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Steven Fairlie taught a continuing legal education course for lawyers today at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Criminal Law Symposium in Harrisburg, Pa.  The Criminal Law Symposium provides a forum for criminal defense lawyers and prosectutors to learn about cutting edge issues and techniques that can help them win cases in Court.  The seminar is attended […]

Steven F. Fairlie has been designated a “SuperLawyer” by Philadelphia Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine for the third consecutive year.  He has been recognized as a SuperLawyer in both Criminal Defense and Personal Injury. The SuperLawyer designation is awarded based upon peer reviews written by other lawyers in the community, third party research by […]

The United States Supreme Court has established a new constitutional remedy—to challenge the results of a plea bargain that was accepted or rejected because of bad legal advice. In a pair of cases from Missouri and Michigan, a divided Supreme Court ruled that when a lawyer representing a criminal defendant acts incompetently when advising whether […]

Pennsylvania has finally established a procedure to pay any Court in the state for fines, costs, and restitution online via one unified website.  As a result, someone whose license has been suspended because of violations ten years ago in four different counties now need only go to one site and resolve it all online.  In […]

Remember that Pennsylvania has a statewide prohibition against texting while driving that takes effect today. The ban prohibits sending, reading, or writing text-based communications from smartphones and other devices while driving. It does not apply to making telephone calls from a handheld cellphone, which will make enforcement difficult. To make a valid stop, a Pennsylvania officer will have to see the […]