Heather Glick-Atalla is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate Law, and focuses her law practice on Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Administration, and Nonprofit Law.

Estate Planning: Her estate planning services include drafting revocable and irrevocable living trusts for individuals and married couples, advanced health care directives, durable powers of attorney, HIPAA documents, trust certifications, deeds and assignments, and completing estate tax returns.

Probate and Trust Administration: Heather assists clients during all stages of probate court procedures, including both testate (where the decedent had a will) as well as interstate (where the decedent did not have a will) probate matters. She also provides advice and counsel to trustees regarding trust administration, including beneficiary/heir notices, division and distribution of trust assets, sales of properties, creditor claims, fiduciary duties, accounting and tax filing requirements, property tax and estate tax issues. Heather advises both trustees who are handling administration of a trust during the trustor’s lifetime as well as post-death trust administration.

Nonprofit Law: As part of her nonprofit law practice, Heather forms nonprofit corporations, prepares applications for federal and state tax exempt status, and serves as general counsel for nonprofit organizations that have compliance issues or are in need of assistance with nonprofit governance.

Heather graduated near the top of her class from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2009, where she was awarded an academic scholarship during all three years of study. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 2005. Heather was admitted to practice law in California in 2009.

During law school, Heather focused on developing her research and writing skills through her courses and legal clerkships, and was a member of the San Diego Law Review.

Prior to joining Glick Atalla, APLC in 2010, Heather volunteered her time at Bet Tzedek – The House of Justice in Los Angeles, primarily working on behalf of Holocaust survivors seeking reparations from Germany and other European countries. She orchestrated a major survivor’s reparations program, which included drafting all necessary applications, forms, and correspondence to hundreds of clients as well as attorneys in Bet Tzedek’s volunteer network across the United States.

Heather served as the President of the Board of Trustees of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association during the 2023-2024 fiscal year.

In 2013 through 2019 Heather was named a Southern California Super Lawyers “Rising Star” attorney and was featured in two issues of Los Angeles magazine as well as Super Lawyers magazine. In 2014 she was nominated by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal as one of the Valley’s Trusted Advisors, and in 2020 through 2024 Heather was named as a Southern California “Super Lawyer”.

In 2017, Heather became certified as a specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.