Meet Our Professionals
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Bradley R. Kirk, Esq.Lead Litigation Counsel
Bradley R. Kirk is the lead litigation attorney at the firm. He is a certified specialist in trust and probate law, and during his 29-year career, Mr. Kirk has tried through to judgment over 100 trust/probate cases in the Southern California Courts. Mr. Kirk manages a team of skilled trust/probate litigators and handles all manner of complex trust/probate cases.
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Jacob C. DeVilliers, Esq.Senior Associate — Managing Attorney
Jacob DeVilliers is the firm’s senior managing attorney. He joined Bradley R. Kirk & Associates, Inc. as an associate attorney in 2001 and was admitted to the California Bar in 2002. Mr. DeVilliers’ practice focuses on Probate and Trust Administration and pre-litigation matters.
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Larissa L. Abruscato, Esq.Associate Attorney — Trust/Probate Litigation
Larissa Abruscato is an associate attorney at the firm. Ms. Abruscato joined Bradley R. Kirk & Associates, Inc. in 2017 and since then she has been practicing exclusively in the areas of Trust and Probate Litigation. She handles all manner of Trust/Probate disputes including trust and will contests, fiduciary accounting litigation, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and financial elder abuse.
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Evan A. Basakis, Esq.Associate Attorney — Trust/Probate Litigation
Mr. Basakis has been an associate attorney of the firm since 2018. His practice focuses on all manner of trust and probate litigation - including trust and will contests, fiduciary accounting litigation, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and financial elder abuse.
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Christiaan VasquezSenior Managing Paralegal
In 2012, Mr. Vasquez joined Bradley R. Kirk & Associates, Inc. as a trust/probate litigation paralegal. Since joining the firm, Mr. Vasquez was promoted to and now serves as the Firm’s Senior Managing Paralegal exclusively in the areas of Trust and Probate Litigation.
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Lorraine PasillasAssociate Paralegal
In 2017, Ms. Pasillas joined Bradley Kirk & Associates, Inc. as an associate paralegal. Her practice focuses on all aspects of trust/probate litigation.
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Benjamin CasteelAssociate Paralegal
Benjamin Casteel graduated in 2022 from the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, Malibu, California with a Masters in Dispute ... -
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Cliff HarrisCJ Enterprises
Cliff Harris leads a team of document processing specialists. These skilled professionals manage the thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of pages of documents the firm receives and/or generates in each case. Mr. Harris’ work is vital to the firm’s success.
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Shelly TerrignoAccounting Department
Ms. Terrigno heads up the Firm’s accounting department. She handles all bookkeeping and accounting matters.
Real Clients. Real Reviews.
Testimonials-
“Brad was very knowledgeable and helpful in charting a course confidently through this maze of litigation that I absolutely had no knowledge of. He believed in us and I in him. The result was that the opposing party readily accepted the proposed settlement.”
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“If I hear of anyone in the OC that needs a good attorney, I will definitely recommend you and Brad.”
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“Hired Attorney Kirk to remove co-trustee, who had commented elder abuse, fraud, and much worse with my Grandmothers estate. I was a hard client, and Brad did a great job. It took some time, was ...”
- Steph -
“The team approached the case objectively, for a win for all parties involved. Jacob, Christian, and the entire team were patient and knowledgeable, putting us at ease. We trusted we were in the best possible hands given this unfamiliar territory.”
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“You and the team were great! I would recommend Brad Kirk for any litigation needs. Brad and Christian were very helpful and understanding”
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“Brad is exceptionally bright, intuitive, and compelled to constantly think out of the box, thus ultimately saving the clients huge sums of money in the long run! I cannot say enough good things about Mr. Kirk, and glad he represented me in an ugly family t”
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“Brad assisted me in helping settle part of my late father's estate. I was having problems dealing with one of my father's banks, who were extremely unhelpful and basically just giving me bad ...”
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“Upon the sudden death of a friend, I became Executor of her Estate and Trustee of her Trust. All of the beneficiaries were out of state. I didn't know where to start, but Jacob of Bradley Kirk & Assoc ...”
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“Needless to say with Brad's help we got the results we were hoping for! Thank you again.”
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“It is with disbelief that I read the negative review of a client thee months ago. His experience certainly wasn't mine! I found Brad and his staff extremely responsive. All our communication i.e. ...”
- anonymous