Weston is a member of the firm’s Estates & Trusts, Fiduciary Services & Risk Management, and Municipal & School Practice Groups. His practice focuses primarily on estate planning, trust and estate administration, fiduciary counseling, and Orphans’ Court matters.

Weston works with individuals and families across a broad range of financial circumstances to develop estate plans tailored to their goals and needs. His experience ranges from sophisticated wealth transfer and federal estate tax planning for high-net-worth individuals to foundational estate planning for young families and individuals beginning their professional careers. He also advises clients on asset protection, special needs planning, and long-term care planning, and guides executors, trustees, and beneficiaries through estate and trust administration.

A significant part of Weston’s practice involves advising individual and corporate fiduciaries on the administration, interpretation, modification, and termination of trusts. He counsels fiduciaries on their responsibilities and assists in resolving complex issues involving ambiguous or outdated trust provisions. He also advises on trust modifications to address changed circumstances, carry out a grantor’s intent, and achieve tax or other planning objectives. Weston has substantial experience with charitable trust matters, including petitions to modify or terminate charitable trusts based on impracticability or under the doctrine of cy pres, and regularly works with the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office in connection with such proceedings.

Weston is an experienced practitioner before the Orphans’ Court, where he represents individuals and corporate fiduciaries in contested trust, estate, and guardianship matters. His litigation experience includes breach of fiduciary duty claims, fiduciary accountings, removal proceedings, and petitions for surcharge, among other disputes involving the administration of trusts and estates. He has represented clients through trial and obtained favorable results in contested proceedings. He also represents clients in incapacity proceedings and matters involving the appointment and administration of guardianships.

In addition to his estates and trusts practice, Weston serves as co-solicitor for the Borough of Ben Avon and solicitor for the Avalon-Bellevue-Ben Avon Joint Planning Commission. He advises municipal and school district clients on matters involving the Sunshine Act, Right-to-Know Law, and Municipalities Planning Code, as well as ordinance and policy drafting, zoning and land use matters, tax assessment appeals, and general litigation.

Weston earned his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Political Science from Susquehanna University and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America and as a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Super Lawyers since 2024. Weston resides in Ben Avon with his beautiful wife and two children.