500 West Madison Street Suite 3700, Chicago, IL USA 60661
Kristin G. Bagull focuses her practice on assisting both individuals and corporate fiduciaries with complex trusts, estates, and taxation issues. She works closely with her clients to develop tailored and effective asset protection strategies and business succession plans. Kristin has drafted numerous sophisticated estate plans on behalf of clients which includes lifetime qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) trusts, generation-skipping trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, private foundations, and prenuptial agreements.
Kristin has extensive experience preparing complex trust accountings, estate tax returns, gift tax returns, and income tax returns. She also works with clients in handling and resolving tax controversies at both the state and federal levels. In addition to her estate planning and administration work, Kristin regularly represents clients in trust-related litigation, estate contests, and guardianship litigation matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Kristin was a partner in the Advanced Planning and Family Office Practice Group at a premier private client law firm based in Chicago, Illinois where she concentrated her practice on estate planning and taxation and advised clients on all aspects of asset protection, disability planning, business succession planning, and corporate matters.
Kristin was recognized in 2025 as a “Leading Lawyer” for Tax Law: Individual Trust, Will and Estate Planning Law by Leading Lawyers magazine.
Closely Held Business Planning
Fiduciary Counsel and Litigation
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law LL.M., Taxation (2009)
Loyola University Chicago School of Law J.D., Tax (2003)
Indiana University B.A., Biology (1999)
Illinois (2003)
U.S. Tax Court (2006)
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