Priscilla Camp

PRISCILLA CAMP’S practice is limited to Elder Law, including powers of attorney, probate, conservatorship, nursing home issues, capacity determinations, and trust administration.

Following a four-year term as Executive Director of Legal Assistance for Seniors in the early 1980’s, she has been on the Board of Directors of that organization several times, and currently chairs the Board Development Committee. She is a past President of Women Lawyers of Alameda County and a past Secretary of California Women Lawyers. A frequent speaker to Alzheimer Family Support Groups and other community groups throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, she also lectures to attorneys, doctors and judges, and is a founding member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Her column, The Senior Partner, has appeared in the Bulletin of the Alameda County Bar Association since 1991. She has chaired various committees of the Alameda County Bar Association, and has served as a Settlement Conference Judge Pro Tem in the Probate Department.

She has been included in the Northern California Super Lawyers list 2006 through 2009, received the State Bar President’s Pro Bono Award for District 3 in 1990, and the Wiley M. Manual Pro Bono Services Award in 1999, chaired the State Bar’s Legal Services Trust Fund Commission in 1994 and will receive a Career Achievement Award from Legal Assistance for Seniors at a luncheon on October 23, 2009. She is a contributing author of three books by Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB): California Elder Law, 1993-2002; California Durable Powers of Attorney, 1996-2005; and Capacity and Undue Influence, 1999-2006.

Priscilla is currently studying for a Certificate of Theological Studies at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (Episcopal) in Berkeley.

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