Charles A. Redd, Partner

Mr. Redd, who concentrates his practice in estate planning, estate and trust administration and estate and trust-related litigation, is Vice Chairman of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP’s Trusts & Estates Practice Group and directs the firm’s trusts and estates practice in St. Louis.  Prior to joining Sonnenschein, Mr. Redd was a partner in the St. Louis office of the law firm of Armstrong, Teasdale, Schlafly & Davis (now Armstrong Teasdale LLP) and was Chairman of that firm’s Trusts & Estates Department.  He was previously employed as a Trust Administrator by First Wisconsin Trust Company (now U.S. Bank, N.A.), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and as an Assistant Counsel by Centerre Trust Company of St. Louis (now U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management).

Mr. Redd has extensive experience and expertise in:  (a) the drafting of wills, trust instruments, durable powers of attorney, pre-nuptial agreements and other estate planning documents; (b) pre- and post-death tax planning for individuals, trusts and estates; (c) preparation and filing of estate tax returns, gift tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns; (d) representation of individual and corporate fiduciaries and (e) 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.

In 1991, Mr. Redd received The Missouri Bar President's Award.

Mr. Redd is a member of the American Bar Association (Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law), the State Bar of Wisconsin, The Missouri Bar (Probate and Trust Committee), the Illinois State Bar Association (Section on Trusts and Estates), The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (Probate and Trust Section, member and past Chairman) and the Estate Planning Council of St. Louis. 

Mr. Redd was Chairman of The Missouri Bar’s Health Care Durable Power of Attorney Subcommittee, and he played a significant role in the drafting and enactment of the Missouri Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care Act. 

Mr. Redd is an elected member of The American Law Institute, a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (Board of Regents; Editor, ACTEC Journal; Communications Committee; Estate and Gift Tax Committee; and Fiduciary Litigation Committee) and an Adjunct Professor of Law (Estate Planning) at Northwestern University School of Law. He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Trusts & Estates magazine.  Mr. Redd is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law and The Best Lawyers in America.  He is also nationally ranked by Chambers USA in its "Wealth Management" category and is listed as one of the top 100 lawyers in Missouri and Kansas by Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers.  He speaks and writes frequently on topics in the trusts and estates field.

Business Succession or Business Cessation?  Passing the Torch Without Dousing the Flame, 42^nd Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning (Matthew Bender & Company/LexisNexis, June 2008) ¶400

Sharing Exemptions? Not So Fast, Trusts & Estates, April 2008, at 18

Peace in the Sandbox, Trusts & Estates, March 2008, at 42

A Well-Intentioned Mistake: Revenue Procedure 2005-24, Trusts & Estates, January 2006, at 64

Establishment and Administration of Dynasty Trusts, 57^th INSTITUTE ON FEDERAL TAXATION—MAJOR TAX PLANNING FOR 2005 (Matthew Bender & Company/LexisNexis, 2005) ¶2200

42^nd Annual Philip E. Heckerling University of Miami School of Law Institute on Estate Planning, Business Succession Planning, January 15, 2008

2006 Fall Meeting, The American College of Trust & Estate Counsel, Charitable Planning Update—The 2006 Legislation, October 13, 2006

57^th Institute on Federal Taxation, University of Southern California Law School, Establishment and Administration of Dynasty Trusts, January 26, 2005