Christopher M. Brown
Christopher M. Brown is a lifelong resident of the greater Philadelphia Area, having been born and raised in Westbrook Park (Clifton Heights) and raised in Glen Mills. He graduated from Salesianum School in Wilmington, Delaware in 2004. In 2008, Chris earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies from West Chester University.
While attending law school, Chris spent a summer working as an intern for the Office of the District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Chris then worked as a law clerk for a private Media law firm while earning his Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law – Delaware (now Delaware Law School), where he first became motivated to pursue a law career focused on estate planning. Upon his graduation in 2011, he became an associate attorney at that same firm where he remained until joining Eckell Sparks in May of 2017.
Chris concentrates his practice in the areas of business formation and development, estate and trust planning, administration, and Orphan’s Court litigation. He has discussed and presented these topics on podcasts, live seminars, and speaking engagements (including a segment on the local CBS news station).
Chris is also experienced in the areas of real estate, general civil litigation, zoning and land use, and business formation. Chris was voted by his peers as a Main Line Today Top Lawyer in the area Wills and Trusts every year since 2017, he has been a Super Lawyers Rising Star since 2019, and readers of the Delaware county Daily Times have voted Chris among its Best Lawyers in the Wills, Trusts & Estates category as recently as 2021.
Chris is an active member of the Delaware County Bar Association in the Young Lawyers Section, where he has served as the Section’s Treasurer and now serves as Secretary. He accepts appointments by the Register of Wills to administer estates as personal representative, serves as an Arbitrator in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, and served as a former Editor of the Delaware County Legal Journal.
Chris is admitted to practice before both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Trial and Appellate Courts, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and has appeared before various municipal government branches and administrative law agencies. Chris is additionally the former co-coordinator of the 2018 High School Mock Trial competition held at Delaware County Community College.
In 2020, Chris implemented strategies, such a curbside Will-signings, to allow clients to continue to safely complete their critical estate planning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chris lives in West Bradford Township in the greater Downingtown area with his wife, Meghan, and their sons, Jack and Brady.
loading …

Areas of Practice
- Estate Administration
- Estate Planning
- Estate Litigation
- Real Estate
- Civil Litigation
- Zoning and Land Use
Admitted to Practice
- Pennsylvania Trial Courts
- Pennsylvania Appellate Courts
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Education
- Widener University, School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 2011
- West Chester University, BA Communication Studies, 2008