Lawrence Brody,Esq.

Lawrence Brody, partner, Bryan Cave LLP; B.S., University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) (1964); J.D., Washington University School of Law (1967); LL.M. in Taxation, New York University School of Law (1968); Partner, Bryan Cave LLP, an international law firm, resident in the St. Louis office, and member of its Private Client Service Group and its Technology, Entrepreneurial & Commercial Practice Client Service Group; adjunct professor, Washington University School of Law, teaching Estate Planning and Drafting; visiting adjunct professor, the University of Miami Law School, teaching a course on Life Insurance; author or co-author, numerous articles and books on the use of life insurance in estate and employee benefit planning, including two BNA Tax Management Portfolios, two books for the National Underwriter Company, and a number of volumes in the ABA Insurance Counselor Series; fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and American College of Tax Counsel; frequent participant, ALI-ABA programs and Society of Financial Professionals programs and teleconferences; speaker, all major life insurance industry programs (including the MDRT, the Top of the Table, AALU and the International Forum), many local estate planning council meetings, a number of state bar association conferences, and many national estate planning programs; member, Advisory Committee for the Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning of the University of Miami School of Law; member, Editorial Boards of BNA Tax Management's Estates, Gifts, and Trusts Journal, and the Society of Financial Service Professionals CLU Journal; designated, Accredited Estate Planner by the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils, and one of 10 individuals awarded its Distinguished Accredited Estate Planner designation in the initial class, in 2004.