The Honorable Stanley R. Ott (Ret.) Receives the Montgomery Bar Association Lifetime Achievement Award, Sponsored by The Pugh Lawyers

Yesterday, our esteemed colleague, The Honorable Stanley R. Ott (Ret.), was awarded the second annual Montgomery Bar Association Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by The Pugh Lawyers. The Award was presented at the Montgomery Bar Association’s Annual Business Luncheon Meeting at the Bluestone Country Club in Blue Bell, PA.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented once a year to “a member of the Montgomery Bar Association whose professional integrity, volunteerism, and service to the Montgomery Bar Association and the Montgomery Community at large exemplifies the best ideals of the legal profession.”

Lifetime Achievement Award recipients are selected by a committee comprised of the President of the Montgomery Bar Association, the Chair of the Montgomery Bar Association Awards Committee and a Pugh family attorney.

Montgomery Bar President Justin A. Bayer shared, “Judge Stanley Ott is the embodiment of what The Pugh Lawyers envisioned when they created the Lifetime Achievement Award. His contributions to Montgomery County and the Orphans’ Court speak for themselves. The unanimous decision to name Judge Ott the recipient of this year’s award was an easy one.”

Judge Ott’s name will be added to a plaque which will be displayed at the Montgomery Bar Association, in addition to a $500 contribution to the charity of his choice.

Judge Ott served as a Common Pleas Judge in the 38th Judicial District in Montgomery County beginning in 1988. In 1994, he became Administrative Judge of the Orphans' Court Division. In 2016, he assumed Senior Judge status until his retirement at the end of 2018. Over two hundred of his written opinions have been published in the Fiduciary Reporter, a publication containing select decisions from the Orphans’ Court involving trusts and estates.

Judge Ott is currently Of Counsel with Mannion Prior, a fiduciary litigation firm headquartered in King of Prussia with an office in Doylestown. He began working with Mannion Prior in 2019, where he leads the Alternative Dispute Resolution practice and serves as an expert witness on estate and trust matters.