Steinbacher, Goodall & Yurchak, an elder law and special needs law firm with seven locations across Northeastern & Central Pennsylvania, has been named to Pennsylvania Business Central's Fifty to Follow Women-Owned Businesses, an annual list of the top 50 women-owned organizations in its coverage area. Steinbacher, Goodall & Yurchak was founded by Attorney Julie Steinbacher, CELA, LLM, in 2002 in Williamsport. It has since grown from a single office to seven, and also counts two other women as partners in Attorneys Jenna Franks and Kathleen Yurchak.
This marks the fifth straight year and the eighth time in the last 10 years that the law firm has appeared on this annual list. SGY also was named to the "Fifty to Follow" list of women-owned businesses in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2021-24. The list appears each June in PA Business Central's Women in Business special edition. Readers of the publication submit nominations from communities across its 23-county readership, and the final list is chosen by a blue-ribbon panel. The final list represents both large and small, and well-established and start-up organizations.
For the second time in three years, a record-tying seven attorneys from the elder law firm of Steinbacher, Goodall & Yurchak have been named 2025 Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars in the annual rating service compiled by Thomson Reuters.
Attorney Julie Steinbacher, CELA*, the founding shareholder of SGY, as well as Attorneys Amos Goodall and Kathleen Yurchak were named Super Lawyers, which represents the top five percent of practicing attorneys in each state. Attorneys Jenna Franks, Landon Hodges, Megan Ingram and Pat Santucci were each named Rising Stars.
Steinbacher, Goodall & Yurchak, an elder law firm with seven locations throughout northeastern, north central and central Pennsylvania, has been named a Top 100 Organization by Pennsylvania Business Central in its annual list of Top 100 organizations. This list by the business publication recognizes leading organizations in their chosen fields, "bringing new ideas, technology and services to their counties and spheres of influence." Nominees from PA Business Central's 23-county readership are submitted and the Top 100 are selected by an editorial committee due to their positive impacts in the business community of Central Pennsylvania.
This marks the seventh consecutive year that Steinbacher, Goodall & Yurchak has been named in the Top 100 Organizations list. It has also been included on this list several other times in the past, including in 2017. This latest honor adds to a string of recent honors for the firm and several of its associates. Last year, SGY was named to the Best Law Firm® rankings by Best Lawyers in its annual Best Law Firm Rankings, an annual peer-to-peer rankings service, which marked the second straight year that SGY was listed in these rankings. SGY was also named to U.S. News & World Report's "Best Law Firms" in Pennsylvania in 2018, and was awarded the Business Partnership of the Year by the PA Future Business Leaders of America in 2020. The firm was also named to Pennsylvania Business Central's Fifty to Follow Women-Owned Businesses (formerly called the Top 50 Woman Owned Businesses) last year for the fourth consecutive year, and the seventh time in the last nine years.Individually, last year, Attorneys Jenna Franks and Landon Hodges earned their Certified Elder Law Attorney certification (CELA), giving the firm three CELAs, which is the most of any firm in SGY's geographic footprint and the second-most of any law firm in Pennsylvania, which has just 65 CELAs throughout the entire state (as of June 2025).
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