Jeffrey P. Ouellet - Appel Yost LLP

JEFFREY P. OUELLET, Managing Partner

Jeffrey P. Ouellet serves as the firm’s managing partner. Jeff has been practicing law since 1997, and he joined Appel Yost LLP in 2015. 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 is a past President and current Board Member of the Lancaster Law Foundation, the charitable arm of the LBA. He also has served as the Chair of the LBA’s Judiciary Committee since 2016, 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, the 2022 LBA Service Award for his work to update the process through which judicial candidates are vetted and endorsed, and the 2024 LBA Achievement Award for his career long contributions to the mission of the LBA. Jeff is a past board member, and an active member of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce where he serves on the Advocacy Committee. Jeff was the recipient of the Lancaster Chamber’s Small Business Person of the Year in 2022. In 2023, 2024, and 2025, Jeff was named to the Central Penn Business Journal’s Annual Power List for Law. In 2025, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health named Jeff to their Board of Trustees, and Jeff joined the Benchmark Program Board. 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, Estate Planning, Business and Commercial Law, & Labor and Employment Law