Marvin H. Gold, Esquire
50 Years of Practicing Law — and a Lifetime of Hands-On Experience
I am a highly experienced general practitioner. In the early 1970’s, I made Dean’s List at Temple Law School attending night classes while working full-time as an auto mechanic at Harbison Volkswagen in Jenkintown.
After graduating Law School and passing the Bar exam, I taught myself construction techniques and transformed an old Hatboro shoe store into the functional and attractive Law Office at 237 S. York Road where I, joined by my son Travis in 2014, have practiced law since 1975.
At about the same time, I began the decades long process of converting a 100-year-old post and beam Bucks County stone barn in Ivyland, into a beautiful and unique handcrafted home where my wife of 52 years, Bev and I have lived and raised our two children.
I am “hands-on” accomplished in plumbing, electric, roofing, siding, masonry, framing, trim, carpentry, drywall and all of the related construction skills and trades, as well as auto repair.
In my 50 years of practice, I have tried and won (and on rare occasions lost) almost every type of case, criminal and civil, state and federal, small to large, simple to complex. Aided by my knowledge of auto mechanics and home construction and the wisdom gained from handling thousands of disputes in dozens of different businesses, occupations, professions and circumstances, I will understand your wants and needs and develop the best strategy to successfully negotiate with opponents most of the time and win over judges and juries when negotiation fails.
I have written hundreds of Wills and Trust documents, represented hundreds of people going through the pain, anxiety, and expense of divorce, dissolution of businesses, administering decedents’ estates, defending criminal charges and an almost infinite variety of legal problems. I have also helped people create new business ventures, insulate their assets from creditors, negotiate their leases, protect their transactions, draft their contracts and minimize the consequences of criminal charges.
I create documents that are clear and concise, short and easily understood, functional and effective rather than long, complex and often confusing.
I became an attorney because of my own misfortune of being badly represented by another attorney during my second year in college when I was charged with possession of a few grams of marijuana in 1968. This minor indiscretion, no longer considered criminal in many jurisdictions, resulted in years of court probation, years of disciplinary probation in college and disqualification from public school teaching. It almost made it impossible to enter law school and thereafter almost impossible to take the Bar exam. But on October 8, 1975, I was admitted to the Bar of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania.
When I am not practicing law, I can be found working outdoors at the family farm, renovating buildings, splitting firewood or playing with my two grandchildren and my yellow lab, Rocky. I also spend time repairing and maintaining cars, trucks and farm equipment, building things out of wood and, when the weather is right and time is available, camping with family and friends.
50 years after passing the Bar exam, I still immensely enjoy the practice of law and look forward to meeting every new client and tackling every new challenge.