Lathrop & Gage LLPMs. Brackney is a partner with Lathrop & Gage in Overland Park, where she serves as co-chair to the firm’s Wealth Strategies group. She prepares analysis and recommendations on sophisticated estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, including development of complex estate plans, preparation of estate planning documents, estate and gift tax returns, and administration of estates, trusts, and family limited partnerships. With nearly 20 years of experience, Ms. Brackney provides lifetime financial planning involving special needs of children and spouses, and financial planning related to divorce and premarital agreements. She assists clients with charitable planning and the administration of private foundations and charitable trusts. Ms. Brackney represents estate and trust clients in federal estate tax audits. She forms and administers charitable entities including private foundations, charitable lead trusts and charitable remainder trusts. Ms. Brackney provides life insurance planning and planning with retirement assets. Ms. Brackney’s prior experience includes working in the Tax & Estate Planning Practice Group at Husch & Eppenberger. She was also an auditor with the Resolution Trust Corporation – Office of Inspector General in Kansas City, Missouri. Ms. Brackney has also passed the CPA exam.

Lathrop & Gage LLPMs. Conrad is a partner with Lathrop & Gage in Overland Park, where she concentrates her practice in the area of estates and trusts law. Her practice includes basic estate planning; sophisticated estate and tax planning for high net-worth individuals; charitable planning, including the formation and administration of charitable entities and trusts; wealth preservation planning; business succession planning; and estate and trust administration. Ms. Conrad is a member of The Missouri Bar, the Kansas Bar Association, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, the Estate Planning Society of Kansas City and Children’s Mercy Hospital Donald H. Chisholm Planned Giving Council. She received her B.S. degree from the University of Kansas and her J.D. degree, with distinction, from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

Lathrop & Gage LLPMr. Growney is a partner with Lathrop & Gage in Overland Park, KS, where he concentrates his practice in all areas of estate planning, including the preparation of basic and complex estate planning documents, and the implementation of sophisticated planning techniques. He also assists high net-worth individuals and closely-held businesses with business succession planning and tax planning, including the formation of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, and structuring of corporate reorganizations and recapitalizations. Mr. Growney’s estate planning practice also includes life insurance planning, charitable planning and estate planning with retirement benefits. He received his B.A. degree from Rockhurst University and his J.D. degree, with distinction, from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Mr. Growney is a member of The Missouri Bar, the Kansas Bar Association, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, the Children’s Mercy Hospital Donald H. Chisholm Planned Giving Council, and the Estate Planning Society of Kansas City. He is a board member of the Kansas City Estate Planning Symposium.