Michael is a principal of Sterling Financial Group, Inc, an independent financial planning and investment advisory firm in Pasadena, California. Michael specializes in working with professionals, owners of closely held business, and those clients with estate or other complicated financial issues. Michael assists his clients in defining and implementing their financial, philanthropic and multi-generational planning strategies. Michael has been a financial advisor since 1989, and earned his law degree (J.D.) from Southwestern University School of Law, in Los Angeles, California, with an emphasis in the fields of tax and estate planning. He has extensive training in the charitable gift planning