Attorneys

  Ann Thornburg Weiss has been with Timoney Knox since 1984.  Prior to joining  Timoney Knox, she served as law clerk to The Honorable Donald E. Wieand, Judge of the Pennsylvania Superior Court in Allentown, Pennsylvania.  The focus of Ms. Weiss' practice is on municipal law and real estate, including zoning and land development, as well as civil litigation and appellate work.

  Ms. Weiss has more than 30 years of legal experience.  She has served as Solicitor for Perkasie Borough in Bucks County since 2004 and has provided legal services for many other municipal clients including the Municipality of Norristown, Upper Moreland Township, North Wales Water Authority, North Penn Water Authority, Bedminster Township, Lehigh County Authority, Bucks County, Telford Borough Authority, City of Reading, Northampton Township, North Wales Borough, Montgomery Township Municipal Sewer Authority, Hatfield Borough and Milford Township Zoning Hearing Board. 

  Ms. Weiss has written for the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association's magazine The Authority and lectured on Municipal Law at Pennsylvania Bar Association Legal Education Seminars.

  Ms. Weiss was elected twice to the Board of Commissioners of Upper Dublin Township.  She was Chair of the Township Commissioners' Planning Commission and served on the Upper Dublin Township-School District Task Force.  She also served as the Commissioner representative to the Fire Services Strategic Initiatives Steering Committee and on the Task Force for Historic Preservation.      

  She is very active in the community, having been involved in youth athletics, scouting and parent organizations.  She presently serves on the Ambler Ambulance Board of Directors and previously served as Council Member and President of Upper Dublin Lutheran Church, where she teaches first grade Sunday School. 

  Ms. Weiss graduated magna cum laude with honors in political science from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and earned her law degree from Temple University  School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1980.

  Some representative examples of the nature of Ms. Weiss' practice would include:

• Ms. Weiss has worked on matters involving contractual and territorial disputes among municipalities and between municipal authorities and their customers. 
• Has represented private clients on real estate related matters and zoning, land development and condemnation matters before local municipalities and agencies. 
• Ms. Weiss worked for approximately ten years as co-counsel to the North Penn and North Wales Water Authorities in connection with the Point Pleasant Water Diversion Project, known as the PUMP.  This matter, characterized as the single most significant in the recent history of Bucks County, was brought to a successful conclusion for the Montgomery County water authorities, who in settlement of their multi-million dollar damages claim against Bucks County, acquired ownership of the entire water supply project.  This representation involved proceedings before the Bucks County Court, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth and Supreme Courts, the state and federal environmental regulatory authorities and the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board. 
• Represented a county municipal water and sewer authority to defeat the attempt of its largest customer, a major brewing company, to abrogate its long-term obligations under a supply contract.
• Was able to secure a rejection of a validity and curative amendment challenge to a munipal zoning ordinance that would have resulted in the rezoning of nearly 90 acres of rural agriculture land to allow high density apartments and townhouses.
• Assisted a Borough explore the possibility of acquiring its municipal authority in order to consolidate the provision of public services within the Borough.
• Represented water authorities in the settlement of a multi-million dollar damages claim against a county, which resulted in the acquisition by the authorities of a multipurpose water supply project for an electric power facility and residential and commercial water customers.
• Successfully represented a municipal water authority in a territorial dispute involving the proposed expansion into the authority's service area.