High net worth individuals, families, corporate fiduciaries, and family offices rely on Michelle for sophisticated estate planning, estate administration, and guidance to resolve complex trust and estate disputes.
For 18 years, Michelle has concentrated her practice on trust and estate matters for high net worth individuals and families. She brings a trifecta of legal, tax, and financial industry expertise to help beneficiaries, executors, personal representatives, trustees, and other interested parties to proactively avoid or successfully resolve disputes. Michelle understands the challenges of emotionally charged disputes involving family members and family wealth. Her priority is to distill complex legal issues into clear, easily digestible communications that help clients reach reasoned decisions and action plans.
A respected, zealous advocate, Michelle has significant experience litigating in state, federal, and appellate courts nationwide when disputes cannot be resolved. Clients really value her ability to identify and address issues up front before they become problematic. Leveraging her background in estate planning, estate and trust administration and her LL.M. in Taxation, Michelle negotiates and crafts creative—often non-traditional—settlement agreements that achieve sustainable compromises in a tax efficient manner.
Structuring plans and documents to stay ahead of the curve is Michelle’s objective in tax, trust, and estate planning and administration. With extensive experience seeing how agreements can unravel when challenged, she excels at devising complex strategies to help high net worth clients and fiduciaries protect generational wealth by minimizing taxes and the potential for future disagreement.
Before joining Holland & Hart, Michelle was a partner at two Am Law 100 firms.