Notable Representations

• Counseled a business owner with more than 50 separate business entities through the divorce process. Successfully litigated complex multi-entity valuation issues and support issues. Finally, negotiated an overall resolution to the divorce prior to trial.
• Advised a wife and mother through a contentious divorce involving multi-generational family trusts. Counseled wife through complex accounting issues over the course of a lengthy marriage. Assisted wife in bringing the divorce to an overall out of court resolution.
• Counseled a father with a significant interest in a family-owned business. Worked with client and client’s spouse’s counsel to resolve issues related to the value of the family-owned business, the division of the marital property, an equally shared custody arrangement and ongoing support obligations without resorting to any court intervention.
• Worked with a mother whose husband owned a substantial business. Through many court hearings in the litigation process, successfully resolved for this mother all of the issues related to the value of the husband’s business, a custody schedule, appropriate support payments and the division of the marital property.
• Counseled children who own significant portions of multigeneration family-owned business through the prenuptial process. Helped young man navigate an already stressful pre-wedding situation and address the consequences of his ownership in a multi-million dollar family business without injecting more stress with his fiance.
• Represented a professional service firm through the arbitration process when a former owner left taking many clients with him. Through the arbitration, successfully secured for the majority owner enforcement of certain financial and other obligations of the departing shareholder.
• After a multi-day non-jury trial, successfully secured a substantial judgment for a custom builder that included not only sums that were due under the contract, but lost profits.
• Successfully represented in a non-jury trial a non-profit organization to resolve certain corporate governance issues that were raised by a dissident group of members.

Memberships

• Chester County Bar Association, President 2011
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Delaware State Bar Association
• Doris Jonas Freed Family Law Inn of Court

Previous Memberships

• American Inns of Court (John E. Stively Inn)
• Legal Aid of Chester County, Board Member
• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee (2001-2008)
• Pennsylvania Bar Association, Task Force on Balance and Quality of Life (1999 – 2001)

Community Involvement

• West Chester University – Presidential Scholarship Steering Committee 1999-2012, Chairman 2001 – 2002
• West Chester Business Improvement District Board Member 2001 – 2019, Chairman 2004 – 2005
• West Chester Downtown Foundation Board Member 2003- Present, Chairman 2009 – 2010
• Basketball Coach – St. Agnes CYO and West Chester Lightening Leagues
• West Chester Public Library, Board Member 2011-Present

Speaking Engagements

Lance is a frequent lecturer on litigation-related topics. He has presented to various state and local organizations including the Chester County Bar Association, the Institute of Management Accountants, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Videos

• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

• Villanova University School of Law, Juris Doctor
  Order of the Coif
• Boston College, Economics and Political Science

AWARDS

• Citizen of the Year, The Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce (2009)
• The Best Lawyers in America^© 2019-2021
• Main Line Today, Top Lawyer, 2009 – 2019
• Martindale-Hubbel, AV Preeminent Rating
• Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, 2010 – 2021