William Holsinger

Born in San Francisco, William H. “Will” Holsinger grew up In Inverness, a small town in West Marin with a winter population of 400 and a summer population of 800. For a year he lived in Olema, which had a year-round population of 30, not counting the dairy cows. After graduating from an eighth grade class of 24 students at West Marin Elementary School he moved to San Mateo County where he enrolled in Mills High School, with a student population of over 1,200.

Will has lived in San Mateo ever since, except for his time away as an undergraduate at Sonoma State Coolege, law school in San Francisco, and a year in Washington, D.C. as a staff assistant to the late Congressman Leo J. Ryan (Dem. 11th CD), who was killed in South America in 1978. Will Holsinger received his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco in 1978. He is a member of the California State Bar and the San Mateo County Bar Association. He has also participated in many professional and community-based organizations in his 40-year career.

Will Holsinger is an attorney in private practice in the Bay Area. He has been practicing law since 1979. Will serves as personal legal counsel to individuals, professionals and businesses in the evaluation, prevention and resolution of legal risks and disputes. Will often describes himself as the legal equivalent of the family doctor.

Will is also a direct care volunteer with Mission Hospice and Home Care In San Mateo. What is hospice? Hospice, hospice care, hospice facilities is a service, and for some a place, where your needs are attended to as you near the more certain and foreseeable end of your life. These needs do not include curing the disease, illness or condition that you now face. It does include the time, attention and care you need to be reasonably pain free and comfortable, to consider and reconcile yourself to your mortality, to review and recall the events and relationships in your life in a meaningful way, and the opportunity to reconcile old conflicts and issues that you may wish to put to rest. More broadly, it is your opportunity to approach death in the way you want and need, with compassionate, understanding and helpful assistance.

Will has been writing much longer than he has been an attorney. His interests are far broader than the latest supreme court decision in a particular field. Certainly, as a general practice attorney, he needs to keep current in a wide variety of areas of the law. Will loves to learn, to read, to argue. All good qualities in an attorney. As an attorney, Will also needs to be able to understand different sides to any issue or argument.

As Will's creative writing developed and progressed over the years, he found that it focused more often than not on issues of growing old and death. So in 2017 after some limited prior attempts Will decided to get serious about compiling, writing and publishing his first book, A Life Well Lived, A Death Will Met, a book of musings and insights on my relationship and observations about aging, death and dying. And Will continues writing. To see what comes next visit www.williamholsinger.com