The attorneys and staff of Wix, Wenger & Weidner
Fifty years after its founding, Wix, Wenger and Weidner has not strayed far from its roots.
The Harrisburg-based law firm started as a smaller, niche firm and remains that today.
“We’re not stretched too thinly,” said attorney Steven Wilds, who’s been with the firm for 40 years. “A lot of my clients are long-term, repeat clients. It shows a lot about the confidence they have in us.”
The firm’s main office in downtown Harrisburg employs five attorneys handling a “wide variety of civil matters with a strong emphasis on real estate, business and corporate law, community association law, estate planning and administration and litigation,” according to the firm. Most of the office’s litigation relates to real estate and commercial matters.
A branch office in Lower Paxton Township features two more attorneys who primarily practice personal injury law, medical malpractice and wills, estate planning and administration.
“Our clients get to know our attorneys and staff. Some of our paralegals have been here for 40 years,” said attorney David Getz, who began with the firm in March 1988. “It’s nice to have clients call here and have the same person answer the phone year after year.”
Wix, Wenger and Weidner was established in 1973 by attorneys Dick Wix and Tom Wenger, who both worked previously for other area firms. Likewise for attorney Dean Weidner, who became Wix and Wenger’s third name in 1975.
Wenger and Weidner have since retired but remain in close contact with the firm. Wix still practices as firm counsel in the areas of medical malpractice, personal injury, civil litigation and municipal law.
Weidner, of Mechanicsburg, retired in 2019 at age 75 after 44 years with the practice. His legal career began as a partner with Rhoads & Sinon of Harrisburg, but he later left for the “smaller firm,” where he could “share in the management,” he stated.
“I thought we had a good combination of values and people, and we provided quality service to our consumers,” Weidner said of the firm that still bears his name.
Weidner witnessed much change during his four-plus decades in the field, much due to the march of technology. These changes, though, haven’t always been for the best, he believes.
“The internet and emails are much less personal ways of dealing with people than what we did before technology came to rise,” he said. “I liked interacting with our clients and helping them solve problems.”
When Weidner first came into the practice, he remembers dictating business correspondence to a staff secretary, who then typed and mailed out his letters. By the tail end of his career, he found himself dictating into a recorder and typing his own letters, he recalled with a laugh.
For many years, Wix, Wenger and Weidner has used the motto, “Client Centric, Solution Driven,” to describe its approach to practicing law.
“That tagline is usually front and center on our business cards, logo, website, email signatures, etc.,” stated Getz, of Hampden Township. “Our motto fits in with about how we pride ourselves on being dealmakers, not deal-breakers. We keep our clients and their needs at the center of our practice, and we seek to find solutions to legal matters that our clients are facing.”
Today, Getz said that he works with second- and third-generation descendants of his original clients. Wilds, of Susquehanna Township, said that he experiences the same. Likewise, staff change is infrequent, which also appeals to the firm’s long-term clients.
“People just come and stay here,” Getz said.
Wix, Wenger & Weidner is located at 508 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg, and at 4705 Duke St., Harrisburg (Lower Paxton Township). For more information, visit wwwpalaw.com.
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