Partner
Scott Blakesley is a partner and leader of the firm’s Kansas City estate planning group. Scott’s practice involves all areas of estate planning and trust and estate administration, including family-owned businesses, planning for multiple generations, charitable gift planning, tax-exempt organizations, estate and gift tax planning, and general advice and counseling for family members involved in business and estate planning.
Memberships
- Professional Affiliations
- American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Fellow
- Estate Planning Society of Kansas City
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Probate & Trust Law Committee
- Lawyers Association of Kansas City
- Mid-America Planned Giving Council, President, 1995; Treasurer, 1999
- Partnership for Philanthropic Planning (formerly NCPG), Board Member, 1997-2001; President, 2001; Treasurer, 1999
Civic and Charitable Activities
- Children’s Mercy Hospital, Planned Gift Council; Chair 2007
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Board member 2012 – present
- St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation, Planned Gift Committee
- Girl Scouts of NE Kansas and NW Missouri, Board (past board member and Resource Development Committee Chair)
- Jewish Community Foundation, Legal Counsel; Professional Advisors Committee
- United Methodist Church of the Resurrection Foundation (advisor and former board member)
- United Way of Greater Kansas City (former chair of Planned Giving Committee)
- LEAVE A LEGACY Kansas City, Co-Chair, 2002-2005
- Kansas City Community Foundation, Professional Advisors Committee
Distinctions
- Best Lawyers of America, Trusts and Estates, 1995-2023; Litigation – Trusts and Estates, 2022-2023
- Best Lawyers of America, Lawyer of the Year, Litigation – Trusts and Estates, 2017, 2019
- Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers, 2005-2022
Contact Scott Blakesley at 816.292.8268 or sblakesley@spencerfane.com.