Susan B. Schoen

Susan B. Schoen is the founding partner of Gateway Legacy Planning Attorneys, LLC and focuses her practice on estate planning. She helps individuals and families establish plans that reflect their goals, priorities, and circumstances. Her work includes developing estate planning strategies and preparing the documents needed to carry them out, with an emphasis on giving clients a clear framework for managing property and future family decisions.

Schoen graduated cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law in 1996. Before focusing on estate planning, she worked as a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit nurse and later practiced medical malpractice defense litigation. Her legal education and earlier professional experience contribute to a planning approach that values careful preparation, detailed review, and clear communication when clients are making important decisions about family and property.

Schoen moved from litigation into estate planning after gaining experience defending medical malpractice matters. Her current work centers on creating estate plans tailored to individual needs rather than using a single standardized approach. She helps clients consider how wills, trusts, and related planning choices can work together, while drawing on her litigation background to identify issues that can benefit from precise drafting and advance planning.

Susan B. Schoen brings more than two decades of professional and legal experience to estate planning work in the St. Louis area. Her background combines health care experience, litigation, and focused planning for individuals and families. She helps clients organize important decisions, document their intentions, and create estate plans designed around their own goals, with attention to practical implementation and long-term clarity.

Law Office Affiliations

• Founding Partner, Gateway Legacy Planning Attorneys, LLC
• Member, The Missouri Bar

Licensed State

• Missouri

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