Wealth Advisors with Heart: James G. BlaseWealth Advisors with Heart: James G. Blase

Jim Blase has practiced estate planning for over 33 years. But, what differentiates this principal of Blase & Associates LLC, adjunct professor at the St. Louis School of Law and prolific author from other estate-planning practitioners, is his commitment to making sure people have food on their tables.

Once a week, Jim and his wife, Donna (who’s also his office manager), close the law firm and volunteer at the St. Louis Area Foodbank. The Foodbank, which has been in existence since 1975, distributed 35 million pounds of food to communities in Missouri and Illinois last year. But, in addition to manually sorting food donations for the Foodbank’s 57,000 recipients, Jim offers his estate-planning services at discounted rates, or for free, to...