Jill Fowler’s practice includes estate planning and administration, advising trustees, and charitable planning.
Jill is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and formerly chaired its Tax Committee of the Probate & Trust Law Section. She is also a member of the Delaware and Montgomery County Bar Associations, Philadelphia Estate Planning Council, and the Florida Bar Association’s Out of State Practitioners’ Division.
Jill is recognized as a Super Lawyer, and was a Top 50 Women in Philadelphia in Super Lawyers in 2020 and 2021. She is also named in Best Lawyers and has an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating from Martindale Hubbell. Jill is recognized by Chambers and Partners as a Band 2 attorney in their High Net Worth Guide.
Jill was an adjunct professor in the graduate tax program at Villanova University School of Law and a frequent guest speaker on estate planning and tax topics for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Jill is co-author of Tax Planning for Lifetime and Testamentary Dispositions, With Forms, ed. 2 (ALI-ABA, 2005), an estate planning guide for professionals.
- Montgomery Bar Association
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Florida Bar Association
- Out of State Practioners’ Division
- Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Elected 2009
- AV rating, Martindale Hubbell
- Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide (2021 – 2022)
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyer (2010 – present)
- Top 50 Women (2020)
- Best Lawyers (2006 – present)
- Adjunct Professor, Graduate Tax Program, Villanova University (2008 – 2014)
- 2022 Jill R. Fowler, Speaker, “Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax – Not Just the Basics,” Pennsylvania Bar Insitute, Virtual Webinar.
- 2016 Jill R. Fowler, Speaker, “Drafting Pre- and Post-Nuptial Agreements,” with Cheryl Young; Jill R. Fowler, Panelist, “Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 23nd Annual Estate Law Institute,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 2012 Jill R. Fowler, Speaker, “Gift Tax Presentation – The Law and the Lore,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute, “19th Annual Estate Law Institute,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (also 2011).
- 2011 Jill R. Fowler, Speaker, “How to Write a Will – and Other Essential Estate Planning Documents,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 2008 Jill R. Fowler, Speaker, “How to Prepare the Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Return,” 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania locations.
- 2006 Jill R. Fowler, Speaker, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Graduate Tax Program, guest speaker on state death taxes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also 2005.
- 2005 Jill R. Fowler, Co-Author, “Tax Planning for Lifetime and Testamentary Dispositions, Second Edition, With Forms,” co-author with Professor Don W. Llewellyn, used as textbook in Villanova Graduate Tax Program, over 600 pages.
- 2003 Jill R. Fowler, Speaker, “Preparing the Fiduciary and the Decedent’s Final Income Tax Returns,” Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania locations.
- 2003 Jill R. Fowler, Speaker/Author, “Planning when the Future of the Wealth Transfer Tax Law is Uncertain,” Villanova University School of Law, Graduate Tax Program, Villanova, Pennsylvania.
