Biography
Rochelle has more than 20 years of experience working in tax and wealth planning, both as an attorney and in private wealth management.
She is a trusted adviser to high-net-worth individuals, families and business executives, which she represents in a wide variety of estate and tax planning matters as well as probate and trust administration.
Rochelle works closely with clients' financial advisers and bankers to support their estate, trust, charitable giving and business succession plans. She also counsels high-net-worth individuals, including athletes and entertainers, on pre- and postnuptial planning.
She is a fellow of the prestigious American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a professional association whose members are elected through a rigorous peer review process.
Before Fox Rothschild
Prior to joining Fox Rothschild, Rochelle practiced in the Seattle office of a national law firm. She also practiced estate and wealth planning at multiple law firms and worked at financial planning firms in private wealth management.
While earning her law degree, Rochelle was the notes and comments editor of the New York Law School Journal of Human Rights.
Beyond Fox Rothschild
Rochelle is a fellow with the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC), where she sits on the Digital Assets Committee.
Bar Admissions
- Washington
Education
- New York Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2002)
- Washington State University (B.A., 1993)
Memberships
- Seattle Foundation, Professional Advisory Council Member (2023 - Present)
- American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel Digital Assets Committee Member (2017 - Present)
- ABA Do-It-Yourself Estate Planning Task Force Member (2011 - Present)
- Head of RPPT Legislative Committee Task Force on Electronic (2017 - Present)
- Head of RPPT Legislative Committee Task Force on Fiduciary Access to Digital
Assets (2013 - Present) - Real Property Probate and Trust Section (RPPT) Legislative Committee (2013 -
Present) - Uniform Law Commission, Drafting Committee on Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets
Observer (2013 - Present) - Washington State Bar Association
- New York Bar Association
- King County Bar Association
- Estate Planning Counsel of Seattle
- Washington State University Donor Advisory, Board Member (2017 - 2019)
- American Bar Association ABA RPTE Committee on the Economics of the Practice, Co-Vice Chair
(2012 - 2014)
