November 2025: 

The MLO Minute: “THE ESTATES AND TRUSTS DEPARTMENT OF MCANDREWS LAW WELCOMES ATTORNEY JOAN GRANER” — 

Berwyn, PA, November 2025: McAndrews, Mehalick, Connolly, Hulse and Ryan P.C. (MLO) is thrilled to announce that Attorney Joan Graner has joined our legal team where she will focus her practice in our Estates and Trusts Department. Her practice includes Estate Planning, Special Needs Trusts, Guardianship, Trust Administration Counseling, Medicaid/Social Security Compliance, Estate Administration, Elder Law Planning, and Orphans Court matters.

 

Ms. Graner received her Juris Doctor from Widener University Delaware Law School and is admitted to the Pennsylvania bar. Prior to joining McAndrews Law Offices, Ms. Graner founded and managed a private practice where she focused on estate and trust planning and administration, real estate, and small business representation.

 

Lesley Mehalick, J.D., LL.M., Supervising Partner of MLO’s Estates and Trusts Department, states, “We are thrilled to welcome Joan to our team!  She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge that will be invaluable as we continue to grow and serve our clients at the highest level!”

 

Dennis McAndrews, Esq., Founder and Managing Partner Emeritus, states, “Joan is a highly respected and exceptionally experienced attorney, and we are thrilled to have her as part of our legal family!”

 

Our entire team at McAndrews, Mehalick, Connolly, Hulse and Ryan P.C. welcomes Joan to our legal family and is honored to work with such a dedicated and skilled attorney whose passion is to better the lives of the clients that we serve every day.

 

Read Attorney Joan Graner’s Full Bio Here.

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About McAndrews, Mehalick, Connolly, Hulse and Ryan P.C. (MLO): We are a nationally recognized law firm that provides families of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Area, and New Jersey with exceptional legal representation in Special Education, Estate Planning, Special Needs Trusts, Abuse of Vulnerable Citizens, and Title IX matters and higher education allegations of misconduct. We have grown from a sole practitioner legal entity over 40 years ago to possessing one of the largest Special Education Departments in the United States, and regularly pursue cutting edge litigation on behalf of children with disabilities and in Title IX matters in the federal courts. Our Estate Planning/Administration Department was among the first in the country to develop special needs trusts for families and individuals with disabilities, and are well respected for our work in elder law/Medicaid planning, guardianship, and family-based estate planning.