Find Lawyers in West Chester, Pennsylvania

Walter P. Eells is a partner in the firm’s West Chester office. With over 30 years of litigation experience, he concentrates his practice in the Family and Orphans’ Courts, offering focused and timely advice to clients involving adoptions, guardianships, divorce, custody, support, pre- and postnuptial agreements, and all related litigation and mediation. He previously served as the Chairperson appointed by the Chester County Court of Common Pleas to review and revise the Local Fam...

Named “Lawyer of the Year 2022” by Best Lawyers in America ® and chair of Gawthrop Greenwood’s management committee, Stacey L. Fuller practices in the areas of Municipal Law, Land Use Law, Education Law, and Special Education Law. Stacey represents municipalities, townships, boroughs, planning commissions, zoning hearing boards and other governmental entities, as well as individual developers and residents, on issues such as zoning and other land development matters. She...

A long-time practitioner in the trusts and estates field, Kevin Holleran has spoken regularly before the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and other professional organizations on estate planning and other legal issues. He has also taught Estate Planning classes for the University of Delaware’s School of Business for seven years, and taught the Estate Administration & Planning class for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute for eleven years. Kevin is an elected trustee of the Chester County Hospit...

Named “Female Business Leader of the Year” by the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry, Sandra L. Knapp is chair of the Business Department at Gawthrop Greenwood and practices in the fields of Business Law, Commercial Transactions, Admiralty/Maritime Law, Real Estate Law, and Banking and Finance. She represents clients in a broad range of transactional and general corporate matters, including asset-based lending transactions, mergers and acquisitions, marine finance and...

John F. McKenna heads the MacElree Harvey's Trust and Estate Litigation Group. He represents clients in all estate and trust matters, complex guardianships, will contests, trust termination and modifications, corporate disputes, contract interpretation, real estate disputes, consumer protection, and broker liability litigation. John has also expanded his practice to include private mediation. He has been appointed a Special Master by the Court to hear discovery issues and partition matters. J...

Patrick M. McKenna has extensive experience representing numerous municipalities, zoning hearing boards, municipal authorities, and planning commissions in Chester and Delaware Counties. In addition, he advises and guides private land owners and developers through complex commercial land development matters, from acquisition and planning, through the permitting and land development phases. He has represented clients on matters including townhome developments, senior care homes, national fast-...

Theodore J. Murphy - Ted has been involved with Immigration matters since 1993. He is currently the founder and managing attorney of the Murphy Law Firm in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Ted is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the Chester County, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. He was an adjunct professor at The Beasley School of Law, Temple University. He is a frequent lecturer on immigration matters. Ted has been on the faculty at th...

Brian L. Nagle heads MacElree Harvey’s Land Use and Zoning group. He represents developers, entrepreneurs, institutions, and individuals in land use and zoning matters, as well as tax assessment appeals and related litigation. Previously, he worked in the solicitor role for a number of municipalities. As a result, he has extensive knowledge and experience in managing matters at the municipal and state government levels.

Lance J. Nelson is the chair of MacElree Harvey's family law practice. With over 25 years of experience, Lance focuses his practice on family law matters such as divorce, marital agreements, adoption, custody, and support. In addition, Lance counsels his business clients on a variety of legal issues including contract disputes, construction issues, corporate control issues and other aspects of day-to-day business disputes. Lance has an AV Preeminent Rating in Martindale Hubbell Peer Review Ra...

Stephen J. Olsen is a member of Gawthrop Greenwood’s Trusts & Estates Department, practicing in the areas of Estate, Trust Administration, Estate Planning Taxation, and Business Transactions. He is also one of the few Pennsylvania attorneys in private practice with a wide breadth of experience supporting the legal needs of medical marijuana operators. Recently Stephen’s Cannabis Law practice has expanded to provide support to medical marijuana permittees in operation after Pen...

Louis N. Teti represents individuals and businesses in a wide range of estate, business succession, and tax planning matters. He speaks frequently on estate planning, tax planning, estate administration, and philanthropic planning. Mr. Teti has been named to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list every year since 2005 and has been consistently named one of the Main Line Today’s Top Lawyers. He is a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). Mr. Teti is a past Presi...

Jeremy Grivensky thrives on digging into the details. Time and time again, this gives clients the advantage with powers of analysis and case law findings that the opponent has overlooked. An associate attorney who primarily practices in Gawthrop Greenwood’s Litigation Department, Jeremy joined the firm in 2022 after graduating magna cum laude from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he was a Beasley Scholar and an award-winning editor of the Temple Law Review . His extensive ...

Robert C. Jefferson, IV is a senior associate attorney at Gawthrop Greenwood, PC who focuses his practice on municipal government law, as well as land use, land development and zoning. A former Assistant District Attorney, Jefferson spent six years at the Chester County D.A.’s Office prosecuting 19 jury trials and more than 20 bench trials for criminal cases ranging from felonies to misdemeanors. His career in public service, along with experience navigating the adversarial court system...

Lauren A. Nehra is a dedicated litigation attorney who takes great pride in providing superior client service as she practices in matters including contract disputes, landlord/tenant cases, personal injury and Orphans’ Court matters (guardianships, will contests). A recent client describes Lauren as a lawyer who “exceeded our expectations and has gone out of her way to help us.” Licensed to practice in both Pennsylvania and Delaware, Lauren prioritizes listening to her clien...

Gordon W. Prince joined Gawthrop Greenwood as an associate attorney shortly after graduating number one in his class at Widener University Delaware Law School in 2019. He focuses his practice in the firm’s Business Law Department and supports a broad range of transactional and general business entity matters including the drafting and negotiation of contracts and merger agreements, business compliance with state and federal law, real estate and corporate governance. Gordon recently serv...