Mr. Charles Redd

Council Member Biography

Charles "Clary" Redd is Partner at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Missouri, where he concentrates his practice in estate planning, estate and trust administration and estate and trust-related litigation, directs the Trusts and Estates Practice in St. Louis. He has extensive experience and expertise in the drafting of wills, trust instruments, durable powers of attorney, pre-nuptial agreements and other estate planning documents; pre- and post-death tax planning for individuals, trusts and estates; preparation and filing of estate tax returns, gift tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns; representation of individual and corporate fiduciaries; and litigation in the Probate Division and other equity divisions of the Circuit Court. Mr. Redd has worked on estates and estate planning projects each involving assets valued at several hundred million dollars and has successfully handled numerous estate tax, gift tax and generation-skipping transfer tax matters, will and trust construction cases, will contests, contests of trust agreements and other types of cases involving estates and trusts. Previously, he was Partner at Armstrong Teasdale and was Chairman of Trusts & Estates Department. Mr. Redd is a Fellow of The American College of Trusts and Estate Counsel (Estate and Gift Tax Committee and Fiduciary Litigation Committee) and an Adjunct Professor of Law (Estate Planning) at Northwestern University School of Law. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

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Partner, SONNENSCHEIN, NATH & ROSENTHAL, LLP