More About Stewart
Stewart Albertson is a California trust, estate, and probate litigation attorney who represents beneficiaries and heirs when a will or trust has been hijacked, an inheritance has been stolen, or a trustee has decided to serve themselves instead of the people they were supposed to protect. He understands that clients rarely come to him on a good day. They come because someone they loved is gone and someone they trusted has let them down. Stewart’s job is to steady the situation, explain what the law actually allows, and pursue the strongest possible result.
That instinct to protect people runs through everything he’s done. Before law school, Stewart served honorably as a paratrooper with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, including a year along the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea with the Second Infantry Division. He carried that discipline into the courtroom, where preparation and nerve decide cases.
Stewart has spent his career in civil litigation — including both bench and jury trials. Early on, he handled catastrophic personal injury and mass tort matters that produced several significant verdicts, including a $5.7 million jury verdict in a wrongful death case and, alongside a team of other lawyers, more than $50 million recovered in a product liability claim. During those same years he was also handling trust, estate, and probate matters — and that work is now his full-time focus. He has tried many trust, estate, and probate cases and has helped recover more than $355 million for the firm’s clients.
Stewart was nominated for Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 for three consecutive years, and recognized as a Super Lawyer every year from 2016 through 2024.
Stewart earned his Juris Doctor from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. — a background that gives him a sharp command of the financial machinery underneath most trust and estate fights.
He also believes people shouldn’t need a law degree to understand their own rights. Stewart co-hosts the YouTube channel Ask 2 Lawyers, where he breaks down real litigation with clarity, candor, and a trial lawyer’s wit — making the law accessible without watering it down.
Away from the office, Stewart is an instrument-rated pilot who flies himself to client meetings across the country, a motorcyclist, and a mountain biker. The common thread is the same one his clients count on: a calm hand, a clear head, and the willingness to go the distance.
If someone has taken what your family was meant to inherit, Stewart Albertson is the attorney you want in your corner. Contact us for a free, confidential case evaluation.
You can learn more about Stewart’s journey—from the battlefield to the courtroom to the cockpit—in his video interview with aviation expert Joe Casey of Casey Aviation, or catch a behind-the-scenes glimpse of his love of flight in the companion video below.
