Julie Lanz earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 1994 and her JD from the University of Washington in 2001. Prior to joining Stanford in 2021, she practiced estate planning for fifteen years, first at Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn, in Burlingame, California, and then at Lanz Legal in Menlo Park, California.  She regularly taught “Estate Planning in Plain English” through Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program from 2015-2020.