Lauren Winter Routhier

Experience

Advises multi-generation, high net-worth families and closely held businesses on estate planning, assisting with orderly, tax-advantaged wealth transfer and stewardship of family-owned businesses.

Advises on complex charitable giving.

Supports, advises, and advocates for clients in disputed probate and trust administration matters, as well as IRS examinations and audits. She advises on a wide range of estate-related tax compliance issues.

Advises on determination of heirship, valuation issues, and estate tax reporting. She served as counsel to the Special Administrator of one of the largest and most notable intestate estates in recent history.

Counsels nonprofit organizations, including public charities, private foundations, and community foundations, on creation, tax exemption, governance, gift acceptance policies, and receipt and administration of planned and complex charitable gifts.

Lauren is deeply committed to pro bono work. She volunteers with the Minnesota Council for Veterans Legal Clinic, assisting veterans with estate planning, and provides immigration counsel and guardianship assistance to the local immigrant community through the firm’s Deinard Legal Clinic.

News

Publications

• "Cultivating Farmers’ Rights: Reconciling Food Security, Indigenous Agriculture, and TRIPS," 43 Vand J. Transnat’l L. 223, 2010