JEFFREY P. OUELLET, Managing Partner

Jeffrey P. Ouellet serves as the firm’s managing partner. He initially joined the firm in 2015 after practicing for 18 years in Lancaster, Harrisburg and Philadelphia. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Virginia Tech where he received his B.A., summa cum laude, in 1994. He received his J.D. from the Washington & Lee School of Law in 1997, where he was named by the faculty as a Burks Scholar and he was a published member of the Law Review. Jeff served as a President of the Lancaster Bar Association in 2015, and he still serves as the Treasurer for the charitable arm of the LBA, the Lancaster Law Foundation. He also serves as the Chair of the LBA’s Judiciary Committee which is tasked with evaluating candidates for the local bench. Jeff was honored with the 2012 LBA President’s Award for his contributions to the LBA, and the 2022 LBA Service Award for his work to update the process through which judicial candidates are vetted and endorsed. Jeff is an active member of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce where he serves on the Advocacy Committee, and he is a past Chamber Board member. Jeff was the recipient of the Lancaster Chamber’s Small Business Person of the Year in 2022. In 2023, Jeff was named to the Central Penn Business Journal’s Annual Power List for Law. Mark James and Jeff have written about estate planning at length and they have co-authored two books: Wills, Trusts and Your Estate Plan and Estate Planning Success for Women. Jeff practices principally in the areas of estate planning and administration, business law, commercial litigation, employment law and Marcellus shale legal issues.

Areas Practiced: Probate and Estate Administration, Marcellus Shale Law, Business and Commercial Law, Wills, Trusts and Elder Law, Labor and Employment Law, Education Law, & Civil and Commercial Litigation