Bundle: Basic Wills, Trusts, and Estates for Paralegals, Ninth Edition with The Law Simulation Series: Wills, Trusts, and Estates

John K. Hanft, Co-Director of the Witkin Legal Institute at Thomson West, has been a member of the California Bar since 1976, and a member of the Witkin staff since 1981. He and his co-director supervise the writing and publication of the Witkin treatises and oversee the programs of the Witkin Legal Institute. These include the annual Roger J. Traynor Appellate Moot Court Competition, and annual programs in Oakland, Sacramento, Fresno, San Diego, and Los Angeles, and at the State Bar of California Annual Meeting.

Mr. Hanft is the author of Legal Research in California (5th). A presentation he gave on electronic legal research, entitled A Model for Legal Research in the Electronic Age, has been published in 17(3) Legal Reference Services Quarterly 77 (1999). His one-hour continuing legal education lecture video, entitled Effective Legal Research, was produced by the Rutter Group in 2001.

Mr. Hanft has been a faculty member in the paralegal program at San Francisco State University since 1984, teaching (1) Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning; (2) Legal Research and Writing; and (3) Advanced Legal Research. He frequently appears as a guest lecturer at law schools and law firms. For ten years, Mr. Hanft performed pro bono estate planning for clients of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He received pro bono volunteer awards in 1989 and 1992.

Mr. Hanft has a B.A. from Reed College, a J.D. from the University of Oregon, and an M.B.A. in taxation from Golden Gate University.