The POWER List: Kathleen R. Sherby

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, St. Louis

Kathleen Sherby is senior counsel in BCLP’s private client group and a member of the fiduciary litigation team.

Sherby’s practice ranges from wealth transfer planning and estate planning for retirement benefits to representing trustees and beneficiaries on fiduciary issues and developing effective business succession plans.

She is heavily involved with the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, where she is a fellow, a past president and a regent emeritus, as well as a former chair of Its employee benefits in estate planning committee and as Missouri state chair.

Sherby also has served as chair of the probate and trust committee of The Missouri Bar, as chair of the Probate section of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, as president of the Estate Planning Council of St. Louis and as a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

She holds an Accredited Estate Planner designation through the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils. She earned her law degree from Saint Louis University in 1976.