Law Offices of Selwyn D. Whitehead

About

Selwyn focuses on estate planning, wealth management, federal bankruptcy law, federal income, estate, & more.

Description

Selwyn Whitehead is a San Francisco Bay Area bankruptcy and tax attorney whose practice focuses on helping her clients manage their wealth through effective estate and tax planning and/or manage their debt through debt restructuring or bankruptcy. Selwyn also helps her clients facing foreclosure and represents clients before the IRS and the US Tax Court. Prior to founding SELWYN'S LAW, Selwyn managed a group of attorneys and paraprofessionals in Fireman's Fund Insurance Company's Claims Department, where she was responsible for auditing the claims and case handling practices, performance, fees, and expenses of outside defense counsel.

Before joining Fireman's Fund, Selwyn spent the preceding 17 years as a financial services industry consumer advocate. She held leadership positions at the Law Offices of Public Advocates and The Greenlining Coalition, was a consumer representative to the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan, and founded and still leads the non-profit Economic Empowerment Foundation, whose mission is to educate urban dwellers, small business owners, and women about their rights and responsibilities as financial services industry consumers, while advocating on their behalf before regulatory and governmental bodies. Between 1993 through 1998, she was selected by the Officers of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to represent the interests of California insurance consumers before that body as one of only 12 Consumer Representatives from around the country. In that role she helped provide the consumer's perspective to the Commissioners and their staff during their deliberations on model insurance laws and regulations.

In the fall of 1998, nearly two decades after receiving her undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Selwyn entered law school and obtained her J.D. from New College of California, School of Law . She then went on to Golden Gate University, School of Law to obtain two legal masters degrees: One, a Master of the Laws of Taxation, with honors and the other, a Master of the Laws of Intellectual Property. Selwyn is admitted to practice in California and also holds a California Real Estate Brokers License and has demonstrated a life-long commitment to helping people solve their financial problems and lead a more economically empowered lives.

Since 2010, Selwyn has produced and hosts the weekly talk show, SELWYN'S LAW, airing Saturday mornings on KDIA and KDYA in the San Francisco Bay Area. The show provides its listeners with practical, down-to-earth and legal jargon-free information about finance, taxation, real estate and bankruptcy law. In 2011, Selwyn was awarded the prestigious Volunteer of the Year Award by the Alameda County Bar Association's Volunteer Legal Services Corporation for her pro bono bankruptcy and tax work for low income residence in Alameda County. And in 2012, Selwyn accepted the invitation of the Monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement to participate as a member of his National Mortgage Settlement Working Group.