Jennifer Jordan McCall

Jennifer Jordan McCall is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and has been named Wealth Management Lawyer of the Year in California, US at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025. The individual award recognises a nationally regarded authority on gift and estate planning whose practice serves some of the most complex private clients in the United States and internationally.

Ms. McCall chairs Pillsbury's Estates, Trusts and Tax Planning practice and serves as co-leader of both the firm's Private Wealth team and its Litigation team for trusts, estates and high-net-worth matters. This leadership across both the planning and the contentious sides of private wealth reflects the breadth of her experience and her standing within one of the world's leading international law firms.

Her practice focuses on the representation of individuals, families, foundations, museums and charities in relation to domestic and international gift and estate planning. She advises clients on estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes, on complex estate administration and estate-related litigation, and on integrating these matters with their wider business objectives. This combination of sophisticated tax planning, administration and dispute experience allows her to guide clients through the full life cycle of wealth transfer, from structuring during their lifetime to administration and, where necessary, litigation.

Ms. McCall's client base is notably broad and prestigious, ranging from internationally renowned museums and corporations to charities, foundations, high-net-worth families and individuals, fiduciaries and non-profit organisations. Serving such varied clients requires not only technical mastery of estate and tax law but also sensitivity to the personal, philanthropic and institutional considerations that shape their decisions, particularly where family, charitable and business interests intersect across jurisdictions.

Her reputation is reflected in sustained external recognition. She has consistently been ranked by Chambers USA and Chambers High Net Worth as a leading lawyer both nationally and in Northern California, and has been named a Super Lawyers Top Rated estate planning and probate attorney over many years. Such recognition, accumulated across two decades, marks her as one of the pre-eminent practitioners in her field.

Wealth management law, encompassing estate and gift planning, trust structuring, charitable giving and the administration and litigation that follow, has grown increasingly complex as families, assets and philanthropic interests span multiple countries and tax systems. Clients at this level require advisers who can combine deep technical knowledge with strategic judgement and discretion. Ms. McCall's leadership of Pillsbury's estates and trusts practice, her cross-border focus and her work for families, foundations and cultural institutions place her firmly among that group.

Her recognition as Wealth Management Lawyer of the Year in California, US at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 affirms her standing as a trusted adviser to high-net-worth clients and institutions. Through Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, she offers sophisticated, internationally minded counsel across the full spectrum of gift and estate planning, administration and related litigation.