Kathy Spencer Zelazny

Kathy Spencer Zelazny is Of Counsel to Geittmann Larson Swift LLP and maintains an estate and tax planning practice that includes work connected to Jackson, Wyoming. Her practice focuses on estate and gift tax planning, probate, taxation, real estate, and business transactions. She advises clients on wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, advance health care directives, succession strategies, real estate contracts, and entity agreements. Her work often involves high net worth families, closely held businesses, and long-term ownership planning.

Zelazny earned a B.A. from Duke University in 1989 and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1993. She then attended New York University and received an LL.M. in Taxation in 1994. Before law school, she worked as a litigation paralegal in Washington, DC. Her legal and tax education provides a strong foundation for wealth transfer, estate and gift tax planning, probate, business succession, and transactional work involving family assets, real estate, and privately held companies.

Zelazny began practicing in Jackson in 1994 with Mullikin, Larson & Swift LLC. She later moved to Northern California, where she practiced in the Napa Valley through law firms, a partnership, and her own office. She renewed her relationship with the Jackson firm in 2015 as Of Counsel. Her client work has included succession planning for high net worth individuals, family winery and vineyard owners, and longtime Jackson families, along with preparation and negotiation of real estate, limited liability company, corporate, and partnership agreements.

Kathy Spencer Zelazny combines estate planning, tax, probate, real estate, and business transaction experience developed across Wyoming and California. Her background is especially relevant to clients whose family wealth, business ownership, and real property require coordinated legal planning. She can address core estate documents while also working with entity agreements, succession structures, and transactional issues. Her continuing Of Counsel relationship with her law practice connects her long-standing Jackson experience with a broader tax and private-client practice serving families and business owners.

Law Office Affiliations

• Of Counsel, Geittmann Larson Swift LLP
• Member, Wyoming State Bar

Licensed State

• Wyoming

Education

• New York University
  Master of Laws (LLM)
• Duke University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Duke University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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