Practice Areas:

• Business Law
• Contracts
• Corporate Law
• Elder Law
• Estate Planning
• Home Owner Associations
• Intellectual Property
• Internet Law
• Probate/Estate Administration

Additional areas: Collections, Civil Theft Recovery, Litigation and Real Estate.

Admitted: Pennsylvania Bar
Federal Bar for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Law School: Syracuse University, J.D., 2000.

College: Elizabethtown College, B.A., cum laude, 1997.

Biography:

• Adjunct Faculty, Elizabethtown College, Courses: Business Law and Constitutional Law, 2001-2010.
• Judicial Extern, Chief Judge Thomas J. McAvoy, Federal District Court, Northern District of New York, 1999-2000.
• Assistant Managing Editor, The Digest, The National Italian American Bar Association Journal, 1998-2000.
• Finnegan Fellowship, George I. Bloom Award, 1995.
• Military Medals, Ribbons and Awards 1989-1994.
• Military: Yeoman Third Class Petty Officer, U.S. Navy, 1989-1993; Legal Clerk, USS Seattle; Yeoman Third Class Petty Officer, U.S. Naval Reserves, 1993-1995.

Other Memberships: American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars,  BANG of Dillsburg, DABA.

Born: Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Duane Stone saw the world and returned home to plant his roots, because he loves the people, culture and beauty of South Central Pennsylvania.

Duane graduated from Big Spring High School located in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, but instead of going straight to college he decided he should see the world, so he joined the United States Navy. He served primarily on the USS Seattle (AOE-3), and participated in the Persian Gulf War (I), Bosnian Civil War, Russian Coup and Caribbean Drug Interdiction Operations. He visited 13 countries, and received 13 medals and ribbons for his service. His primary duty was as the Legal Clerk for the ship's six hundred person crew. He helped conduct courts-martial and disciplinary proceedings, prepared estate plans, and advised the ship's Captain on legal issues, including International Law. Duane was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy as a Yeoman Third Class Petty Officer.

Immediately after being discharged Duane studied history and political science at Elizabethtown College. While attending E-town, he served two years in the U.S. Naval Reserves until honorably discharged. E-town College was more than the pursuit of academic knowledge, it was an experience. He married his longtime sweetheart; fought and defeated Hodgkin's disease (a type of cancer); and won the "George Bloom Award" from the Finnegan Fellowship Foundation.  As a Finnegan Fellow, he, worked for two summers in the Office of Policy Development for the Department of Public Welfare, and helped "kick off" the "Governor's Disability Agenda." In 1997, he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

After graduating Duane decided to pursue his goal of becoming an attorney. He chose to go to the Syracuse University College of Law, where he received a Dean's Scholar Scholarship. In his first year he was part of a select group that not only learned the basics of U.S. law, but international law as well. While in law school he decided he wanted to help people create and establish businesses, and to protect their hard earned assets. In his first law school summer he clerked for a local attorney working with Wills and Trusts. During his second year Duane was selected, through a writing competition, to be on The Digest, the Journal of the National Italian American Bar Association, as an Associate Editor.  The following year he became the Assistant Managing Editor. In addition, Duane clerked full time for a firm that specialized in civil litigation. During Duane's third year he became a judicial extern for the Honorable Thomas J. McAvoy, Federal District Judge for the Northern District of New York. While there he worked on habeus corpus petitions, social security petitions, civil suits and election law.

After graduating Duane moved home to South Central Pennsylvania, passed the Pennsylvania bar exam and worked a few years for a local law firm where he gained valuable practical experience in arbitration, business, corporate and non-profit law, contract drafting, nursing home law, collections and estate planning. Duane also began teaching Business Law for Elizabethtown College (where he still teaches business and constitutional law courses).  After practicing law at a firm, Duane decided he needed practical business experience from the perspective of a major corporation for use in advising future clients, so he became an in house counsel for Synertech Health System Solutions, LLC and AMISYS, LLC. There Duane learned the intricacies and balance between law and business. His tasks included drafting and negotiating contracts with Fortune 500 companies and local vendors, and giving advice on proposed business decisions and legal liability.

In 2003, Duane decided to open his law practice dedicated to assisting his clients in reaching their business potential and in preserving the assets they have worked so hard to obtain.  His client base spans all of the United States.  You can usually find him in restaurants and at historic sites throughout Central Pennsylvania. He makes house call in towns and villages throughout Central Pa, including but not limited to: Camp Hill, Carlisle, Shippensburg, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lemoyne, Mechanicsburg, New Cumberland, Hanover, Gettysburg, and York.   To contact him email him at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .