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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has announced adoption of the first new set of rules regulating court reporting and court transcripts in more than thirty years. Among the issues updated are the maximum costs for transcripts, ownership of transcripts and payment therefore (to the court rather than court reporters), waiving fees for litigants who are unable […]

Shootings in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania left six people dead this morning. The same suspect, Bradley Stone, a military veteran from Pennsburg, has been linked to the shootings which took place in Lansdale, Lower Salford, and Souderton. It was believed that the police had the suspect surrounded in a home in Souderton earlier this morning, but […]

Steven Fairlie has been selected by the Advisory Board of the Litigation Counsel of America to become a Fellow in the society. The LCA is a trial lawyer honorary society that limits membership to less than one-half of one percent of all North American judges, lawyers and scholars. Fellowship is highly selective and can only […]

Fairlie & Lippy, P.C. has been nominated to the 2014 Litigator’s Awards, an award given to a select few firms in each state, most of which are much larger firms (and in the case of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia). The award is given to firms based upon actual results in Court, with an emphasis on […]

Breaking News – It has just been announced that Justice Seamus P. McCaffery has retired from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the wake of the scandals involving allegations of distribution of pornographic emails to law enforcement officials and/or attorneys and a large referral fee paid to his wife while he was on the Supreme Court.