About Our Team

Heather Glick-Atalla Managing Partner

Heather Glick-Atalla is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law, and focuses her practice on Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Administration and Nonprofit Law. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 2005 and her law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2009, where she graduated near the top of her class. Heather is the 2024 President of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association.

Marshall A. Glick Founder and Of Counsel

Marshall A. Glick has been practicing law for over 55 years, emphasizing Estate Planning, Non-profit Law, Business and Corporate Law, and Real Estate law. Prior to founding Glick Atalla, APLC (formerly known as Marshall A. Glick, APC) in 1985, Marshall was a partner at a Century City, Los Angeles law firm.

Our Philosophy

Our firm philosophy has always been to be the kind of lawyers that we ourselves would want to hire to represent us in any legal matter. In over seventy years of combined law practice, no client has ever complained that we were unattainable or non-responsive, or that we unreasonably delayed completing our work. We have dedicated our law practice toward continuing this level of professionalism.

Same-Day Response Guarantee

To us, providing legal services in a manner we ourselves would want to receive means that all phone calls, e-mails, and faxes received during each business day are responded to immediately and, in no event, later than the next following business day. All legal work is performed within the shortest possible time frame consistent with providing our clients with the highest caliber of work product.

Legal Fees

Our legal fees are based upon our hourly rates, although many matters are accepted for a fixed legal fee, such as wills and trusts and related estate plan documents, and charity formation. Our fees are much more competitive than those offered by most other law firms that provide similar services, especially in view of our over forty-five years of firm history.

In connection with estate planning, our legal fee includes what we refer to as our “lifetime service agreement,” which means that as long as we remain in practice, we will participate in meetings with clients at our office, and in telephone calls, at no additional charge, provided that the subject of the meeting pertains to the estate plan documents that we prepared.

We will also respond to any future questions about estate planning documents we have prepared without further charge. We believe that this policy may be unique to our firm, and free consultations on estate planning matters encourage clients to ask questions about their estate plan documents without concern over incurring additional charges with our firm.

Our Clients

In addition to our legal representation of hundreds of other clients, the following is a representative sample of charities we have formed and for which we prepared and filed Form 1023 applications with the IRS and related State applications for tax-exempt status: