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The National Trial Lawyers has named Montgomery County Lawyer Steven Fairlie one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers for 2011.  The National Trial Lawyers is a professional organization of America’s top trial lawyers.  Recognition by the organization is extended to those individuals who exemplify superior qualifications, trial results, and leadership and is by invitation only.  […]

You purchase your dream stucco-clad home from a “reputable builder”. Everything goes according to plan and you and your family move in to finally enjoy the fruits of your labor. However, as time passes your dream home quickly turns into a nightmare. Perhaps it started with one leaky window or skylight.  Then you saw scaffolding […]

Tuesday, June 28, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed legislation into law that will amend the mechanics of civil liability in negligence cases – which includes most personal injury cases. The “Fair Share Act” as it has been coined, essentially replaces the current doctrine of joint and several liability that has ruled Pennsylvania since the Colonial […]

Discovery is critical to any civil lawsuit. This is the phase in which the parties request documents, ask question, and depose the witness to establish the facts in the case before trial. While discovery is generally far-reaching, just how far does it go? With Pennsylvania trial courts split on how to handle social media discovery […]

Conventional wisdom amongst lawyers holds that Judges can better disregard inadmissible evidence when rendering a verdict. Any time there is evidence that is not permitted to be presented to the fact finder, the Judge must make that ruling and therefore must see the evidence. Similarly, sometimes the inadmissible evidence is blurted out in court before […]