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url: 'https://www.fmjlaw.com/trusts-estates-karen-schlotthauer/'
title: 'FMJ Expands Trusts & Estates Practice with Attorney Karen Schlotthauer'
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  name: Georgie Stocks
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date: '2016-11-15T16:34:47+00:00'
modified: '2021-08-17T20:09:13+00:00'
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  - 'Trusts & Estates Blog'
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# FMJ Expands Trusts & Estates Practice with Attorney Karen Schlotthauer

We are pleased to announce that attorney [Karen Schlotthauer](https://www.fmjlaw.com/professional/karen-a-schlotthauer/) has joined our Eden Prairie office as Senior Counsel in our [Trusts & Estates](https://www.fmjlaw.com/practice-area/trusts-estates/) practice group. Schlotthauer will continue her practice of counseling clients on all aspects of estate planning. Fafinski Mark & Johnson serves local, national and international clients in 14 primary practice areas: Agriculture, Aviation, Bankruptcy & Insolvency, Commercial Lending & Finance, Competition & Trade, General Corporate & Business, HR & Employment, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, and Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

Schlotthauer’s estate planning practice includes wills, trusts, charitable planning, retirement plan distribution planning, probate and trust administration, prenuptial agreements, and estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax strategies. Prior to joining FMJ, Schlotthauer was a shareholder a Lommen Abdo in Minneapolis and a principal of Heilman & Schlotthauer, PLLC in Wayzata. She received her law degree from William Mitchell College of Law.

“We are committed to being the leading Trusts & Estates firm in the southwest metro and adding Karen to our team only furthers that commitment,” said [Robert Fafinski, Jr](https://www.fmjlaw.com/professional/robert-r-fafinski-jr/)., CEO of Fafinski Mark & Johnson. “She is an important hire as her experience and talents as an estate planning attorney will help us to continue to promote growth in this practice area.

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