Marie K. McConnell is a shareholder and Chair of the Firm’s Corporate, Business & Banking Group. Her transactional practice focuses on commercial real estate acquisitions and sales, entity restructures, charter schools, nonprofit mergers, affiliations and acquisitions and organizational issues. She also has significant experience in counseling clients with respect to federal, state and local tax exemptions and appeals.
Ms. McConnell merges an undergraduate background in economics and an LL.M. in taxation into her legal practice, resulting in thoughtful, business-oriented solutions that fit each client’s goals. She is a trusted advisor to her clients and values the personal relationships she has built over the years. Ms. McConnell is dedicated, driven and highly responsive.
Ms. McConnell brings the same passion with which she serves her clients to the Lehigh Valley community and the firm itself. She is currently serving as Secretary of CREW Lehigh Valley, the local 130+ member chapter of a 14,000 member global organization dedicated to transforming the commercial real estate industry by advancing women. Additionally, she is a past member of the firm’s Executive Committee, and current member of its Compensation Committee.
In 2024, Ms. McConnell was recognized on the Power List in Law by Lehigh Valley Business, and has previously been honored as a Woman of Influence. In addition, her peers recognized her as a “Super Lawyer – Pennsylvania Rising Star” from 2012-2023, a designation awarded to only 2.5% of attorneys in Pennsylvania under 40. She was also honored by the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce as the inaugural “Future Business Leader of the Lehigh Valley” in 2013.
She is local to the area, having grown up in Allentown.
