Javed Ellahie

Elected Vice Mayor in 2025 Elected to the Monte Sereno City Council November 2018. Estate Planning Attorney, Mediator and Arbitratrator Applying decades of experience to drafting wills, trusts, simple and complex estate plans. Practice Areas: Estate Planning and Trusts, bankruptcy law. Appointed as a Bankruptcy Dispute Resolution Advocate under the Bankruptcy Court’s Resolution Advocate Program to assisted bankruptcy litigants in resolving their cases through mediation. Mediation practice includes creditor/debtor and business contract disputes. Served as a Judge Pro-tem for the Superior Court of Santa Clara County. Appointed Trustee to the West Valley Mission Community College Board. Board responsible for managing a Fifty Million Dollar budget and dealing with host of contract and personnel issues. Elected Trustee on the Santa Clara County Bar Association Board, in 1995 & 1997. Appointed to its Executive Committee in 1997 & 1998. Taught at the Trial Advocacy Program at Stanford University Law School & at the University of San Francisco Law School. Also taught classes at Lincoln Law School. Panelist in Specialization Seminars involving: fraudulent conveyance, bankruptcy law and bankruptcy issues related to trusts. Undergraduate: Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (B.S.E.E.), cum laude, California State University, Fresno; Santa Clara University Law School (1974) cum laude; LLM (Taxation), honors, Golden Gate University. Co-Counsel International office: Pakistan: Muneer A. Malik, CPA, JD (Santa Clara, summa cum laude), Karachi, Pakistan Other Languages: Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi Licensed: U.S. Supreme Court, California Supreme Court, United States District Courts, High Court Pakistan. Practice Emphasis: Probate, Estate Planning and Trusts (including Islamic Wills and Trusts),