Partner
Phone: 610-940-4191
Email: bterebelo@htts.com
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Brad Terebelo's practice involves all aspects of trust and estate planning
and administration, focusing extensively on trust administration and fiduciary
litigation. Brad has spoken and written on issues concerning trust modification
and change of situs. He presented at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orphans'
Court Rules Committee concerning representation of minor, unborn and unascertained
beneficiaries in trust proceedings. Brad serves as current chair of the
Litigation Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Probate
and Trust Law Section, for which he authors a quarterly article concerning
recent developments in fiduciary litigation. Brad is also a former member
of the executive committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Probate
and Trust Law Section and was former chair of that Section's Legislative
Committee.
Brad graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where he received
his bachelor's degree, with honors, in English and Earth and Planetary
Science. He then received his master's degree in English in 2002,
focusing on medieval literature.
Brad was named a Rising Star by
Philadelphia Magazine in trust and estate law in 2014, 2015, 2016 and again in 2017, and as a
Superlawyer in 2020 and 2021. He is also a Best Lawyer (2021). In 2019,
Brad was named a Lawyer on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer as part of the publications annual Professional Excellence Awards. Brad
is among 25 attorneys who were selected to receive the Lawyer on the Fast
Track award by a committee of six from various areas of the legal professionals
through out the Commonwealth. Brad is a Fellow of the American College
of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).
In 2007, Brad graduated
cum laude from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he served as a publications
editor for the Temple Journal of Science, Technology & Environmental
Law and was a member of Temple's award-winning Trial Advocacy Team.
In the summer of 2005, Brad worked as a summer clerk for the Honorable
John T.J. Kelly, Jr., of the Pennsylvania Superior Court.
PRACTICE AREAS
- Estate and Tax Planning
- Fiduciary Litigation
- Trust Administration
- Estate Administration
EDUCATION
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Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, J.D.,
cum laude (2007)
- Washington University, M.A. (2002)
- Washington University, B.A. (2001)
ADMISSIONS
- Pennsylvania (2007)
- New Jersey (2007)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
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Philadelphia Bar Association
- Probate Section, Litigation Committee, Chair
- Probate Section, Legislative Committee, Member
- American Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Montgomery Bar Association
- Philadelphia Estate Planning Council
- Montgomery County Estate Planning Council
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (2019)
- Best Lawyers in America (2021)
-
Lawyer on the Fast Track,
The Legal Intelligencer (2019)
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star (2014 - 2017)
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyer (2020-2021)