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Kathleen specializes in estate, business and executive benefits planning and estate and executive compensation planning with life insurance.  Formerly, she was a member at 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.. She is a member of the Missouri, Illinois and Pennsylvania 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 adjunct professor in the LLM program at Washington University’s School of Law.  She is a founding member 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 is a member of the Business Insurance & Estate Planning Committee of the Association of Advanced Life Underwriting (AALU), and was selected as a Registered Player Financial Advisor for the National Football League Players Association.  She was formerly on the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) and currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Legacy Advisors and as President of the Society of Financial Service Professionals-Greater St. Louis Chapter.  She was named one of Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s Up and Coming Lawyers and received the Accredited Estate Planner designation from the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.  She has presented at AALU and the Top of the Table Meeting for the Million Dollar Roundtable.  Kathleen was selected for inclusion in Missouri and Kansas SuperLawyers in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Ira has been practicing law in the St. Louis area for over thirty years.  He concentrates his practice in the areas of business law, labor and employment relations and business litigation.  Ira’s litigation experience includes both jury and non-jury trials in the state and federal courts and representing clients before the National Labor Relations Board and various federal and state agencies.  He has extensive experience in advising clients on a variety of corporate matters including labor and employment issues, mergers and acquisitions, contracts and business planning.  Ira has also handled matters before various arbitration panels in the securities industry representing both financial advisors and individual investors. He is a founding member of Affinity Law Group, LLC.

Brad counsels and represents companies and entrepreneurs in a broad range of corporate and real estate transactions, with extensive experience in the following areas: (i) new business formation, funding and strategy; (ii) business succession, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; (iii) private equity and venture capital transactions; (iv) general business counseling; (v) drafting and negotiating all types of commercial contracts; (vi) structuring, negotiating and documenting credit facilities, loans and other financing arrangements; and (vii) all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, financing, development, sale, and leasing of retail, office, hotels and other commercial properties.. Brad has experience with companies in a number of different industries, including manufacturing, distribution, construction, oil and gas, precision machining, hotels, restaurants, financial services, employment staffing, biomedical, life sciences, transportation, medical goods and services, software, technology, telecommunications and consumer goods.  Brad is a founding member of Affinity Law Group, LLC.

Bob practices in the areas of business emergence, growth, mergers and acquisitions, capital transactions and reorganization, often finding himself in more of a strategic advisory role. He represents clients in the full range of leveraged buyouts, stock and asset acquisitions of public and private companies, divestitures, spin-offs, going private transactions, and the like. Transactions range in size from start up to several hundred million dollars, domestically as well as globally. Bob also provides advice and counsel to individuals and businesses concerning general business representation, taxation, estate planning, succession planning, real estate contracts, commercial lending, debt documentation and UCC. Bob is a founding member of Affinity Law Group, LLC.

Blase & Associates, LLC is a St. Louis and Metro East area Better Business Bureau A+ Accredited law firm practicing primarily in the estate planning, elder care, tax, asset protection and probate areas.  The firm was formed in 1999 by James G. Blase, an AV Preeminent rated estate planning attorney, after spending the first 17 years of his legal career with two large downtown law firms.  Mr. Blase is also an adjunct professor of estate planning at St. Louis University School of Law.. The firm's mission is to offer the finest quality estate and tax planning services available today, but at deeply discounted billing rates.  The firm also prides itself in the promptness of its services, usually completing drafts of estate planning documents within one to two weeks of meeting with clients.

Experienced Estate Planning attorney serving clients in Saint Louis and surrounding areas.

Experienced Estate Planning attorney serving clients in Saint Louis and surrounding areas.

Experienced Estate Planning attorney serving clients in Saint Louis and surrounding areas.