Kathleen W. Bilderback, JD, LL.M.

Member, Affinity Law Group, LLC

Kathleen graduated from St. Louis University with degrees in Accounting and Theater.  She received her law degree and LL.M. in Taxation from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.  She is the recipient of the Gary I. Boren Memorial Award for attaining the highest overall grade point average in the LL.M. program.

Kathleen specializes in estate, business and executive benefits planning and estate and executive compensation planning with life insurance.  Formerly, she was a memeber of the Advanced Markets Group of MetLife, where she provided training and advanced underwriting support for the top producers of MetLife and its subsidiaries.  Prior to joining GenAmerica Financial (a MetLife company) in 1996, she was in private practice with a firm in St. Louis County concentraing in Estate Planning and Adminisration, Corporate Law and Corporate Litigation.

She is a member of the Missouri and Illinois bars as well as an active member of the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.  She is a nationally recognized speaker and author and adjuct professor in the LL.M. program at Washington University's School of Law.  She is a founding memeber of Affinity Law Group, LLC, a firm dedicated to providing legal services to businesses, their owners and executives at every stage of their life cycles.  She was recently named one of Missouri Lawyers Weekly's Up and Coming Lawyers.