BRANDT ANDERSSON received his law degree form the University of California (Boalt Hall), where he served as Editor-in-Chief of Ecology Law Quarterly.

Mr. Andersson worked in the San Francisco and Walnut Creek offices of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen. Since joining Andersson & Andersson in 1997, his practice has focused on estate planning.

Mr. Andersson has served on the Lafayette City Council and has chaired the Orinda Planning Commission, Lafayette Public Safety Implementation Committee, Orinda General Plan Committee, and other civic organizations.

Mr. Andersson also earned a master's degree in architecture from M.I.T. and spent more than a decade as a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory studying and publishing on energy efficiency in buildings.

Areas of Practice

• Estate Planning
• Probate and Estate Administration
• Trusts
• Wills

Bar Admissions

• California, 1992
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1992

Education

• University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California, 1992
  J.D.
  Law Review: Editor-in-Chief, Ecology Law Quarterly, 1991 - 1992
  
  
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  M.Arch., 1977, B.S. 1972
  
  

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Contra Costa County Bar Association
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Lafayette City Council, 2002
• Orinda Planning Commission, 1987-1989; Chairman, 1989