Cameron Kelly

Cameron Kelly enjoys providing personalized planning for individuals and businesses in Minnesota and Wisconsin. His practice includes assisting clients with comprehensive estate planning, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care directives, and living wills. He also has a special interest in the estate, gift, and income taxation of estates and trusts. In addition to estate planning, Cameron works with business owners from formation to business succession.

Cameron serves in multiple capacities on the Probate & Trust Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association. He is a member of the Section Council, the co-chair of the Section’s Legislative Committee and Past Chair of the Section’s Technology Committee. He testified before the Minnesota House of Representatives Judiciary Finance/Civil Law Committee on the Electronic Wills Act in January 2023 as a part of his work with the Probate & Trust Section, which subsequently passed and became law on August 1, 2023. He is a frequent speaker on estate planning, trusts, tax planning, business succession planning, and real estate.

Residing his entire life in Minnesota, Cameron lives with his wife, daughter, and two sons in Stillwater, Minnesota. He is active in the Stillwater and Hudson communities, including providing legal services to cancer patients through Cancer Legal Care and, receiving their Volunteer Attorney of the Year award in 2015 and is a past member of the City of Stillwater Planning Commission.

Cameron has been designated as a Minnesota Super Lawyer since 2019 and as a Rising Star by Minnesota Super Lawyers from 2013 to 2017. He received his LL.M. in Estate Planning from The John Marshall Law School in June of 2018.

Areas of Practice

• Estate Planning
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Trusts
• Wills
• Estate and Gift Taxation
• Business Succession Planning
• Closely Held and Family Businesses
• Residential & Commercial Real Estate

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota, 2003
• Wisconsin, 2018

Education

• Gustavus Adolphus College, B.A., 2000
• William Mitchell College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2003
• The John Marshall Law School, LL.M., Estate Planning, 2018

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Minnesota State Bar Association, Probate & Trust Section Council (2022 to present)
• Minnesota State Bar Association, Legislative Committee, Member (2017 to present); Co-Chair (2022 to present); Electronic Wills sub-committee, Member;
• Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act sub-committee, Chair
• Chair of Minnesota State Bar Association, Technology and Innovation Committee
• St. Croix Economic Development Corporation, Secretary/Treasurer (2020 to 2022), Board (2019 to 2022)
• State Bar of Wisconsin

Presentations and Publications

• “Minnesota Trust Administration Deskbook with eFormbook, Chapter 19, eFormbook, Forms, Optional Paragraphs,” 2022 – Present, Minnesota CLE, co-Author
• “The New Electronic Wills Act and Other Recent Developments in Probate and Trust Law,” 2023 Solo & Small Firm Conference, Minnesota CLE, August 2023
• “2023 Legislative Update,” 2023 Probate and Trust Law Section Conference Minnesota CLE, June 2023
• “The New Electronic Wills Act, and Other Recent Developments in Probate and Trust Law,” MSBA, May 2023
• “Electronic Wills Update,” National Business Institute, June 2022
• “Types of Real Estate Ownership: An Overview,” Real Estate Strategies for Estate Planning and Medical Assistance Practitioners, Minnesota CLE, November 2019
• “Trusts 101,” National Business Institute, December 2019
• “Trusts 101,” National Business Institute, June 2018
• “Basic Tax Planning” and “Trusts 101,” Estate Planning From A to Z national webinar, National Business Institute, February 2018
• “Tax Reduction with Trusts,” “Main Trust Principles” and “Simple Testamentary Trusts/Revocable Living Trusts,” Trusts from A to Z, National Business Institute, June 2017
• “Basic Tax Planning” and “Trusts 101,” Estate Planning from A to Z national webinar, National Business Institute, May 2017
• “Where to Begin, an Overview of Trusts and Revocable Living Trusts,” Trusts 101, National Business Institute, November 2016
• “Where to Begin, an Overview of Trusts and Revocable Living Trusts,” Trusts 101, National Business Institute, November 2016
• “Basic Tax Planning,” Estate Planning from A to Z, National Business Institute webinar, May 2016