Attorney profile

Aida del Valle was a member of the first class of women to graduate from Princeton University and received her juris doctor degree from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), one of the top ten law schools in the country. While in law school she was an associate editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly, received a Best Brief award, and a fellowship from the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund. Together with two other women, she lobbied successfully to make it possible for mothers to extend the law school education period to three and a half years, instead of three.

Ms. del Valle received an offer to serve in the Honors Program of U.S. Attorneys for her outstanding work as an intern for the Director of the Torts Branch of the Civil División of the Justice Department in Washington D.C. She practiced in the commercial litigation department of a blue-chip San Francisco firm before establishing her own office, working as corporate counsel for a number of software firms in Marin County and San Francisco. In 2002 she began practicing exclusively in the area of estates and trusts.

Ms. del Valle is a member of the California Bar Association’s and the Marin County Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates sections, and of the East Bay Trust and Estates Lawyers. She participates in  professional study groups in Marin and Alameda counties and is committed to expanding and deepening her knowledge base in order to better serve her clients. She served as the Co-Chair of the Mentor Group of the Estates and Trusts Section of the Marin County Bar Association for two years and on the Board of Directors of the Marin Bar Association. She also recently served as a Commissioner for the Marin County Women’s Commission.

Ms. del Valle has contributed to her community as a pro-bono attorney for the California Lawyers for the Arts, the San Francisco and Marin County Bar Associations, Legal Aid of Marin, and for many individuals and families in need. For several years she has been an alumna interviewer of prospective students applying to Princeton University, and she has also mentored at-risk teens through the Marin County Office of Education.

She is a native Spanish speaker and the proud mother of one daughter, a Yale University and University of Chicago graduate, who is pursuing a doctorate at Columbia University.