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, rising generation engagement and education, and philanthropic matters.
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 entity restructuring, succession planning, trust and estate administration, asset protection, and philanthropic issues. She also represented wealth owners, beneficiaries, fiduciaries, and custodians in contested matters and served as counsel for the formation and operation of not-for-profit entities.
Outside of the office, Kim is an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and on the faculty of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education. She is on the UHNW Families & Family Offices Committee of the Trusts & Estates Magazine Editorial Advisory Board, is Past President of the Chicago Estate Planning Council, and serves on the Leaders Council and as Estate Planning & Legal Issues Domain Chair for the UNHW Institute. She also serves on the Founders’ Committee for the University of Chicago Center of Law and Finance. In addition, Kim serves on advisory boards for multiple local philanthropic organizations, including Art Institute of Chicago, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Foundation for Women, Lurie Children’s Hospital, PAWS Chicago and the Chicago Community Trust. Kim speaks and writes extensively on topics related to planning for and managing multi-generational wealth. She co-authors the “Leimberg Library Tools & Techniques of Estate Planning for Modern Families” (4th Edition, 2024).
- 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
