David Yeats Parnall

David Parnall specializes in trust and estate litigation and administration. His practice focuses on disputes that stem from the transfer of wealth after a person’s death or loss of capacity. The cases that Mr. Parnall handles typically relate to estate distributions and accountings; financial elder abuse; the validity of trusts, wills, and other instruments; actions to remove trustees or other fiduciaries; and similar issues.

Mr. Parnall has been a litigator his entire legal career, and has practiced exclusively in trusts and estates since 2014. He attended law school at the King Hall School of Law at the University of California, Davis.

Mr. Parnall has served multiple years as the chair of the Litigation and Mediation Section of the East Bay Trust and Estate Lawyers (EBTEL), as well as the chair of the Trusts and Estates Section of the Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA). He also serves on the Board of Directors of ACBA. Mr. Parnall was the primary attorney handling the case of Moore v. Superior Court (2020) 57 Cal.App.5th 441, and has written for various publications including the California Trusts and Estates Quarterly.