Rick Holzworth’s practice focuses on fiduciary litigation in administrative proceedings, trial courts, and appellate courts. His clients include individuals, corporate fiduciaries, non-profit entities, and closely-held businesses throughout Pennsylvania and across the country. He has significant experience in a variety of matters involving estates, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney, and charitable interests.
Rick frequently speaks and writes on fiduciary litigation and estate and trust topics, including will contests, attorney-client privilege and the fiduciary exception, and issues involving medical marijuana. He currently serves on the Council for the Pennsylvania Bar Association Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section and on the Executive Committee for the Philadelphia Probate and Trust Law Section. Rick has been named a Rising Star by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers in 2023 and 2024 and is a graduate of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute.
Outside of his legal practice, Rick serves on the Board of Directors for Ardent Credit Union, which was named as Philly’s Favorite Credit Union in 2024.
- Ardent Credit Union, Board of Directors (2022 – Present)
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Real Property, Probate, & Trust Law Section
- Council (2023-Present)
- Task Force for the Fiduciary Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege
- Real Property, Probate, & Trust Law Section
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Probate and Trust Law Section
- Executive Committee (2024 – Present)
- Orphans’ Court Litigation Committee
- Montgomery County Bar Association
- Graduate of the ACTEC Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute (2022)
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, Rising Star (2023 and 2024)
- “Scaife and the Fiduciary Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute (November 2023)
- “Trusts, Estates, and Cannabis: A Beginner’s Guide to Ridin’ Dirty,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute (November 2023)
- “Cannabis Litigation Survey,” International Cannabis Bar Association Conference (October 2018)
- “Will Contests,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute (November 2018)
- “Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Act,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute (October 2017)
- “Split McAleer Ruling Leaves Attorney-Client Privilege Fiduciary Exception in Limbo,” JD Supra (August 2021)
- “McAleer Highlights Division Regarding Fiduciary Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege,” Philadelphia Estate Planning Council Summer Newsletter (August 2021)
- “New Law Gives Pennsylvania Executors Power of Decedents’ Social Media and Other Digital Content,” JD Supra (January 2021)
- “Pennsylvania Permanently Allows Remote Notarization of Documents, JD Supra (January 2021)