GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Foster Swift Collins & Smith has named the following attorneys as practice leaders: Alaina M. Nelson for the Trusts & Estates practice group and Michael C. Zahrt as Co-Leader of the Business & Tax practice group, respectively.

Practicing in the firm’s Lansing office, Alaina first joined Foster Swift in 2018, participating in the firm’s summer associate program and returned in 2019 after graduating from Michigan State University’s College of Law. 

She was elected as a firm shareholder in January 2026. In her practice, she works with clients on general estate planning matters, estate and gift tax planning, estate and trust administration, and international estate planning.

Mike joins fellow attorney Taylor Gast as co-leader of the firm’s business & tax group. As a business and estate planning attorney in Grand Rapids, his areas of practice focus on business formations and transactions, business and farm succession planning, estate planning and administration and matters in agri-business.

Mike is the former leader of the firm’s Agribusiness sub-practice group and was also in the firm’s summer associate program prior to graduating summa cum laude from Michigan State University’s College of Law.

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