Practice Areas

  • Civil Litigation
  • Wills
  • Estates
  • Family Law
  • Municipal Law

Jill M. Laskowitz

Jill is an Associate at BB&T. She focuses her practice in the areas of Civil Litigation, Estate Planning and Administration, Municipal Law and Family Law.  Her litigation experience includes handling contract disputes, personal injury claims, and zoning and land use matters at the trial and appellate levels.  She represents clients in suits involving the Real Estate Tax Sale Law, both defending challenges to tax upset sales and overturning sales.   In family law, she advises clients on custody matters, postnuptial agreements and equitable distribution.

Jill also practices in Orphans’ Court, counseling fiduciaries such as guardians of incapacitated persons, trustees, and executors and administrators of estates.  In her estate practice, Jill advises clients on estate planning and drafts documents such as will, trusts, and general and health care powers of attorney.

Education

  • Temple University, J.D.  (Staff Member, Temple Journal of Science, Technology and Environmental Law)
  • University of Maryland, College Park, B.A., magna cum laude

Clerkships

  • Law Clerk to the Honorable Louis J. Farina, Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas (2008-2009)

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania, 2008
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2009
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2009

Professional Memberships

  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • Lancaster Bar Association

Community Involvement

  • Lancaster Rotary South, Member

Seminars

  • “How Not to Get Sued…(and what to do if you are),” Pennsylvania Society of Electrologists Annual Educational Conference, 2012
  • “Pitfalls for New Practitioners,” Lancaster Bar Association, 2011
  • “Women in the Profession of Law,” Lancaster Bar Association Bench Bar Conference, 2010