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For the Third Consecutive Year, Steven F. Fairlie, Esquire, Has Been Selected A Member of The National Advocacy for DUI Defense (NAFDD) Fairlie & Lippy, P.C., a Montgomery County Criminal Defense and Personal Injury firm, is pleased to announce that for the third consecutive year, Managing Partner, Steven F. Fairlie, was recognized by The National Advocacy for […]

Earlier this week, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced it had agreed with all 40 local municipal police forces to purchase a third-party DNA database.   The BodeHITS database, costing approximately $600,000 per year, will allow  individuals to enter evidence and check for matches.    The results are then shared between the various municipal […]

Under the Criminal History Record Information Act, those with criminal convictions, who have already fully paid their debt to society, cannot be discriminated against unreasonably through a company’s employment practices.  The Act covers arrests and convictions unrelated to the position sought.    You may recall that back in May, we described the process and importance of […]

Montgomery County’s trial run (no pun intended) of having one Judge handle every single DUI case in the county will be discontinued next year.  Instead, the workload will be split between the eight judges who currently hear criminal cases.    This news will have substantial ramifications going forward for all litigants and their attorneys in Montgomery […]

A few weeks back, the New York Times reported that more than 60% of studies in a survey of leading social science papers could not hold up under scrutiny. Although the study, nicknamed the “Reproducibility Project,” did not uncover any evidence of intentional deception or complete falsity, it does call into question many studies that […]