About Sil
Sil Vossler, Esq.,
Prior to founding The Vossler Law Firm, Sil worked as the Senior Elder Law Attorney at Open Door Legal, a San Francisco-based nonprofit law firm. There, Sil built an innovative elder law department, designed to prevent displacement from San Francisco’s low-income communities of color by providing strategic probate, estate planning, and financial abuse litigation services to San Francisco’s most vulnerable residents. This work allowed many in San Francisco’s most underserved communities to retain intergenerational wealth and avoid displacement from the community, narrowing the racial wealth gap.
Sil’s work led him to recognize the importance of taking on strategic litigation to advance policy objectives. In his role at Open Door Legal, Sil took on significant foreclosure litigation, including, among others, cases against major banks and lenders for financial abuse and wrongful foreclosure. Sil was able to prevent and even reverse foreclosures of his clients’ homes, recover millions of dollars for his clients and hold institutional bad actors accountable for their actions.
Seeing a deep need for oversight and regulation targeted to combat predatory lending and foreclosure practices designed to extract wealth from vulnerable communities, Sil started The Vossler Law Firm to take a small number of high-importance hard money lending and foreclosure cases which highlight how predators use these financial instruments to unlawfully take wealth from distressed homeowners. Sil uses each of his cases to draft and advance legislation designed to protect California’s public.
Boards: Sil is a member of the legal services subdivision of California’s Elder and Disability Justice Coordinating Council, a multidisciplinary counsel of experts providing recommendations to the CA Department of Aging and CA Department of Justice to prevent and address the abuse, neglect, exploitation, and fraud perpetrated against older adults and adults with disabilities; he is a member of the Advisory Board for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the California Elder Justice Coalition.
I frequently teach CLE’s on Financial Elder Abuse, Predatory Lending, and Breach of Fiduciary Duty.
Selected for Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2023 & 2024.
Prior to his work at Open Door Legal, Sil worked as an Assistant Attorney General and Charles F.C. Ruff Fellow at The Office of the Attorney General for the the city of Washington, D.C., where he litigated civil cases on the city’s behalf. Sil has also held volunteer attorney positions with the Homeless Action Center in Berkeley, California and the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. .
Sil enjoys cooking, hiking, and walks to the neighborhood dog park with his wife, Aja, their son Dash and their dog Jade.
B.A. - The University of Rochester; J.D. - The George Washington University Law School.
