Les is a Brown Smith Wallace Member with extensive experience in tax planning and compliance and serves as a business and tax advisor for individuals, partnerships, corporations, trusts and estates. His areas of specialty include:

• Tax planning and compliance
• Personal financial planning
  
• Retirement planning
  
• Estate planning

Les continually monitors current developments in taxation and personal financial planning so he can develop innovative tax planning strategies for our individual and business clients.

As a member of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants, Les has served on various committees and is a past chairman of both the State Taxation Committee and the Mid-America Tax Conference.

He has also served on the Advisory Board on Taxation for the Missouri Director of Revenue. He has spoken before numerous business and professional groups.

On the national level, Les is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is active in its Federal Tax and Personal Financial Planning divisions. He is a past member of the AICPA’s Small Business Taxation Committee.

Les obtained both his undergraduate and MBA degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. He is certified by the AICPA as a Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) and keeps current with all his specialties by attending a wide variety of continuing professional education courses.