Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Tax, Employee Benefits and Private Client

Counsel - Corporate and Finance Transactions

As a member of the firm’s Private Client group, Elizabeth Schlesinger concentrates her practice on estate planning and administration, with a focus on wealth transfer tax planning, She assists individuals and families with sophisticated trust and estate planning, estate and gift tax matters, and trust and probate administration.  She additionally assists closely-held business owners in developing and implementing intergenerational succession planning strategies.

Ms. Schlesinger handles the drafting of estate planning documents including medical directives, durable powers of attorney, wills and "pour-over" wills, and various trusts. She also drafts business succession documents, private loan and refinance documents, and basic real estate documents including private leases and various deeds. Ms. Schlesinger has experience establishing business entities such as LPs and LLCs and overseeing the administration of irrevocable trusts, estates, and probate.

While attending law school at Washington University in St. Louis, Ms. Schlesinger received the Dean’s Book Award and CALI Excellence for the Future Awards. She also served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and Policy and participated in a variety of activities including the class gift committee and Outlaw.

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT & HONORS The Best Lawyers in America : Ones to Watch- Tax & Trusts and Estates, 2020-2024 Human Rights Campaign, National Board of Directors, Member The MUNY, Board of Directors, Member United Hebrew Congregation, Board of Trustees, Member Washington University School of Law OUTLaw Distinguished Alumni Award, 2014 Washington University School of Law OUTLaw Distinguished Alumni Award, 2011 Washington University School of Law Dean’s Book Award, 2008 CALI Excellence for the Future Award, Estate Planning & Drafting: Advanced Topics, 2008 CALI Excellence for the Future Award, Family Wealth Planning and Drafting, 2007 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Editor-in-Chief PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Bar Association Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), Member Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis Lawyers for Equality