Yufei (Fei) Li
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Yufei (Fei) Li

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li.yufei@dorsey.com

Overview

Fei helps individuals and families navigate their estate planning needs, with an emphasis on sophisticated wealth transfer, multistate, and cross border planning. 

Fei advises U.S. individuals, multi-generational families, business owners, and entrepreneurs on estate planning, wealth transfer, and wealth preservation matters. Her practice focuses on helping clients develop and implement estate plans that align with their financial, tax, and family objectives, particularly when assets, beneficiaries, or planning considerations span multiple states or countries.

Fei helps family offices navigate planning decisions involving complex asset holdings, business interests, and succession and legacy objectives. She works with high-net-worth clients to coordinate revocable and irrevocable trusts, gifting strategies, and other wealth transfer techniques.

She also advises clients on multistate estate planning issues, with significant experience addressing matters involving Washington and California, including residency and domicile changes. Fei is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law by the State Bar of California, the only practitioner with this designation in Seattle and one of only four practitioners in Washington.

Drawing on her experience living and working in China, Fei also advises internationally mobile individuals and families, as well as U.S.-based clients with foreign assets, beneficiaries, or cross-border planning considerations. She brings a practical perspective to multijurisdictional estate planning matters and helps clients address the legal and administrative complexities that can arise when family and financial interests extend internationally.

Education & Admissions

University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (J.D., 2012)

University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 2007)

Admissions

  • Washington
  • California

News & Resources

Industries & Practices

  • China
  • Closely Held Businesses
  • Family Offices
  • Tax
  • Trusts & Estates
  • Trusts & Estates Litigation

Professional & Civic

Professional Achievements

  • Seattle City Lead, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Alumni Leadership Committee, 2026-2027
  • Board Member, Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP) Seattle
  • Asian Bar Association of Washington
  • National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
  • Estate Planning Counsel of Seattle
  • Washington State Bar Association, Taxation Section; Real Property, Probate and Trust Section
  • California Lawyers Association, Trusts & Estates Section
  • Asia Society Seattle
  • Cal Alumni Association
  • Committee of 100 Pipeline Leadership Program, 2018

Accolades

  • Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellowship, Class of 2025
  • Best Lawyers® Ones to Watch in America, 2023-2025
  • Washington Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars," 2020-2023
  • California Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars," 2017-2019
Yufei (Fei) Li