Claire Schallenberg is an associate in Lathrop GPM’s Private Client Services practice group. She works with individuals, multigenerational families and the advisors who support them on estate and wealth planning, helping to prepare wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney and other estate planning documents tailored to each family’s goals. Claire also assists the team with gift and estate tax planning, the administration of trusts and estates and the preparation of gift and estate tax returns.
Before joining the firm, Claire clerked in civil litigation and served as a legal fellow in the Office of the Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, where she researched and drafted legal memoranda on city initiatives. She also spent two years as a paralegal department coordinator at a Kansas City law firm.
Claire earned her J.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where she was Lead Articles Editor of the UMKC Law Review and received CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Deferred Compensation and in Estate Planning with Retirement Benefits.