Lancaster, Pa. – Barley Snyder LLP is proud to announce it has welcomed Reilly S. Noetzel as its newest attorney, hiring him as an associate in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Noetzel is a graduate of Lancaster’s Franklin & Marshall College and is a Lancaster County native who will be joining the firm effective Feb. 1. He comes to Barley Snyder after graduating with a J.D. from Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law in May 2016. Most recently, he worked in the Pennsylvania Office of the Consumer Advocate in Harrisburg.

“I am thrilled to be returning home to Lancaster County to begin working for Barley,” he said. “I have always admired the firm’s reputation in the community and I look forward to helping clients with all aspects of real estate law.”

He previously worked in Harrisburg at the Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel within the Department of State in 2014 as a summer extern. He has also been part of the summer employment programs at J.P. Morgan Chase in Newark, Del., and at Alcorn, Sage, Schwartz & McGrath LLP, a Madison, In., law firm where he was a summer associate in 2015.

“Bringing in Reilly immediately makes us a stronger unit, both as a group and as a firm,” said Maria Elliott, Barley Snyder partner and chair of the Real Estate, Environmental and Municipal Practice Group. “Our real estate work has been growing very quickly, and Reilly’s familiarity with the industry and enthusiasm means he can hit the ground running to really help us.”

At Maurer School of Law, Noetzel worked as the online editor for the Indiana Law Journal, the school’s law review.