Attorneys & Counselors

Jamie Barwin is an attorney and a CPA devoted to helping clients achieve their goals.  Jamie is part of Strobl Sharp’s Trust and Estate Practice Group and she serves a wide range of clients from middle-class individuals through ultra-high net worth families and is able to provide all of her clients with a unique perspective given her diverse background in accounting, taxation and law.  Jamie counsels clients on life-time and post-mortem estate planning, including trust planning and charitable planning, as well represents and advises fiduciary and beneficiary clients on estate and trust administration, including probate.

Jamie has spent 7 years in Big 4 public accounting, most recently managing private clients in the Deloitte Tax private wealth group as a tax attorney in the era of Tax Reform and also auditing private equity firms and hedge funds, and performing buy-side due diligence as a transaction advisory senior associate.  Jamie began her legal career at family law firm Grund & Leavitt, P.C., in Chicago, where she worked for 3 years, and then became an estate planning attorney at Sugar Felsenthal Grais and Hammer.  She also spent a number of years in the position of Controller at the family office of a prestigious Chicago family.