A native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, John Zurich began working at McQuaide Blasko in 2016, where he devotes his practice to working with colleagues in the Business and Real Estate Practice Group, as well as the Estate Planning Practice Group.
As a member of the firm’s Business and Real Estate Practice Group, John assists clients with a variety of legal needs, including the buying and selling of businesses, company formation, shareholder and partnership agreements, commercial business loans, the review and drafting of commercial real estate leases, and a variety of business contracts. Since being admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1993, he has represented many entrepreneurs, real estate developers and local businesses. As a licensed title insurance agent, he also handles residential and commercial real estate closings.
Although the vast majority of John’s practice is devoted to transactional matters, he has also worked over the years as co-counsel with civil litigation attorneys in handling a variety of business lawsuits. John’s experience with business law and transactional work has helped to provide litigation attorneys with key early case assessment and to distill down the key facts and issues to craft a customized strategy. John has assisted clients involved in litigation find creative solutions that address the risks and costs that are inherent with litigating business disputes, and to discuss and evaluate probable outcomes.
- Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Member, Lycoming County Bar Association
- Board Member, N. Central PA Estate Planners Council
- Past Executive Committee Member, Lycoming Law Association
- Past Board Member and President, Williamsport Country Club
- The Ohio CPA Journal: Auditors’ Liability to Third Parties Under Common Law: Traditional Approaches and Recent Trend, Vol 52, No. 4 (1993)
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Licenses/Certifications: PA licensed title insurance agent
- J.D., Widener University Delaware Law School, Wilmington, DE (1992)
- M.B.A., Widener University School of Management, Chester, PA (1992)
- B.S., Greensboro College, NC, Business Administration, 1987