Attorney Profile: Michael Grant
Michael Grant
Michael Grant graduated from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, earning a degree in Economics. While in college, he participated in intercollegiate varsity basketball and baseball. He received his Juris Doctor degree from St. Louis University after attending night law school. By day he taught mathematics and history and coached athletics in a high school in St. Louis, Missouri. He is presently a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and its section on Trusts and Estates. He is admitted to practice before all the courts in the State of Illinois and the U.S. Federal Court. He has been in private practice since 1973 concentrating in personal estate and business planning.
Mr. Grant is well known as an estate and asset protection planner. He is recognized for his ability to reduce complex legal principles into understandable concepts. After graduation from law school, Mr. Grant served as a trust counsel for the First National Bank where he gained invaluable experience in the drafting and implementation of estate planning documents. Since that time he has drafted and implemented thousands of estate planning documents for clients, including trusts, wills, family partnerships, charitable trusts and other complementary documents. He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc., and the American Association of Trust, Estate and Elder Law Attorneys, a national professional organization organized to enhance and further the quality of trust, estate and elder law legal services. He has served on the boards of several charitable and community service. Mr. Grant is a trained Hospice Volunteer.
Areas Of Practice:
- Estate and Business Planning
- Estate and Trust Administration
- Taxation Fiduciary
Bar Admissions:
- Illinois, 1971
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Central District of Illinois
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois Trial Bar
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois Trial Bar
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Federal Courts
- Saint Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri Juris Doctor
- St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Major: Economics
Professional Associations and Memberships:
- National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. Member
- American Association of Trust, Estate and Elder Law Attorneys Member
- American Association of Trust, Estate and Elder Law Attorneys Member
- Illinois State Bar Association, Trusts and Estate Section Member