OVERVIEW
Lindsey E. Wilkinson provides clients with a broad range of legal services concerning wills, trusts, estate-related litigation, guardianships, powers of attorney and estate administration. Lindsey has a Certificate in Estate Planning from Temple Beasley School of Law. She is also finishing her Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.) degree focused on estate and business planning.
Throughout her career, Lindsey has:
- Represented clients zealously in court.
- Effectively advises clients of all income levels on how to transfer wealth from one generation to the next.
- Served as a judicial law clerk for judges of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- Effectively represented beneficiaries in estate-related litigation concerning actions against executors of an estate and misuse of a power of attorney.
- Prepared estate plans including testamentary wills, revocable trusts, and family trusts.
- Advised high-net worth individuals on business and estate planning, including irrevocable trusts to reduce federal estate tax liability.
- Litigated a broad range of estate administration, title and power of attorney issues in Orphans’ Court.
- Volunteered to provide superior legal services to the indigent.
In 2021, Lindsey was published by the American Bar Association’s Property and Probate Magazine for an article on the importance of living wills and advance directives. She previously worked as a fiduciary litigation associate at an Am Law 100 law firm. She has experience in high-net worth estate planning. Between 2018 and 2019, Lindsey volunteered at the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project of Philadelphia and Christian Legal Clinics of Philadelphia. In 2018, Lindsey, as a former member of the Villanova Law Review, published an article concerning a federal Ninth Circuit case on the rights of child slaves to sue cocoa plantations in Africa; a case that went to the United States Supreme Court. She has served in judicial clerkships for the Hon. Lillian Harris Ransom of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2016-2017) and the Hon. Gail A. Weilheimer of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County (2019-2021). She also held a summer externship for Chief Judge Juan Sanchez of the federal United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She founded Wilkinson Estate Planning in 2023.