Michelle W. Albrecht

Michelle W. Albrecht focuses her practice on estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning for high-net-worth individuals and families. She helps clients design estate plans that move wealth to future generations while reducing tax exposure and protecting family assets through thoughtful long-term strategies and careful planning decisions overall.

Michelle earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Columbia University, graduating magna cum laude. She later received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. This academic training built a strong foundation in legal analysis, tax planning principles, and structured problem-solving that supports her estate planning practice today consistently.

Michelle regularly works with individuals and families to create customized estate strategies that help preserve wealth across generations. Her work often includes drafting wills and revocable trusts, structuring lifetime gifts, and organizing entities such as limited liability companies to support long-term financial and family planning goals for clients and heirs.

Michelle also guides clients through advanced wealth transfer methods, including dynasty trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, and other tax-aware planning structures. By carefully coordinating these tools, she helps families manage complex tax rules while maintaining control over assets and strengthening long-term financial stability for future generations and beneficiaries alike worldwide.

Michelle frequently assists with estate and trust administration, representing executors, trustees, and beneficiaries during the settlement process. She helps interpret trust terms, address tax responsibilities, and manage distributions so that estates are administered smoothly and according to each client’s documented wishes and long-term planning intentions for families and heirs involved throughout.

Michelle prepares prenuptial and postnuptial agreements and serves as an estate planning expert in matrimonial matters, including providing expert witness testimony in divorce cases. She also advises on charitable planning and helps establish private foundations while earning recognition with a Bronze “Woman of the Year – Rising Star” award in 2024.

Michelle W. Albrecht continues to support families seeking thoughtful estate planning and tax guidance. She is admitted to practice in New York and is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, reflecting her active professional involvement.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Licensed State

• New York

Education

• Harvard Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Columbia University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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