Jennifer E. Dean

Before leaving private practice, Jennifer Dean worked as an estate planning, trust administration, and probate attorney, focusing on smaller estates and non-contested cases. She now works as a Content Attorney for CEB on the Trust and Estates Team.

Ms. Dean graduated, magna cum laude, from Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee with a BA in History. She then received her J.D. from California Western School of Law. Ms. Dean has over 13 years of legal industry experience, 10 in the estate planning and trust practice area, working first as a paralegal and later as Managing Attorney for Shoup Legal, A Professional Law Corporation.

Ms. Dean edits and has served as the Content Attorney for many CEB publications, including “Decedent's Estate Practice,” “California Irrevocable Trusts,” “California Probate Workflow Manual,” “California Powers of Attorney and Advance Directives,” and “California Will Drafting.” Her Daily News series "Exploring Probate Topics through Viral TikTok Songs" looks at how pop culture and the probate world intersect. Ms. Dean has been a member of San Diego County Bar Association for many years, in addition to serving as an advisor on the Southern California District Church of the Nazarene District Properties Board.