Merideth E. Ketterer focuses her practice on estate planning, trust and estate administration, and estate and gift taxation.
Merideth grew up in Hanover, Pennsylvania and graduated cum laude from Temple University with a bachelor’s degree in strategic communication and a minor in business studies. Merideth received her J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law and was the recipient of the Nancy J. Knauer & Eleanor W. Myers Integrated Transactional Program Award. After law school, she completed a judicial clerkship with the Honorable John J. Matheussen, Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County.
Merideth is an Adjunct Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law where she teaches “Transactional Practice I” to J.D. students as part of the Integrated Transactional Program. She is currently serving as a Director-at-Large of the Temple University Alumni Association and is a Past President of the Temple University Young Alumni Association.
Merideth was nominated for and graduated from Class IV of the Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute (“MAFI”), sponsored by the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She was also a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Bar Leadership Institute, Class of 2024-2025.
Prior to joining Heckscher, Teillon, Terrill & Sager, Merideth was an associate at a boutique trusts and estates law firm in Princeton, New Jersey.
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Bar Leadership Institute, Class of 2024-2025
- New Jersey Bar Association
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Florida Bar Association
- Out of State Division
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Probate and Trust Law Section
- Young Lawyers Division Liaison (2024 – Present)
- Probate and Trust Law Section
- Montgomery Bar Association
- Co-Coordinator for the Wills for Heroes Program (2025 – Present)
- Philadelphia Estate Planning Council
- Montgomery County Estate Planning Council
- 2024 Co-Speaker, Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Traps: How to Safely Navigate Through Chapter 13 of the Internal Revenue Code, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Estate Law Institute (December 4, 2025).
- 2024 Panelist, Careers in Tax Panel, Temple University Beasley School of Law (March 25, 2024).
- 2023 Panelist, Trusts & Estates Panel, Widener University Delaware Law (November 8, 2023).
- 2025 Featured Member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section (March 2025).
- 2024 Author, Access to Digital Assets Kicked Off “Hot Powers” List, Philadelphia Bar Association, Probate and Trust Law Section Newsletter (August 2024).