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Carolyn M. Ohlsen
Senior Legal Counselor at Lowenhaupt & Chasnoff, LLC |
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Carolyn has fifteen years of experience advising individuals and families on issues of wealth
transmission. As Senior Legal Counselor, Carolyn shares responsibility for Practice
Management, creating and administering practices for effective utilization of the firm's legal
expertise and high quality client representation.
Her practice involves all phases of estate, trust and partnership planning including federal
estate tax, administration and legacy development. Among her areas of special focus is the
representation of family-led businesses and succession planning. She has been an instructor
of professional level courses in estate, trust and property law, and frequently lectures and
chairs programs on sophisticated estate planning topics, income tax structuring for retirement
assets, and transfer taxes, particularly the generation-skipping tax. She has been interviewed
and cited as an authority in such areas by a broad range of nationally-recognized tax,
business and wealth publications.
A member of the Board of Directors of the Estate Planning Council of St. Louis and Chair of
the ABA Section of Taxation's Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
Subcommittee. She is a member of the New York Bar, the Probate and Trust Sections of the
American Bar Association, Missouri Bar and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis,
where she serves on the Steering Committee. A sustainer of the Junior League of St. Louis,
Carolyn has served on its strategic planning task force, and is involved in its charitable
activities. She also serves on committees for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and the Ladue
School District.
In addition to receiving her law degree, cum laude, Carolyn earned both her undergraduate
degree as a finance major, magna cum laude, and a Masters Degree in Business Administration
from Saint Louis University, where she received recognition for concentration in
the computer sciences and was elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor
Society for excellence in the School of Business Administration. |
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