Kim Kamin
Kim joined Gresham in 2014. Her role involves working across all client families and supporting the client service team in helping clients with their estate planning, estate and trust administration, philanthropy, family learning, and rising generation engagement and education.
Prior to Gresham, Kim was a partner in Private Clients, Trusts, and Estates Group at a large national law firm known for the quality of its estate planning practice, working with clients on a wide array of succession planning, trust and estate administration, asset protection, entity restructuring, and charitable issues. She also represented wealth owners, beneficiaries, fiduciaries, and custodians in contested matters and served as counsel for the formation and operation of non-profits.
Outside of the office, Kim is 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. She is also on faculty for the Certified Private Wealth Advisor® (CPWA®) program through the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education.
Kim is a Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), is Past President of the Chicago Estate Planning Council, and serves on the Advisory Board, Leaders Council and as Estate Planning & Legal Domain Chair for the UHNW Institute. She also serves on the Founders’ Committee for the University of Chicago Center of Law and Finance.
Kim is on the UHNW Families & Family Offices Committee of the Trusts & Estates Magazine Editorial Advisory Board, on the Investments & Wealth Review 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.
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 Wealth of Wisdom: Top Practices for Wealthy Families and Their Advisors (2022).
She serves on advisory boards for multiple local philanthropic organizations: the Chicago Community Trust Professional Advisory Council, the Art Institute of Chicago Gift Planning Advisory Committee, the Northwestern Memorial Foundation Professional Council for Philanthropy, the Goodman Theatre Spotlight Advisory Council, the Chicago Foundation for Women Professional Advisory Council, WTTW/WFMT Planned Giving Advisory Committee, PAWS T&E Professional Advisory Board (Chair), and the Executive Committee for the Lurie Children’s Legacy Partners. 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.
- B.A., Psychology, Stanford University, with distinction and departmental honors
- J.D., University of Chicago Law School
- Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, awarded the William M. Trumbull Lectureship
- Faculty, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education
