{"id":41,"date":"2010-11-11T15:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T22:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2011-10-12T17:12:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T00:12:47","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My name is Roger Billings.\u00a0 I am\u00a0an attorney with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/\">my own practice<\/a> in Roseville, outside of Sacramento, in Northern California. Our practice focuses on estate planning, probate, trust administration, business entity formation and business planning.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\">The Law Office of Roger Billings<\/a>\u00a0produces the Placer Estate Planning Blog for the purpose of keeping clients and friends informed regarding the subjects of wills, trusts, estate planning, probate and related topics.<\/p>\n<p><small><a title=\"Prospector\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48806909@N00\/497511638\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/222\/497511638_e98b92f023_m.jpg\" alt=\"Prospector\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Placer&#8221; refers to the mining of gold nuggets or other precious metals by washing and sifting alluvial deposits in a stream bed.\u00a0 The Placer Estate Planning Blog seeks to mine nuggets of valuable estate planning information and make them easily available to its readers.\u00a0 Placer is also the name of the California County east of Sacramento, containing the city of Roseville.<\/p>\n<p>I am a member of the State Bar of California (member, Estate Planning Section); Sacramento Bar Association (member, Estate Planning Section); and<strong> <\/strong>Placer County Bar Association. I am a member of the board and past chair of the Sacramento Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society.\u00a0I earned a B.A. degree from Brigham Young University in 1987\u00a0and\u00a0my J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York City in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for visiting!<\/p>\n<p><small>Gold Miner <a title=\"Attribution License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absMiddle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> credit: <a title=\"ToOliver2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48806909@N00\/497511638\/\" target=\"_blank\">ToOliver2<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My name is Roger Billings.\u00a0 I am\u00a0an attorney with my own practice in Roseville, outside of Sacramento, in Northern California. Our practice focuses on estate planning, probate, trust administration, business entity formation and business planning.\u00a0The Law Office of Roger &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/about-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}