Overview
Margaret (Maggie) Kamm focuses her practice on helping high-net-worth individuals and families navigate all aspects of wealth-transfer planning, including estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, trust and estate administration, business succession, charitable planning and governance, and contested trust and tax matters.
Maggie has extensive experience advising executors and trustees on their fiduciary duties and assisting in the administration of complex estates, including probate proceedings and the preparation of federal and state estate tax returns. She takes a holistic approach to her practice, which centers around building relationships with clients to appreciate their needs and goals before implementing them through thoughtful and creative planning.
While in law school, Maggie served as a notes and comments editor for the Chicago-Kent Law Review and was vice president of the Moot Court Honor Society. In 2017, she was a judicial extern for the Honorable Justice Bertina Lampkin of the Illinois Appellate Court. Additionally, Maggie previously served as a Public Interest Law Initiative intern at Lamba Legal.
Results
- Obtained retroactive tax-exempt status for unregistered charitable trusts following merger of corporate trustees *
* Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.
Credentials
Education
Chicago Kent College of Law, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2019
Carthage College, BA, magna cum laude, 2013
Admissions
Illinois
Florida
