Experience
Legal Expertise
Christina Lewis is a Partner in Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp's Los Angeles office. Christina's background in estate planning, trust administration, asset protection and business law gives her clients unique access to cross-disciplinary insight. She works with clients to plan and implement strategies to transfer family wealth and accomplish personal goals in a tax efficient manner. Christina advises fiduciaries in trust and estate administrations.
The other part of her practice focuses on providing clients with comprehensive transactional services for a wide array of corporate and business transactions, including the purchase and sale of assets, the purchase and sale of shares, incorporations, dissolutions, assignments, transfers, terminations, partnerships, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing and other complex or commercial business arrangements. The transactional side of her practice includes drafting, negotiating and advising clients on all types of documents and agreements, including shareholder, partnership and joint venture agreements, by-laws, association agreements, severance agreements, employment agreements, consulting agreements, noncompetition and nondisclosure agreements, representation agreements, management services agreements, leases, franchise agreements, license agreements, distribution agreements and other agreements and documents used in the operation of our clients’ businesses.
Professional, Business and civic Affiliations
- ProVisors Professionals Networking Group, Executive Committee, Membership Chair
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Trust and Estates Section; Business Law
- California Lawyers Association, Trust and Estates Section
- Torrance Memorial Foundation, Professional Advisory Council (PAC)
- South Bay Bar Association
Other Career Experience
- Of Counsel, Parker, Milliken, Clark, O’Hara & Samuelian
- Attorney-at-Law, Law Office of Christina Lewis
- EVP and Outside General Counsel, PAGO, Inc.
- Senior Associate, Century Group
- Associate, O’Melveny & Myers
Headlines
Headlines
Events & Speaking Engagements
- Estate Planning in 4D: Real Estate, Business, Tax, and Environment
September 12, 2025 –California Lawyers Association (CLA) 2025 Annual Meeting - Funding Trusts and Other Post-Drafting Care
October 28, 2024 – National Business Institute (NBI) - California Estate Administration from Start to Finish
August 14, 2024 – National Business Institute (NBI) - Using LLCs in Estate Planning
February 1, 2024 – Estate Planning and Trust Council, Long Beach - Using LLCs To Plan For The Family Vacation Home
October 19, 2023 – Wealth Counsel - Securing Your Loved Ones' Well-being
October 12, 2023 – Pinnacle Legacy Law - Using LLCs in Estate Planning: The Basics
June 29, 2023 – National Business Institute (NBI) - California Trusts Guide
May 22, 2023 – National Business Institute (NBI) - Importance of Living Trusts
September 8, 2022 – West San Gabriel Valley Realtors - Why Every Adult Needs an Estate Plan
September 1, 2022 – KHTS AM1220 / FM98.1 - The Basics of Cabin Trusts: Structure Use, Maintenance, Transfer of Ownership, and More
April 19, 2022 - National Business Institute (NBI) - Real Property Issues in Estate Administration
December 9, 2021 – Professional Fiduciary Association of California (PFAC) - Prop 19 Impacts on Property Tax and Estate Planning
February 3, 2021 – Chinese American Real Estate Professionals Association (CAREPA)
Practice Areas
Admissions
- California
Education
- Loyola Law School, J.D.
- Articles Editor, The Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
- University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.
Languages
- Mandarin Chinese, Spoken – Fluent level
