Legal Services & Lawyers

Deanna R. Pealer has been delivering quality legal services to to citizens of Columbia and Montour counties since 1979. Her mission is to meet the regular the legal needs of individuals and small businesses.Her practice includes personal injury litigation, civil litigation, family law, wills and estates, real estate, bankruptcy, forming corporations and LLC's and a lot more.

Jeffrey A. Marshall, Esq., CELA is managing attorney and a principal of Marshall, Parker & Associates, LLC. He is certified as an elder law attorney (CELA) by the National Elder Law Foundation. Attorney Marshall’s practice is focused on elder law which includes, long term care planning, estate planning, and estate administration. He is a recognized authority on elder law and has been quoted by numerous national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Kiplinger Retirement Report, and the Chicago Tribune. He has been named as a “Super Lawyer” in the field of elder law for each of the past 5 years. In addition, he has been selected as one of the Top 100 Pennsylvania Attorneys in all fields for 2008. He is also listed in Best Lawyers in America.

Attorney Marshall is the author of the book, Elder Law in Pennsylvania, published by PBI Press (www.pbi.org). Elder Law in Pennsylvania received the 2006 award for Outstanding Achievement in Publications from the Association for Continuing Legal Education, an international association of legal education professionals. Mr. Marshall is a contributing author to a number of other publications including Estate Planning in Pennsylvania. In addition to his law practice, he teaches educational courses for lawyers, Department of Aging staff, nursing home administrators, financial planners, and other elder care network professionals as well as consumers. He is a VA accredited attorney for the preparation, presentation and prosecution of claims for veterans benefits before the Department of Veterans Affairs. Attorney Marshall is also qualified as an Advance Health Care Planning Facilitator in accordance with the Respecting Choices® program. A native of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, he received his law degree from Stanford University in 1972, where he served as an Editor of the Stanford Law Review. He is past chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Elder Law Committee, and currently serves on its Governing Council. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He has been a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys since 1988.

Attorney Weber is a native of Muncy, Pennsylvania. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Lycoming College and received her law degree from Temple University. Attorney Weber was a federal judicial law clerk for the Honorable Louis C. Bechtle, Federal District Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where she was involved with major federal investigations and prosecutions. While in this position, she was the recipient of the Department of Health & Human Services Inspector General's Integrity Award for the investigation and criminal conviction of the first Medicare money laundering seizure case in the country. Attorney Weber has also served as an adjunct professor at Saint Joseph's University Graduate Criminal Justice Program where she designed and taught a course on Law and Social Policy. For several years, Attorney Weber sat on the editorial board of the Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia's legal newspaper. She is a VA accredited attorney for the preparation, presentation and prosecution of claims for veterans benefits before the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is course planner for the Pennsylvania Bar Association's course on "Representing an Individual Entering a Nursing Home." She is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Elder Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and is the Vice President of the Northcentral Pennsylvania Estate Planners Council. Attorney Weber and her daughter Sarah live in Montoursville. She spends any remaining spare time playing piano and volunteering at her church.