The POWER List: Donald W. Paule

Staff Report//April 25, 2022//

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Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, St. Louis

For more than 50 years, Don Paule has enjoyed representing closely held family businesses, helping them to navigate all aspects of shareholder and ownership-succession planning.

Paule is designated as an Accredited Estate Planner by the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils. He also is a member of the Estate Planning Council of St. Louis, Attorneys for Family Held Enterprises and the Family Firm Institute.

He is a former president of the St. Louis County Bar Association and chaired the county’s Civil Service Commission for eight years. He also has served on the West County YMCA, The College School, and the Visiting Nurses Association of Greater St. Louis, and he spent 12 years on the board of Lindenwood University.

Missouri Lawyers Media honored him with an ICON Award in 2020.

Paule earned his law degree in 1966 and his LL.M. in taxation in 1978, both from Washington University. He was an adjunct instructor in the MBA program at the university’s business school for more than 40 years.

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