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Attorney Profiles

James A. Schmiesing 
Irvine, California
Managing Partner
phone (888) 312-4849
fax (949) 863-0164
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Jim Schmiesing is resident in the Irvine office and works primarily in the areas of business and corporate, real estate, estate planning, trusts, conservatorships and probate.

Jim is a graduate of Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles (J.D.) and holds a certificate in tax from the University of Southern California. A member of the California Bar since 1963, he is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and United States Tax Court. In 1969, Jim relocated to Orange County where he has practiced and lived since. He and Tim Blied have been together for over 20 years and with Jerry Mackey for six years. Jim and his wife Julie have been married for over 35 years and have four adult children. Jim is active in a teaching ministry for his church and has obtained his master's and doctoral degree's in theology.

Areas of Practice:
30% Estate & Tax Planning
20% Probate & Trust Administration
30% Business Law & Entity Formation
20% Real Estate - Commercial & Residential
Bar Admissions:
California, 1963
U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1995
U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1963
U.S. Tax Court, 1975
Education:
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California
Honors: Alpha Sigma Nu


Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, California
Honors: Dean's List - All 6 Semesters


Past Employment Positions:
California Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, 1963 - 1965


Boyko & Simons, Associate, 1965 - 1969


Office Locations

Main Office
Central Orange County Office
400 North Tustin Avenue
Suite 290
Santa Ana, California 92705
Telephone: 949-863-0200
Fax: 949-863-0164
Email | Map & Directions

Satellite Office
(By Appointment Only)
North Orange County Office
2260 N. State College Blvd.
Fullerton, California 92831
Telephone: 714-990-5100
Fax: 714-990-3826
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Satellite Office
(By Appointment Only)
Riverside County Office

77-564 Country Club Drive
Suite 135
Palm Desert, CA 92211
Telephone: 760-404-1430
Fax: 760-404-1429
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Southern California private adoption attorney Tim Blied helps birth mothers find loving adoptive homes for their unborn children. As an adoption lawyer, he serves birth mothers and adopting parents in Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, and pregnant women and girls throughout the United States, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Phoenix, San Antonio, Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, St. Louis, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte, and New York.

We advise birth mothers, expectant women, and pregnant teens in all states: Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • District of Columbia • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • Washington DC • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming