Samantha Shepherd
Senior Advisor / Attorney
- Estate Planning and Asset Protection
- Elder Care Law, Wills & Trust, Guardianship and Probate
- Special Needs Trusts
- Professional Trustee Administration Services
For over 15 years, Samantha has served the elder care, special needs, and disabled communities as they plan for their healthcare and financial wellbeing. Utilizing her legal expertise and compassionate heart, Samantha has successfully helped individuals and families as aging and crisis have left them vulnerable to ensuring self-care. She listens, advises, and walks these challenging roads with her clients while bringing together local, statewide and federal resources all to respond most effectively to her clients’ needs.
Samantha began her legal career upon gradation from Boston College School of Law. Her professional work experience includes positions with the Essex County District Attorney, Grant Schwartz & Brown, Banknorth Group, Broward County Legal Aid, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, & the Law Offices of Craig Reeves. During the latter portion of this time, Samantha also completed an LLM in Estate Planning from the University of Missouri. In line with her entrepreneurial spirit, in 2011, Samantha started Shepherd Elder Law Group which since its opening has helped over 5,200 Kansas City and Hutchinson, KS families.
Samantha knows deeply of the challenges in navigating the care systems, which exist for seniors, those with special needs, and the suddenly disabled. Seeing a need to further serve individuals with these vulnerabilities, Samantha started Assured Trust Company in June of 2020 which offers independent professional trustee administration services. She has previous board experience as an elected member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and currently serves on the board of Kansas Advocates for Better Care whose mission is dedicated to improving the quality of long-term care for older Kansans at home and in senior care communities.
Samantha can help you plan for your present as well as your future through a financial and healthcare focused approach such that no matter what transitions may arise, you will be prepared.