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Fairlie & Lippy sweeps Criminal Law awards for Top Lawyers of Montgomery County as seen in The Reporter, Times Herald, and The Mercury

Filed under: Fairlie & Lippy News by Steven F. Fairlie @ May 13, 2025

Fairlie & Lippy was voted the top lawyers for three different categories – Montgomery County Criminal Defense, DUI and Juvenile. The entire firm was recognized forMontgomery County Criminal Defense. Christine Cregar was singled out for her outstanding work in DUI. Although I believe we’ve won some if not all of these awards in past years, […]

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Abington man shoots robber in defense of others

Filed under: Criminal Law by Steven F. Fairlie @ September 25, 2024

Many people are familiar with the concept of self defense, but Pennsylvania defense law also permits the use of deadly force in defense of others. In this case, just this past Monday, an Abington man woke up to his mother’s screams for help. She had just returned home from a trip to a casino and […]

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Steve Fairlie on Nationally Syndicated Marijuana DUI Show

Filed under: Criminal Law, DUI, Fairlie & Lippy News by David Keightly @ August 19, 2024

Steven Fairlie was a guest on this morning’s nationally syndicated Price of Business Show. He and host Kevin Price spoke about the hidden pitfall of using medical marijuana in Pennsylvania. The “dirty little secret” is that if you drive with any amount of marijuana or metabolite in your system, Pennsylvania considers that a Marijuana DUI. […]

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Scam alert: Bitcoins don’t clear up bench warrants!

Filed under: Criminal Law, News by David Keightly @ August 13, 2024

PSA: If you have any bench warrants for your arrest, there are a few ways to clean it up, like: One method that will definitely not work is falling for the latest scam that asks you to put down a “bond” by paying thousands of dollars into a Bitcoin terminal. Bitcoin was established over 15 […]

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DA Pledges to Charge Drug Dealers with First-Degree Murder

Filed under: Criminal Law, Drug Crimes by David Keightly @ August 12, 2024

Last Thursday at a press conference, the District Attorney in Lycoming County announced two big arrests of drug dealers who were supplying much of north-central Pennsylvania with fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine. Like in most press conferences, he held up the mugshots of the two ringleaders and displayed an impressive assortment of drugs that they seized […]

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