Contact:
Phone: 215-665-3206
Fax: 215-665-3165
Email: robert.whitelaw@obermayer.com
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Office:
Philadelphia, PA
One Penn Center, 19th Floor
1617 John F. Kennedy Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1895

Practice Areas:
Commercial Litigation
Family Law Group
Litigation

Education:
Amherst College (BA '67)
Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Law (JD '70)

Professional/Civic Activities:
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
  Vice President (July 2008-present) 
  Past Secretary (July 2007-July 2008)
Prince Music Theater, Chairman of the Board

Honors:

Robert I. Whitelaw is the managing partner of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP. He is co-chairman of the firm’s Litigation Department.

Mr. Whitelaw has over 39 years of experience practicing law at Obermayer. He has extensive experience in a wide variety of issues relating to marriage and family law, including division of property, alimony, tax matters, child custody, visitation and support, prenuptial agreements, adoption and paternity. He is an experienced advisor and litigator in partnership and corporate matters with respect to formation, succession and dissolution. He also has a comprehensive background in probate, fiduciary and administration of estates.

Mr. Whitelaw joined Obermayer in 1970 as an associate in the firm’s Fiduciary Department. He was made partner in 1978, became managing partner in 1986, and has held the position of co-chairman of the Litigation Department since 1983.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, Amherst, MA, and his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Philadelphia.

Mr. Whitelaw is a fellow with the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is also a member of the Family Law, Litigation and Probate sections of the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations and the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. He currently serves as Vice President, Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and is a former Secretary (July 2007-July 2008). 

His civic activities include: Chairman of the Board, Prince Music Theater; Trustee, Anna Vincent Scholarship Trust; arbitrator, the American Arbitration Association; instructor, Main Line Paralegal Institute; author and lecturer, Pennsylvania Bar Institute; lecturer, Dickinson Law Forum; member, board of directors, Big Brothers and Sisters of Philadelphia (President 1996-98) and panel member of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Whitelaw has been named in Best Lawyers in America from 1995 to the present and "Ten Leaders of Greater Philadelphia Matrimonial and Divorce Law" (2005-2006).  He is named as one of Pennsylvania’s “Super Lawyers” as listed in both the Philadelphia magazine (June 2004 to June 2009 editions) and the Law and Politics Magazine, “Pennsylvania Super Lawyers” (2004 to 2009 editions). He is also listed as one of the Top 100 Philadelphia attorneys and Top 100 Pennsylvania attorneys (2004-2007).

Mr. Whitelaw is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.