“Failing to Plan is Planning to FAIL.” – Ben Franklin

Kathy McHugh

Legal Triage Director

Kathy McHugh has a variety of interesting responsibilities at LA LAW Center. Basically, she is taking her vast knowledge of business development, operations management, financial investment training, elder care training and using it to support the office operations and business development of her husband’s law firm. She is also very proud of her work that has produced many wonderful Google and YELP reviews from happy clients and the returning clients or referrals to LA Law Center.

As “Triage Director”, Kathy makes a point of speaking all clients or potential clients to properly “TRIAGE” them and determine how to help get their issues properly addressed in a timely manner. She conducts all initial consultations to respond to their immediate questions and project manages case deadlines, which allows her husband, Joe (LA Law Center’s founding attorney) and his legal team to concentrate on completely legal work on the scheduled active client cases. She spends a lot of time on the phone with pre-scheduled phone appointments.

SShe also is a Medi-Cal expert and guides our clients to qualify for Medi-CAL Long Term Care (nursing home) benefits planning and files successful Medi-CAL applications for our clients. Kathy is well versed and a great resource of information about seniors’ needs in legal, financial, health, and social issues. After many years of formal training and experience with seniors in crisis, she is happy to be able to help families in crisis with information that helps them maneuver through the elder care maze in California which is always changing and have LA LAW Center provide any legal documents needed.

Before she joined LA LAW Center, Kathy worked in a financial investment firm and before that, she was the founder of a boutique consulting company, called KMC Consulting. Here with over 20 years of business planning and management experience in international leisure and media business development (after 13 initial formative years with the Walt Disney World in Orlando & Walt Disney Imagineering on the team that built EPCOT Center). Kathy has developed a well-respected, internationally recognized reputation for providing professional consulting services, including operational “fatal flaws” analysis, new business development, operational planning and troubleshooting for a variety of leisure related businesses.

When the 9/11 World Trade Center Disaster happened, Kathy as principal of KMC Consulting, was on assignment in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. After taking many days to find a flight back to LAX and seeing that internation travel was not something she wished to continue, Kathy made a critical decision to close her international consulting business and help her husband, Joe McHugh operate and expand his law practice here in Southern California.

Today, she uses all this combined experience in her daily operational work at LA Law Center. Kathy is personally fulfilled in helping clients and their families that need help in “getting their affairs in order” and protect their hard-earned assets!

Kathy lives in Southern California with her husband and two children (that have both finished their college and PHD educations and are now full-fledged working, successful California residents…YAY!). She loves gardening, hosting family & friends feasts, and taking care of the menagerie of animals at their rural SOCAL home. The animal list keeps growing including a tiny Papillion and two other rescued dogs, a wild peacock named Big Bird (and his growing family). Kathy’s kids call her “Snow White” because of all the animals that show up in her front yard when she steps out of her front door each morning… and she loves it!