Cory R. Darnell

The Burton Law firm provides comprehensive and customized estate, tax and legal services to all clients, regardless of the size of their business or personal holdings. Our knowledgeable attorneys and staff will provide you and/or your company with both personalized attention and the most expert legal strategies.

As a boutique Law Firm, we focus on Estate, Business, and Tax issues, both transactional and litigation, located in Sacramento, California. We specialize in handling complex and overlapping areas of law be it transactional in nature or a litigation issue. Our focus allows us to cater specifically to the needs of, as well as providing complete solutions to closely held or family businesses, as well as higher net worth estates in need of distinct services. Our firm is dedicated to reviewing each client’s unique financial, tax, and legal situation, then using this as a guide to develop and implement a complete planning or trial strategy.

Our background, experience, and focus allow us to provide our estate planning clients with a cost-effective and indispensable plan tailored to maximize their estate’s assets for themselves and their heirs. And our Trust, Tax and Probate Litigation department allows us to back up our clients plans even in the most extreme of unforeseen circumstances.

Our expertise, knowledge and resources in the area of Business Governance, Contracts, Copyright, Employee Benefits, Succession, Mergers/Acquisitions, International Law and Tax Law, allow us to cater to closely held corporations, partnerships and LLCS from formation, to capital fundraising, to the eventual sale, succession or dissolution. Our Business Litigation Team specializes in supporting those businesses despite legal and financial challenges.

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Cory has had a truly global education growing up and being educated both in Europe and the USA. A graduate of the University of California, Davis, School of Law, Cory Darnell received many honors, including the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence by achieving the highest academic achievement in his class, as well as being the Senior Online Editor for the UC Davis Law Review. Cory was a Judicial Extern for Honorable Kimberly J Mueller, Chief United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. He also externed for the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Prior to law school, he received a M.B.A. from Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland (where he received First Class Honors), a Post Graduate Degree in Corporate Governance from the University of Bournemouth, in the United Kingdom, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States of America.

Cory’s practice includes Alcohol and Beverage Law; Civil Litigation, Trust Wills and Estates (including Probate), Domain Disputes, Estate Planning, Tax (including drafting and reviewing Trust, Wills, Powers of Attorney, etc.), Corporate and Business Law, and International Law. Admissions to date:

• California
• Nevada
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
• Public Notary

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