Plunkett Cooney attorney Andrew J. Lorelli was recently elected as a council member and vice chair of the State Bar of Michigan (SBM) Military & Veterans’ Law Section.

As a council member, Lorelli will be responsible for helping create an exchange and dissemination of ideas among members through meetings, networking events and communications to improve the practice of military law and the quality of legal services provided to the military community. As vice chair, he will be responsible for the development and coordination of educational programs at the annual meeting and assist with coordinating activities for the SBM Military & Veterans' Law Section with other state bar sections that are complementary in scope and learning objectives.

Lorelli, who is a member of the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office, served four years on active duty as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Marine Corps, having been stationed in Okinawa, Japan, and he has worked for several years as a lawyer in private practice.

Lorelli is a member of the Trusts & Estates Practice Group of Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and most accomplished law firms. He 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. He drafts estate plans; prepares fiduciary accounts in trusts, decedent estates and conservatorships; and he handles contested and uncontested probate matters across Michigan.

In addition to the SBM Military & Veterans' Law Section, Lorelli is a member of the organization’s Probate & Estate Planning Section. He is also a member of the Oakland County Bar Association’s Probate & Estate Planning Section and the Veterans Committee. Lorelli received his law degree in 2013 from the University of Iowa College of Law and his undergraduate degree in 2009 from the University of Michigan.

The members of Plunkett Cooney’s Legacy Law Practice Group focus their practice exclusively in the areas of wealth management planning and probate litigation. Their expertise includes drafting trusts and wills, managing estates, administering trusts, preserving assets, addressing tax sensitive distribution of assets to beneficiaries, planning for retirement and planning for effective asset protection. They assist with the guardian selection process, and they utilize sophisticated techniques for tax and succession planning to the benefit of their clients.

Established in 1913, Plunkett Cooney is a leading provider of business law and litigation services to clients in the private and public sectors. The firm employs attorneys in seven Michigan cities, Chicago, Illinois; Columbus, Ohio; and Indianapolis, Indiana. Plunkett Cooney has received achieved the highest rating (AV) awarded by Martindale-Hubbell, a leading peer review service, and Mansfield Rule Certification Plus for midsize law firms, which recognizes leaders in diversity, equity and inclusion within the legal industry.

For more information about Andrew Lorelli’s election as vice chair of the SBM Military & Veterans’ Law Section, contact the firm’s Director of Marketing and Business Development John Cornwell at (248) 901-4008; jcornwell@plunkettcooney.com.

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