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 Robert A. Stein
Tel: 612/632-3323
Fax: 612/632-4323
Attorney - Minneapolis
robert.stein@gpmlaw.com
Support Staff: Karen Zimmerman, 612/632-3387
Bob serves as Of Counsel at Gray Plant Mooty and is a member of the Trust, Estate & Charitable Planning Practice Group. He is a nationally recognized authority in the areas of estate planning, trusts, and decedents' estates.
Bob received his B.S.L. from the University of Minnesota and his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School. He also received his L.L.D., Honoris Causa, from Uppsala University in Sweden. Bob was recently honored with the 2007 University of Minnesota Alumni Service Award.
Experience
Previously, Bob was the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the American Bar Association (ABA), where he was responsible for the management of the world’s largest voluntary professional association with more than 400,000 members, a 900 person staff and annual budgets of more than $180 million at the ABA’s headquarters in Chicago and its Washington, D.C., office.
Prior to assuming his position at the ABA, Robert was Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School and was the first William S. Pattee Professor of Law. From 1977-1980, he served as the University of Minnesota Vice President for Administration and Planning. He was the University’s representative to the NCAA, the Big Ten, and the WCHA from 1981-1993, and subsequently he has served on the NCAA’s Division I Infractions Appeals Committee. Currently serving as an Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, he teaches estate planning, as well as a unique course on the remarkable work American lawyers have done to bring the rule of law to struggling new democracies throughout the world. In addition, he teaches a course to undergraduate students about the great cases that have shaped and shocked our nation over the past 200 years.
Bob is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, and an academician in International Academy of Estate and Trust Counsel.
Bob holds leadership positions in numerous organizations. Since 1973, he has served as a Commissioner from Minnesota on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, as appointed by the Minnesota Governor, Attorney General and Chief Justice. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Conference. He is a member of the council, member of the executive committee, and advisor to several Restatements of the American Law Institute. He is Vice Chair of the Professional and Public Interest Division of the London-based International Bar Association. He is the immediate Past President of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association and currently serves on its Board of Directors. From 2005-2006 he served on the Minnesota Law Review Advisory Board. In addition, he currently serves on the Board of Directors for several companies, including Great Northern Iron Ore Properties (trustee); Fiduciary Counseling, Inc. (Director, Board of Directors; Executive Committee); and the Educational Credit Management Group (Chair, Board of Directors). He has held myriad other Board appointments, offices and memberships throughout his career.
Bob has received many honors, including the first Lena O. Smith Humanitarian Award for opening employment opportunities for minority lawyers (2002, Minnesota Black Women Lawyers Network); the Presidents Award (1998, Minnesota State Bar Association); and the Distinguished Service Award (1995, WCHA), just to name a few of his accomplishments.
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Books
Minute in remembrance of William B. Lockhart, Minutes In Remembrance, American Law Institute, 1976 - 1997 (American Law Institute, 1998)
Foreword, Net Law: How Lawyers Use The Internet (Songline Studios, Inc., 1997)
How To Study Law And Take Law Exams In A Nutshell (Co-authored with Professor Ann M. Burkhart)(West Publishing Company, 1996)
In Pursuit Of Excellence: A History Of The University Of Minnesota Law School (Mason Publishing Company, 1980)
Estate Planning Under The Tax Reform Act Of 1976 (co authored with Professor A. James Casner) (2d ed.) (West Publishing Company, 1978)
Stein On Probate, 2 vols. (Lexis Nexis, 4th edition, 2004; Michie, 3rd edition, 1996; 2nd edition, 1986; 1st edition, 1976)
Stein On Probate, Annual Supplement 1977-2002
The Probate Explosion Of 1985 (co-authored with Judge Melvin J. Peterson, John M. Zangs, Esq. and Steve A. Brand, Esq.) (National Practice Institute, 1985)
Administration Of A Minnesota Decedent's Estate, 1984 (co-authored with Judge Melvin J. Peterson and John M. Zangs, Esq.) (National Practice Institute, 1984)
Handling A Minnesota Decedent's Estate (co-authored with Judge Melvin J. Peterson and John M. Zangs, Esq.) (National Practice Institute, 1982)
Probate And Inheritance Tax: 1979 (co-authored with Judge Melvin J. Peterson and John M. Zangs, Esq.) (National Practice Institute, 1979)
Probate And Inheritance Tax: 1978 (co authored with Judge Melvin J. Peterson and John M. Zangs, Esq.) (National Practice Institute, 1978)
Estate Administration Under The 1975 Probate Code (co-authored with Judge Melvin J. Peterson) (National Practice Institute, 1976)
Associate Editor, Minnesota Estate Administration (1968)
Articles
Independence of the Judiciary, The State Bar of South Dakota Newsletter 9 (July 2006)
Executive Director’s Report, appeared each month in the American Bar Association Journal, January 1996 to August 2006
President’s Column, appeared each issue (6) of Minnesota Magazine, 2005-2006
What the Legal Profession Expects of Law Schools: A Response,34 IND.L.REV. 15 (2000)
Multidisciplinary Practices: Prohibit or Regulate? 84 MINN.L.REV. 1529 (2000)
The Dean of Deans, 92 Minnesota Law & Politics 24 (Jan. 1998)
Maynard Pirsig Lives On, 23 WILLIAM MITCHELL LAW REV 801, (1997)
Roger Noreen - Remarkable Friend of Legal Education, 89 Law Library Journal 600 (1997)
Probate Reformation: The Impact of the Uniform Laws, 23 The Probate Lawyer 1 (Summer 1997).L.REV. 6 (June, 1997)
In Pursuit of Excellence A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part II: The Vance Years A Time of Ascendancy, 62 MINN. L. REV. 857 (1978)
In Pursuit of Excellence A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part III: The Fraser Years A Time of Excellence and Innovation, 62 MINN. L. REV. 1161 (1978)
In Pursuit of Excellence A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part IV: The Pirsig Years A Time of Transition, 63 MINN. L. REV. 229 (1979)
In Pursuit of Excellence A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part V: The Lockhart Years A Time of Achievement and Challenge, 63 MINN. L. REV. 809 (1979)
In Pursuit of Excellence A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part VI: The Auerbach Years A Time of Building, Controversy and Frustration, 63 MINN. L. REV. 1101 (1979)
Probing the Probate Administration Process, 8 REAL PROPERTY, PROBATE, TRUST LAW SECTION, THE FLORIDA BAR 1, (No. 2 Jan./Feb. 1977)
Multi State Probate Administration Study: Journey into the Known and Unknown, 5 PROBATE & PROPERTY No. 1, p. 11 (Spring, 1976)
Multi State Probate Administration Study: Journey into the Known and Unknown, 2 PROBATE NOTES No. 2, p. 14 (Winter, 1976)
To Make The Probate Process As Simple and Inexpensive As Can Be Done, 32 Bench & Bar of Minnesota 21 (Nov. 1975)
Probate Administration Study: Some Emerging Conclusions, 9 REAL PROPERTY, PROBATE & TRUST JOURNAL 596 (Winter, 1974)
Probate Administration: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction, 3 PROBATE & PROPERTY No. 1 (Summer, 1974)
Profile of Probate Administration in Minnesota, 30 BENCH AND BAR OF MINNESOTA 5 (January, 1974)
New Law School Building A Year of Decision, THE HENNEPIN LAWYER, Vol. 42, No. 2 at 4 (Nov. Dec. 1973)
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