Glover, Patricia S.

Attorney Kari Gocha is a graduate of Michigan State University, Detroit College of Law, where she earned her juris doctorate degree cum laude.  Kari has been licensed to practice law in Michigan since 1997.  She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the Probate and Estate Planning Section for the State Bar of Michigan, the Financial and Estate Planning Counsel of Metropolitan Detroit, WealthCounsel, Inforum, and the Rochester Regional Chamber of Commerce.

At Mall Malisow & Cooney, Kari focuses her practice in the following areas:

Estate Planning
Asset Protection
Special Needs Planning
Trust Administration
Probate & Estate Administration (Conservatorships, Guardianships & Decedent's Estates)
Business Formation and Succession Planning

Knowing that the best legal plans fit specific family and business needs, Kari makes it her mission to thoroughly understand client circumstances as a basis for designing legal strategies. In a legal system which is complex and often adversarial, Kari guides clients towards healthy results.

Just as importantly, Kari has abundant interpersonal skills in the areas of compassion and listening.  On the job, she combines all of these skills in order to relate to clients and respond to their needs with a legal mind and a sensitive heart.  She’s warm by nature and believes firmly in the value of educating her clients:  helping them fully understand both the legal steps which make sense and the reasons for those steps. 

Ethical and results-oriented, she sees herself foremost as a counselor assisting clients through a maze of important life decisions.  In such a counseling role, Kari has had extensive experience protecting client assets.  While she’s skilled at seeing ‘the big picture’ and recognizing specific legal solutions, Kari knows that the best solutions are the ones that are embraced by educated clients.

She is a frequent guest speaker and educator to financial institutions and CPAs.

After hours, she enjoys family time with husband Alan, son Marcus, and step-son, AJ, outdoor activities of all kinds, and the company of their family pet, a retriever named Goldie.