Donald Petrille Jr.

Donald Petrille, Jr. primarily represents businesses and their shareholders as they wrestle with complex issues in today's ever-changing legal environment. Whether helping an entrepreneur organize a first business venture or counseling an established business on corporate governance issues, contract law, human resource issues or creditors' rights, or helping with a sale or acquisition, Don has spent his career helping small-business owners succeed. Don has a varied client base in diverse industries such as real estate management, alternative energy, market research, telecommunications, construction and software development. Don is also a member of the firm's wills and trusts, estate planning and probate team, where he advises clients on methods of wealth preservation and transfer, and business succession planning. As a member of the firm's real estate team, Don has advised clients on the purchase, sale, financing, leasing and improvement of real estate. He has served as a closing agent on scores of transactions. An active member of the community, Don is a director of Discover Dublin, Inc., a community development organization whose mission is to improve the residential and business communities in Dublin, PA, Bucks County, and the surrounding areas. He is also an associate member of the Ottsville Volunteer Fire Company, where he serves on its new substation committee. Don has volunteered legal services for Living Hope Community Church and emergency management associations and has also served as the solicitor for the Bucks County Department of Health. Currently, Don is serving Bucks County as its Register of Wills and clerk of the Orphan's Court.

• Business & Estate Planning Lawyer

• McNamara, Bolla & Panzer, Associate, 2016 - Present
• International Mediation Institute IMI Qualified Mediator
• Languages
• English

• Trustee – Grand View Health Foundation
• President and Legislative Liaison – Registers of Wills and Clerks of the Orphans’ Court Association of Pennsylvania
• President – Pennsylvania State Association of Elected County Officials
• Appointed by Governor Wolf as a member – Pennsylvania County Records Committee
• Appointed by Bucks County Commissioners – Bucks County Penn State Cooperative Extension Board of Directors
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court Access to Public Records Policy Implementation Committee
• Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Court Judicial Application Design Committee
• Alternate – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Advisory Council on Elder Justice
• Director – Discover Dublin, Inc.
• Pro Bono Counsel to Ottsville Volunteer Fire Company, Living Hope Community Church, Little Lambs Nursery School

• Pennsylvania, 1998
• New Jersey, 1998
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1999
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1999
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 2000
• U.S. Tax Court, 2005

• American Bar Association (Member)
• Pennsylvania Bar Association (Member)
• Philadelphia Bar Association (Member)
• Montgomery County Bar Association (Member)
• Junior Achievement, 1998 - Present (Advisor to High School Students)
• Bucks County Estate Planning Council (Member)
• Bucks County Bar Association (Member)
• American College of Civil Trial Mediators, Member
• Fraternities and Sororities
• Sigma Pi