Firm History
Meet Len Tillem Len Tillem has been a practicing attorney since being admitted to the State Bar of California in 1972. On the Len Tillem Program, heard on KGO AM-810, each weekday from 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM and Sundays, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Len answers general legal questions, provides legal advice, and solves legal problems, live and on the air. Len's career in radio began on January 2, 1990 on KVON in Napa, California, ten years to the day prior to the debut of his regular weekend program on KGO. Tillem broadcasts The Len Tillem Program from a custom-built studio within his law offices in Sonoma, California.
Len Tillem's law practice, Len Tillem and Associates, concentrates on Elder Law. Elder Law is a specialized field of law focusing on the unique needs of the elderly. Elder Law includes such topics as Estate Planning and Estate Tax Avoidance, Wills and Probate, Trusts and Trust Administration, Long Term Care Planning including Medi-Cal Planning, and Elder Abuse. Len is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. Len also served as a delegate to the 1993 White House Conference on Aging.
In addition to his radio program and law practice, Len and attorney Rosamonde McNichol, also of Len Tillem and associates, write a newspaper column focusing on senior legal issues. The column is published in four Bay Area newspapers, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the Napa Valley Register, the Vacaville Reporter and the Sonoma Index-Tribune, and two newspapers in Lake County, the Lake County Record Bee and the Clearlake Observer. The column also appears in the monthly PrimeLife supplement of the San Francisco Chronicle, published the first Sunday of each month.
Tillem is a native of New York City, having migrated to Sonoma County in the early 1970's. He earned a Bachelor's of Arts degree at Brooklyn College, and his law degree at New York University. A resident of Sonoma, California, Tillem is married and has two children.