Kim Kamin is a partner at Gresham Partners, LLC, an independent multi-family office that currently invests ~$13 billion for about 130 ultra-high net worth families nationally. At Gresham, Ms. Kamin is Chief Wealth Strategist, leading Gresham’s development and implementation of estate, wealth transfer, philanthropic, educational, and fiduciary planning activities. Previously she was a partner in the Private Clients, Trusts and Estates Group at a large nationally recognized law firm where for many years her legal practice involved all aspects of trust and estate planning, administration, dispute resolution; advising families and their privately held businesses on a wide array of wealth preservation, asset protection and succession planning issues; and serving as counsel for the formation and operation of not-for-profit entities.
Since 2003, Ms. Kamin has been an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law where she was awarded the William M. Trumbull Lectureship, and has taught Advanced Trusts and Estates, Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates, and Estate Planning. Since 2017 she has also been on faculty for the Certified Private Wealth Advisor® (CPWA®) program through the University of 91勛圖厙 School of Business Executive Education.
Ms. Kamin is a Regent for the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), Past President of the Chicago Estate Planning Council, and serves on the Advisory Board, Leaders Council and as Estate Planning & Legal Issues Domain Chair for the UHNW Institute. She serves on advisory boards for multiple local philanthropic organizations and is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago. She also serves on the Founders' Committee for the University of Chicago Center of Law and Finance.
Ms. Kamin is on the UHNW Families & Family Offices Committee of the Trusts & Estates Magazine Editorial Advisory Board, on the Investment & Wealth Monitor Editorial Advisory Board, and has authored numerous pieces at http://wealthmanagement.com/author/kimkamin. She has published on a wide variety of topics and is also a frequent lecturer in a variety of venues across the country (including, but not limited to, ACTEC, AICPA Engage, ALI-CLE, Family Office Exchange, Great Plains Federal Tax Institute, Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, Hawaii Tax Institute, Kansas City Estate Planning Symposium, Montana Tax Institute, Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute, Purposeful Planning Institute, Sacramento Estate Planning Council Technical Forum, Seattle Estate Planning Seminar, South Dakota Trust Association, Southern Federal Tax Institute, Tulane Tax Institute, and UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute).
She is co-executive editor and co-author for the Leimberg Library Tools & Techniques book, Estate Planning for Modern Families (4th Ed. 2024), and she has been a contributing author for chapters in books, including the recent Wealth of Wisdom: Top Practices for Wealthy Families and Their Advisors.
Professional awards and recognitions include Citywealth Powerwomen Award – Career Achievement (2024), Illinois Attorney Under 40 To Watch (2009) & Top Women in Law Awards Salute (2023) both by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company, The Best Lawyers in America® in the practice areas of both Trusts and Estates, and Litigation - Trusts & Estates, U.S. News and World Report, an Illinois Rising Star in Illinois Super Lawyers, a Super Lawyer in Illinois Super Lawyers, a Leading Lawyer in Trust, Will & Estate Planning Law with the Illinois Leading Lawyer Network, and "AV Rated" by Martindale-Hubbell. Kim is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Ms. Kamin received her B.A., with distinction and departmental honors in Psychology, from Stanford University and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. She is an AEP® (Distinguished) and a 21/64 Certified Advisor.