Plunkett Cooney Expands Trusts & Estates Group with Two New Attorneys
Attorneys Karen Collingsworth-Crusse and Andrew J. Lorelli recently joined the Plunkett Cooney law firm in Bloomfield Hills as members of its Trusts & Estates Practice Group.
A senior attorney in the firmâ€TMs Bloomfield Hills office, Collingsworth-Crusse brings wealth management, family office, and business succession planning experience to the firm from her combined 25 years of law practice and working with families as an advisor and certified exit planning advisor for several of Michiganâ€TMs leading banks.
She creates strategies for closely held business owners to protect, build value, and transition from their businesses. Collingsworth-Crusse also works with the family during this process, using governance tools and resources, to support effective communication and family harmony.
In addition, Collingsworth-Crusse provides advice-based solutions focused on trust administration, estate planning, wealth strategy and business succession, and she leads an internal team of cross functional attorneys and support staff professionals, to provide best-in-class service, solutions and thought leadership.
Collingsworth-Crusse earned her undergraduate degree in 1995 from Oakland University and her law degree in 1998 from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.
Lorelli joins the firm as an associate attorney in the Bloomfield Hills office and has a decade of experience working in the areas of trust and estate planning, and trust and probate administration, including decedent estates, guardianships, conservatorships, and special needs trusts.
A member of the Oakland County Bar Association and State Bar of Michigan Probate & Estate Planning sections, Lorelli served four years on active duty as a judge advocate in the U.S. Marine Corps, having been stationed in Okinawa, Japan, and several years as a lawyer in private practice. Lorelli drafts estate plans for a wide variety of clients; prepares fiduciary accounts in trusts, decedent estates and conservatorships; and handles contested and uncontested probate matters in dozens of counties all over the state of Michigan.
Lorelli earned his undergraduate degree in 2009 from the University of Michigan and his law degree in 2013 from the University of Iowa College of Law.
