Cecelia Fusich - Board Member

Ms. Fusich is of counsel with Gilfix & La Poll Associates LLP firm. Ms. Fusich graduated from UCLA Phi Beta Kappa and from Boalt Law School (at the University of California at Berkeley) and was admitted to the bar in 1989.  Since then she has practiced law, focusing on trial work and civil litigation, for over thirty years. She has managed large and complex cases, as counsel for Fortune 500 Companies and government entities, including counseling clients on compliance with and directing the prosecution or defense of federal and state statutes and regulations. She has significant experience in the areas of environmental, insurance coverage, constitutional, real estate and personal injury law. She has also had significant experience in the practice of elder law – estates, trusts, conservatorships, elder abuse and probate administration, which has been her principal focus for over ten years. She is knowledgeable in all areas of this practice --from the development of a legal strategy, to its implementation and completion. She has served as a settlement judge pro tempore for the Superior Court in Santa Clara and she regularly serves as faculty for University of San Francisco Law School Intensive Trial Advocacy Program.