The Architected Settlement Law Group
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A deeper case-led resource showing how Michele Fuller used legal architecture to strengthen what the recovery could protect after the agreement was reached.
Michele P. Fuller
Founder & Attorney
The Settlement Architect
Special Assistant Attorney General for the Flint Water settlement distribution across three court jurisdictions.
Hawthorn counsel for 50+ minor claimants involving a §1396p(d)(4)(C) pooled special needs trust.
Fellow of the Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals.
Conditional QSF practitioner.
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A settlement can look complete once the number is agreed to. But as this case shows, a finished number is not the same thing as a finished strategy. The real question is whether the legal structure beneath the recovery is strong enough to govern what happens next.
This case study shows how Michele Fuller stepped in as Settlement Planning Counsel, identified the structural gap, and redesigned the legal architecture before the path was locked — changing not the fact of the recovery, but the quality of what that recovery could protect and support after the agreement was reached.
Inside this case study
- Why a settlement can be fully negotiated and still remain strategically incomplete
- What made the original path too narrow for the work the recovery still needed to do
- How Michele reframed the structure as part of the settlement strategy itself
- What trial attorneys should watch for before a recovery is treated as complete by default
- When Strategic Structures becomes decisive in protecting administration, usability, and long-term support
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