Aya Kanda

Aya Kanda is an associate attorney at Barulich Dugoni and Suttmann Law Group, Inc. in the litigation practice group. Her practice is focused on disputes arising out of trusts, estates, and related areas, including elder abuse. Ms. Kanda represents trustees, executors, personal representatives, attorneys-in-fact, and beneficiaries in actions involving accusations of trust mismanagement, breaches of fiduciary duty, and contests to wills and trusts.

Ms. Kanda was admitted to the California State Bar in 2019. She received her BA degree in Rhetoric, with a focus in public discourse, from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013, and her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law, San Francisco) in 2019.

Prior to working at BDS, Ms. Kanda worked in the Internal Revenue Service's Office of Chief Counsel in San Francisco, taking responsibility for two cases and making a special appearance in Tax Court. She conducted research on California laws regarding special needs trusts and expatriation laws as well as income tax treaties between the U.S. and abroad, both of which were submitted to other departments as advisory memoranda.