Kim Kamin

Kim Kamin is a Principal at Gresham Partners, LLC where she serves as Chief Wealth Strategist and a Client Advisor. She leads Gresham’s development and implementation of estate, wealth transfer, philanthropic and fiduciary planning activities, and advises clients. Previously she was a partner in the Private Clients, Trusts and Estates Group at Schiff Hardin LLP where for many years her legal practice involved all aspects of trust and estate planning, administration and dispute resolution; advising families and closely held businesses on a wide array of wealth preservation, asset protection and succession planning issues; representing fiduciaries, custodians, and beneficiaries in estate administration and contested trust and estate matters; and serving as counsel for the formation and operation of not-for-profit entities. Ms. Kamin is an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University School of Law where she has been awarded the William M. Trumbull Lectureship, and has taught Advanced Trusts and Estates, the Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates, and Estate Planning.

Ms. Kamin is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Trusts and Estates Magazine. She has published on a wide variety of topics and is also a frequent lecturer in a variety of venues (including Family Office Exchange, ALI-CLE, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Chicago Estate Planning Council, Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Annual Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute, Tulane Tax Institute, and CLE International’s Visual Arts and the Law Conference). She is also an "Xpert" for Trust & Estates' IdeaXchange, http://wealthmanagement.com/author/kim-kamin. She has co-edited the recently released book, Estate Planning for Modern Families for the Leimberg Library Tools & Techniques series.

Ms. Kamin serves on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Estate Planning Council, the Chicago Community Trust Professional Advisory Council, the Art Institute of Chicago Gift Planning Advisory Committee, the Northwestern Memorial Foundation Council for Philanthropy, the Goodman Theatre Spotlight Advisory Council, and the Chicago Foundation for Women Professional Advisory Council. She also serves on the Chicago Stanford Association’s Board of Leaders. She is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, where she has served on several committees. Ms. Kamin is a Fellow with the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel where she chairs the New Fellows Steering Committee and the Wealth Strategist and Fiduciary Counsel Subcommittee.

Professional awards and recognitions include Illinois Attorney Under 40 To Watch by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company (2008), The Best Lawyers in America® in the practice areas of both Trusts and Estates, and Litigation - Trusts & Estates (2011-present), selected as an Illinois Rising Star in Illinois Super Lawyers (2009, 2011), selected to Illinois Super Lawyers (2011- 2014), Leading Lawyer in Trust, Will & Estate Planning Law with the Illinois Leading Lawyer Network (2010-2014), and "AV Rated" by Martindale-Hubbell. Ms. Kamin is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Ms. Kamin received her B.A., with distinction and departmental honors, from Stanford University and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Education

• J.D. University of Chicago Law School
• B.A. Stanford University
• Francis W. Parker School

Companies

• Executive Program Instructor The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2017)
• Principal and Chief Wealth Strategist Gresham Partners, LLC (2014)
• Fellow and Regent The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) (2010)
• Adjunct Professor Northwestern University School of Law (2003)
• Partner in Private Clients, Trusts and Estates Schiff Hardin LLP (1997 — 2014)