Kassy Buss

Kassy Buss is a partner at BJM Law PLLC in Missoula, Montana. Buss advises businesses and individuals on corporate, real estate, affordable housing, and estate-planning matters. The practice includes business formation, commercial transactions, real estate and land use, business sales, estate planning, and low-income housing tax credit projects. Buss works with business owners, developers, organizations, and individuals with transactional needs. The work requires careful drafting, legal analysis, and practical planning so clients can understand obligations, risks, and available options.

Buss earned a B.A. from the University of Montana with high honors in 2012 and a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law in 2015. Buss entered the legal field in 2008 as a legal assistant and paralegal, giving her practical experience before completing law school. This training supports the research, analysis, writing, and problem solving required in matters involving detailed records and important client decisions.

Buss’s experience includes business representation, commercial and real estate transactions, affordable housing projects, and work involving property-tax legislation and development structures. In addition, Buss became a partner in 2024 after building a transactional practice that also includes estate planning and succession issues. The practice emphasizes clear documents, careful risk analysis, coordinated planning, and practical solutions aligned with the client’s legal and financial objectives.

Kassy Buss received the Great Falls Development Alliance Ally Award in 2023 for work connected to economic and community development. Buss combines transactional drafting, project planning, and practical risk analysis to help clients structure and complete important business and property matters. The focus remains on clear advice, careful planning, and legal structures that help clients manage risk, obligations, assets, and future decisions. This experience supports careful judgment and clear communication throughout each stage of a legal matter.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, BJM Law PLLC
• Member, State Bar of Montana
• Board Member and Law School Liaison, Colorado Women’s Bar Association
• Secretary, Colorado Law chapter of the ACLU
• Member, Western Montana Bar Association
• Volunteer Facilitator, Longmont Community Justice Partnership
• Member, Western Montana Estate Planning Council
• Member, Girl Scouts of America
• Member, YWCA
• Member, Bonner School

Licensed State

• Montana

Education

• The University of Colorado School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• The University of Montana
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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