Courtney E. Dolaway

Courtney E. Dolaway is a member of Flaster Greenberg’s Trusts & Estates, Taxation, and Business & Corporate Departments, and chair of the Women's Initiative Committee. With a deep understanding of the legal and emotional complexities that come with planning for the future, Courtney is committed to guiding you and your family through the estate planning process with clarity, compassion, and trusted legal insight to ensure your wishes are clear, followed by your loved ones, and estate taxes and other burdens are minimized. 

Her practice focuses on standard and complex estate planning, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives, along with estate administration, business succession, and general corporate matters. She is particularly skilled at navigating larger estates as well as estate matters that have potential litigation. Whether you are looking to protect your legacy or settle an estate, Courtney offers a responsive and reassuring presence during times that can often be uncertain or overwhelming. She also assists and advises family members and other key individuals in the creation and management of nonprofit organizations to help them further their charitable missions.

A magna cum laude graduate of Washington and Lee University with a double major in math and politics, Courtney is able to integrate her math acumen and master’s in taxation to provide unique insights and strategies to estate planning. Her extensive experience with Court Accountings and Orphans’ Court litigation enhances her understanding of the problems that can develop in estate administration matters and in avoiding similar problems for her clients.  

Courtney received her J.D. and LL.M. from Villanova University Charles Widger Law School. She is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the U.S. District Courts for the District of New Jersey and the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, as well as the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Courtney Dolaway, New Jersey & Pennsylvania estate planning attorney, discusses the advantages of revocable and irrevocable trusts with Michael Menninger, CFP®.

• Part of a team of multidisciplinary attorneys in the representation of a provider of Medicare benefit solutions in connection with its recapitalization project with a private equity firm. The complex transaction entailed significant M&A, asset protection, estate and income tax planning.

• Named a "Lawyer on the Fast Track" by The Legal Intelligencer, 2021
• Named a Pennsylvania "Rising Star" in the area of Estate Planning & Probate, 2019 - 2025, by Thomson Reuters, publishers of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine 
• Named an Awesome Attorney, Trusts & Estates Law, South Jersey Magazine, 2018, 2022

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• Member, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, J. Willard O'Brien American Inn of Court
  • Pro Bono Coordinator (2018-2020)
• Member, The Union League of Philadelphia
• Member, Samaritan Planned Giving Committee