Katelyn M. Crawford

Katelyn M. Crawford is an associate at Morris James who practices from the firm’s Delaware offices, including Dover. She advises clients on residential and commercial real estate transactions, commercial leases, land use, estate planning, and trust and estate administration. Her real estate clients include buyers, sellers, investors, builders, and developers. She assists with acquisitions, sales, financing, easements, purchase agreements, lot consolidations, subdivisions, and other property matters, and she is a Delaware licensed title agent.

Crawford earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Widener University Delaware Law School in 2018. She also received an M.S. from Bryn Mawr College in 2010 and a B.S. from the University of Delaware in 2008. In law school, she held editorial and transactional-law roles that strengthened the research, drafting, and analytical skills used in her real estate and planning practice.

After law school, Crawford clerked for Justice James T. Vaughn Jr. of the Delaware Supreme Court and worked with the Delaware Department of Justice. Her current practice includes land use approvals, property transactions, leases, estate plans, trust and probate matters, and fiduciary administration. She helps clients coordinate documents and procedural requirements across matters that may involve both property ownership and long-term planning.

Katelyn M. Crawford has received professional recognition in Delaware and brings a detail-oriented approach to transactional and planning matters. Her work often requires coordinating title, financing, land use, contractual, and estate considerations. She helps clients structure real estate transactions, navigate local approval processes, prepare estate-planning documents, and administer trusts and estates with attention to practical objectives and legal requirements.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Morris James LLP
• Member, Delaware State Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Board Secretary, Survivors of Abuse in Recovery
• Member, Sussex County Association of Realtors
• Member, Women’s Counsel of Realtors Sussex County

Licensed State

• Delaware

Education

• Widener University Delaware Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD) Magna Cum Laude
• Bryn Mawr College
  Master of Science (MS)
• University of Delaware
  Bachelor of Science (BS)

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