Timothy Kay
Partner
Tim Kay has a high net worth and ultra high net worth practice. He assists clients in planning for transfers to their intended beneficiaries; using best of class techniques and advanced transfer tax strategies; and designs and implements charitable trusts and entities. Mr. Kay represents clients before the IRS in controversies about transfer taxation and handles trust and estate controversies with a skilled team in Snell & Wilmer’s Orange County office. He also handles cross-over matters involving family law, such as the preparation of prenuptial agreements for clients. Mr. Kay graduated from Stanford Law School and joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Orange County. After advancing to Partner, he joined Snell & Wilmer as a partner in 2004 when Gibson Dunn exited the estate planning practice. Mr. Kay is a co-practice group leader in Snell & Wilmer’s Private Client Services practice group. Mr. Kay has participated in CEB presentations to other lawyers about estate planning matters. In 2019, he spoke at the Kasner Symposium sponsored by Santa Clara Law School on a topic of great interest to him - How Trust & Estate Litigation Has Affected My Estate Planning Practice. Mr. Kay is a certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law by the California Board of Legal Specialization. He is a past president of the Orange County Estate Planning Council and serves on boards of charitable organizations.
Brian J. Mills
Partner
Brian Mills is a partner and practice group leader for Snell & Wilmer’s labor and employment law group. His practice is concentrated in employment litigation and counseling. Mr. Mills represents employers in all areas of litigation in state and federal court and arbitration, including claims of sexual harassment, race discrimination, reasonable accommodation of disabilities, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour disputes (individual and class action), medical leave claims, trade secrets, and non-competition agreements. He provides clients with ongoing advice on a wide range of personnel matters including hiring and termination decisions, employment agreements, wage and hour issues, discrimination/harassment prevention, and employee medical leave Mr. Mills graduated, magna cum laude, from Loyola University School of Law, New Orleans. He also attended North Carolina State University for a Master's Program in Experimental Psychology. Mr. Mills graduated from University of California at Irvine with a BA in Psychology. He has worked at Snell & Wilmer for 22 years in labor and employment. Mr. Mills routinely speaks and writes on various employment law topics across California.
Charles W. Daff
Senior Attorney
Charles Daff is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law by the California Board of Legal Specialization and a Senior Attorney in the Private Client Services group of Snell & Wilmer LLP. His practice focuses on tax, trusts, and estates with an emphasis in estate planning, trust and probate administration, charitable planning, and estate and gift taxation. He is admitted to practice in California and Nevada. Mr. Daff earned his BA in Business/Economics with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his J.D. from the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where he served as Senior Editor and Lead Article Editor for the UC Irvine Law Review. Prior to joining Snell & Wilmer, he held positions at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Gaw Van Male LLP, and Bank of America Private Bank. Mr. Daff has been a long-time contributor to legal publications, serving as an update author for numerous chapters in CEB’s “California Trust Administration,” “California Estate Planning,” and “California Will Drafting;” as well as a co-author for articles published by California Trusts and Estates Quarterly and The Journal of Financial Planning. He has also presented on various estate planning topics and held leadership roles in professional organizations, including serving as co-chair of the estate planning special interest group of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Antonio Kizzie
Associate
Antonio Kizzie is an experienced state and federal litigation, trial, and appellate attorney with hundreds of cases and 10 state and federal civil jury trials as first chair under his belt. He represents plaintiff and defendant; domestic and international; private individuals, corporations, and public entity clients in general commercial disputes and transactions; intellectual property, entertainment and technology litigation and transactions, including copyright infringement, trademark filings and cryptocurrency; personal injury and wrongful death; real estate; banking; white-collar defense; and civil rights matters. Mr. Kizzie also has substantial experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating entertainment and general business transactions for large and small corporate and individual clients. After graduating from University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 2011, Mr. Kizzie served as a volunteer deputy city attorney prosecuting DUIs for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, Metropolitan Branch. He received his BA in legal communication, magna cum laude, from Howard University in 2008. Mr. Kizzie is licensed to practice law in California, as well as Washington, DC, and has been admitted to all federal districts of California; the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; the US District Court for Colorado and Washington, DC; and the US Supreme Court. He has argued cases before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, California Supreme Court, and was lead trial and appellate counsel in a matter before the US Supreme Court. In 2015, the National Bar Association named Mr. Kizzie as one of the "Top 40 Lawyers Under 40." In 2022, he was selected to join the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), a national association of more than 7,300 experienced trial lawyers and judges that consists of 96 chapters spread across all 50 states and the District of Colombia. In 2019, Mr. Kizzie received the Howard University “Move Maker” Award. In 2013 and 2015, he received the John M. Langston Bar Association, President's Award. In 2016, Mr. Kizzie received a Service Appreciation Award from the city of Compton.
