Cristina Coletta Blau is Of Counsel with the Trusts and Estates Department at McLane Middleton.  Her practice is focused on the creation and analysis of custom-drafted estate plans for high net-worth individuals and families. Cristina works with Trustees and clients in connection with trust decantings and other aspects of complex trust administration.  Cristina collaborates with members of the Trusts and Estates and Litigation Departments on matters involving fiduciary representation and probate litigation.  Cristina has experience with high-level charitable planning involving significant gifts to non-profit organizations, and planning for clients who are collectors of artwork and antiques.

A dedicated non-profit volunteer, Cristina is a member of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility which provides support to the Harvard Corporation, the governing board of Harvard University. Cristina also currently serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Handel & Haydn Society, where she is the Chair of the Planned Giving Committee, and as a member of the Harvard University Awards Committee.  Cristina previously served as a longtime Board member of the Harvard Alumni Association Board of Directors, as a Trustee of The Concord Free Public Library Corporation, and as a member of the Board of Visitors of The Fenn School in Concord, Massachusetts.

Cristina is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard College where she majored in European History and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  She received her JD from Georgetown University Law Center, and an LLM in Taxation from Boston University.  Cristina is a member of the Boston Bar Association and the Boston Probate and Estate Planning Forum.  Cristina speaks French, Italian, and Spanish with varying degrees of fluency.  She is admitted to the Bar in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the State of New York.