EB 2 – Elder Financial Exploitation – Dueling Perspectives

Paul Greenwood is an experienced lawyer with over 40 years of experience, dually qualified as a UK solicitor and California attorney, working for over 22 years in elder abuse felony criminal prosecution. Currently, Mr. Greenwood is a criminal justice at large board member of the National Adult Protective Services Association and has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging. He has presented keynotes for national and international organizations in the USA, Canada, Singapore, UK, and beyond. He has been designated as an expert witness regarding red flags of undue influence by which a perpetrator has exploited an older or dependent adult and is currently a member of Aging Today Editorial Advisory Committee and of the National Center on Elder Abuse Advisory Board. Paul was recently presented with the Edwin Miller Jr. Lifetime achievement award by the San Diego Deputy District Attorneys Association.

Scott Rahn has been litigating contentious probate matters for more than 20 years, including the last decade at RMO LLP, a firm he launched in 2015 to focus exclusively on contentious trust, estate, and conservatorship matters. Mr. Rahn has earned a reputation for his keen ability to manage family dysfunction while securing real-world results. He has extensive experience in courts, arbitration, mediation, and dispute resolution forums across California as well as in key retirement centers in the United States and through strategic partnerships in international locations. Representing beneficiaries, heirs, executors, trustees and fiduciaries, his clients are typically embroiled in inheritance disputes involving trust contests, will contests, undue influence, incapacity, fraud, financial elder abuse and claims for breaches of fiduciary duties.

Mr. Rahn has worked to bring a better, more professional and results-oriented contentious trusts and estates experience to our communities. The effective solutions he and the firm have been able to bring to even the most fraught trust and estate fights have earned him well-deserved recognitions, including being named to the Chambers and Partners “2024 High Net Worth Guide” in Private Wealth Disputes and the “Best Lawyers in America” list by Best Lawyers. He also has been recognized as a “Top Litigator” by the Los Angeles Business Journal and a “Leading Litigator in America” by Lawdragon.