Mark D. Epstein
Director
Mark Epstein has been practicing law for 30 years, and has more than 24 years of experience in real estate, business, lending, and title insurance coverage litigation. He has a solid track record of successful client representations in resolving disputes that entail real property, title insurance, escrow, commercial landlord-tenant, mortgage lending, easement, boundary line, encroachment, and lien priority claims. Mr. Epstein represents property owners, developers, fractional interest investors, title insurers, banks, and other financial institutions, as well as real estate professionals. Mr. Epstein is a 1993 graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he earned his J.D. He graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1989 with an AB in Political Science. Mr. Epstein was admitted to the State Bar of California in December of 1993 and started his legal career at the law firm of Gordon & Rees (now Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP). From 2002 through 2009, he was a partner in the Walnut Creek law firm of Alborg, Veiluva & Epstein, LLP before he joined the Oakland law firm of Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean, LLP (now Fennemore Wendel) in November of 2009. Mr. Epstein is the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Rebuilding Together Oakland/East Bay, and has been a Board Member since 2018. He is also the 2023 to 2024 President of the 100 Club, an organization that supports the Boys and Girls Clubs of Oakland. Mr. Epstein was an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where he co-taught a course on real estate transactions and litigation during the fall 2015 and 2016 semesters.
Greggory Christopher Brandt
Director
Gregg Brandt provides timely and practical advice on a wide variety of complex real estate transactions. He helps clients purchase, sell, and lease all types of commercial, retail, and industrial real estate. Informed by his background in engineering, experience at a multinational company, and time as a corporate legal client, Mr. Brandt’s approach to client-service is highly responsive, practical, and solution-oriented. Mr. Brandt has practiced law in California for more than 25 years. He is proud of the relationships he has established with clients, coworkers, and others in the legal profession and enjoys the challenge of working through tough legal problems in a respectful and professional manner.
David Francis Monsour
Partner
David Monsour is a Partner at Fennemore Wendel, with a focus in trusts and estates litigation. He represents clients in all phases of litigation, including pre-litigation settlement negotiations through trial. Mr. Monsour earned his BBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He went to law school and earned his J.D. from the University of California, Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). During law school, Mr. Monsour externed for District Court Judge Edward J. Davila and for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Monsour has spoken on topics related to T&E issues, including for East Bay Trusts & Estates Lawyers and for the California Lawyers Association. He has written articles on T&E topics with CEB and is active with the San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa County Bar Associations, as well as with EBTEL. Mr. Monsour has been recognized as a Super Lawyer Rising Star and by Best Lawyers for T&E litigation.
Francesca K. Boyd
Director
Francesca Boyd advises clients in all areas of estate planning, estate administrative law, wealth management, and wealth transfer planning. She has experience in drafting complex wills and trust agreements, probating estates, administering trusts, analyzing estate and gift taxation matters, and advising fiduciaries and beneficiaries. Representing corporate clients, Ms. Boyd has provided legal services on business formation and succession, charitable transfers, and tax compliance. Educational History • J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law • MA from the California Institute of Integral Studies, Psychological Studies • BA from the University of St. Thomas Achievements & Other Notable Experience • Estate Planning chair and board member of East Bay Trusts and Estates Lawyers • Member of the Professional Advisors Council, San Francisco Foundation • Member of the California Lawyer’s Association • Member of the California State Bar
Mark Steven Bostick
Director
Mark Bostick practices insolvency, specializing in bankruptcy, debtor workouts, fraudulent transfer prosecution and receiverships. Mr. Bostick received his J.D. from University of San Francisco Law School, and his AB degree in rhetoric from UC Berkeley. After starting his practice at the bankruptcy firm formerly known as Rothschild, Phelan, King & Montali, he has practiced at Wendel Rosen, now known as Fennemore Wendel, in Oakland, California since 1989. Mr. Bostick was formerly a contributing editor of the bankruptcy chapter in the CEB publication “California Mortgages and Deed of Trust and Foreclosure Litigation,” and is currently an editor of the bankruptcy chapter in the CEB publication “California Mechanics Liens and Related Construction Remedies.” He has often given seminars on the subject of community property issues in the context of debtor-creditor disputes. Mr. Bostick was lead counsel for the trustee in the bankruptcy case of Fox Ortega, Inc., dba Premier Cru, a world-wide wine retail Ponzi scheme based in Berkeley, California.
