and non-charitable recipients, forming family partnerships and other closely held business entities, administering estates and trusts, preparing estate and gift tax returns, representing taxpayers during estate tax audits, and before the United States Tax Court and planning for distributions of retirement benefits. In addition, Ms. Kramer establishes and counsels non-profit organizations such as private foundations and business leagues. She also prepares prenuptial and marital property agreements and plans for incapacity.

Ms. Kramer received her J.D. cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1985, where she was also named a Paul J. Liacos Distinguished Scholar. She attended the State University of New York at Binghamton as an undergraduate, receiving both a B.S. in economics and a B.A. in mathematics in 1982. During 1981, Ms. Kramer also studied at the Franco-American Institute in Paris. Prior to founding Kramer Law Group in 2001, Ms. Kramer was a partner in Wald & Kramer, LLP from 1998 - 2001. She was the Senior Estate Planning Attorney with Howard, Rice, from 1995 - 1998 as well as an associate with Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum in its San Francisco office from 1993 - 1994, with Buffington & Konigsberg from 1990-1993, and with Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn in Washington, D.C., from 1985-1990.

Ms. Kramer was admitted to the California bar in 1991. She is also a member of the state bars of New York, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court. Ms. Kramer is a member of the Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Section of the State Bar of California, the Tax Section and the Real Property, Trust and Probate Section of the American Bar Association, the San Francisco Bay Area Women Tax Lawyers, the San Francisco Estate Planning Council, and the Marin County Estate Planning Council. She speaks on topics relating to estate planning and trust administration, including fiduciary duties and responsibilities, planning for retirement distributions, the generation-skipping transfer tax, and revocable trusts. During 2000, she was Chairman of the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. She is co-author of the Estate and Gift Tax Chapter of CEB's California Estate Planning treatise (2002 edition).

Ms. Kramer has been certified as a specialist in estate planning, probate and trust law by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization.