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Provided by Jaime R. Mendez
Trust & Estates
Tax-Exempt Organizations
Jaime Mendez advises individuals and fiduciaries on complex estate and gift tax matters, with a focus on planning, administration, and audit representation.
Jaime works with individuals who require advanced estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning. His practice includes structuring sales to irrevocable grantor trusts, family limited partnerships, grantor retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, and other wealth transfer techniques. He also advises individual and corporate fiduciaries on estate and trust administration and devotes a significant portion of his practice to representing clients in estate and gift tax audits.
Jaime is active in charitable and civic organizations and participates in several professional associations. His peers have selected him for inclusion in Best Lawyers® from 2008 to 2026, and Best Lawyers® named him “St. Louis Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year” for both 2022 and 2024. He holds an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Jaime is a former member of the Firm’s Management Committee.
American Bar Association
Estate Planning Council of St. Louis
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
University of Missouri School of Law
J.D.
1996
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
MBA
1992
University of Missouri
B.S.
1985
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I think the world of Jaime Mendez. He is thoughtful and intentional.
I think the world of Jaime Mendez. He is thoughtful and intentional.