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Courtney Shands, Jr. specializes in business entity
formation, commercial transactions, real estate, estate planning and
probate. He has represented Fortune 500 and local corporations, and other
entities in a variety of business and commercial matters, including
financing, mergers and acquisitions, benefit plans and complicated
contracts. Mr. Shands has represented lenders,
borrowers, buyers, sellers, developers, planners, major landowners, and
school districts, in a variety of real estate transactions, including
like-kind exchanges and rezoning. He has represented several major
mining corporations (coal, lead, iron, fluorspar) in matters peculiar to
that industry. Mr. Shands has served as
a director of numerous closely held corporations, as
president of a timber company with operating oil and gas wells, as a
member of the executive committee of a local manufacturing company and on the Board of a major charity.
Courtney Shands, Jr. was president of the Young
Lawyer's Section of the local Bar Association. He has served as the
senior warden and a vestryman of two Episcopal Churches, as an officer
and director of several local charitable organizations, chiefly
educational, as president of a local summer school for gifted children,
and as trustee of three charitable trusts. Mr. Shands was on the
national board of directors of the ACLU, and the president of its local
chapter for several years and has served as the President of the Law
Library Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and as the Missouri
Secretary for the Selden Society. He does pro bono real estate and
probate work for legal aid referrals. Mr. Shands recently reviewed the
real estate section of the Missouri Bar's Farm Law handbook, and
incorporated the Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corporation, which
operates the student transfer program in the St. Louis Metropolitan
area.
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Harvard Law School, LL.B.
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Washington University, A.B.
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