Attorneys

Jeffrey S. Bay
Robert M. Beachy
Cheryl Cook Boushka
Christopher S. Brown
Kent A. Coxe
William A. Denney
Kevin E. Glynn
Paul R. Himmelstein
Michael P. Joyce
David J. Kim
Anne Linton Pond Hendrickson
Shawn L. Stogsdill
Melinda M. Ward
Thomas R. Willy

---

The Biggest Little Law Firm®
in Kansas City

Downtown KC:
2400 Commerce Tower
911 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64105
(816) 421-0644
(877) 637-3476

Overland Park, KS:
College Blvd. and Metcalf Ave.
Overland Park, KS
(913) 693-8027
"Meetings by Appointment Only"

Independence, MO:
Little Blue Parkway and I-70
Independence, MO
(816) 421-0644
"Meetings by Appointment Only"

---

The choice of a lawyer is an important decision and should not be based solely upon advertisements.

Disclaimer

Paul R. Himmelstein

Practice Areas:
Business
Charities and Nonprofit Organizations
Estate Planning, Probate and Trust
Tax

Email: phimmelstein@vomer.com

Paul Himmelstein practices in the areas of business, taxation and estate planning, business succession planning, and post-death estate and trust administration. Paul assists clients with business formation, choice of entity decisions, contract review, and employment issues while further structuring estate plans for clients, including drafting Wills, Revocable Trusts, Family Limited Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies, Irrevocable Insurance Trusts, Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts, Qualified Personal Residence Trusts and various Charitable Trusts. He also assists clients with other sophisticated estate and tax planning strategies as well as the administration of decedents’ trusts and probate estates, including individual, gift, estate, generation-skipping tax and income tax returns as well as fiduciary income tax returns.

Paul graduated from both the Business School and the College of Arts & Sciences from Washington University in 1996 with majors in Finance and Psychology. He then graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1999 while serving on the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Upon graduation from Georgetown, Paul began practicing business and estate planning with a local international law firm where he earned valuable experience handling client concerns ranging from the basic to the most complex. Paul is extremely active in civic organizations including serving as a planning committee member for the Kansas City Estate Planning Symposium; founding member of J-LEAD; vice-president and chair of executive director search committee of Jewish Family Services; founding member of Ella C. Loose Heritage Society Advisory Board for The Gillis Center, Inc.; Gillis Ambassador; founding member and initial chair of Jewish Federation’s Business and Professionals Committee; member of the Estate Planning Society; member of the Children’s Mercy Hospital Donald H. Chisholm Planned Giving Council; and class representative for the Pembroke Hill School. Previously, Paul served as a planning member and on the executive director search committee for the Jewish Federation’s Young Programming Initiative; Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Centurions Leadership Program; Village Shalom Associate Board; and Washington University Alumni Parents Admission Program.

Paul was selected as a Missouri & Kansas Rising Star in 2009 and again in 2011, a Seriously Outstanding achievement as only 2.5% of attorneys are selected each year. View his Super Lawyers Profile online here.

You are here: Home » Attorneys » Paul R. Himmelstein