Falk, Nile K.

Steven F. Fairlie has been named one of Pennsylvania's "Rising Stars" as published in Philadelphia Magazine in 2005, 2006 and 2007. He is also one of just a handful of attorneys with offices in the Philadelphia Suburbs to be named a "Lawyer on the Fast Track" by The Legal Intelligencer in 2006.

He has successfully handled numerous civil (slip and fall, auto accidents, land development litigation, etc.) and criminal trials (narcotics, DUI, capital murder, robbery, rape, etc.). Prior to private practice, he worked on the Narcotics Team and the Major Crimes Team of the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office from 1996 to 2000. He successfully argued for the death penalty in 1999 and was lead prosecutor in a case involving $55 million of cocaine. Subsequently, as a defense attorney, he took the appeal of a client sentenced to death and convinced the prosecutor to vacate the death sentence. He used forensic tire print evidence to prove another client not guilty of attempted murder. In yet another case he uncovered evidence which reduced the offer on a robbery case from 25–50 years down to 2 years probation. He represented one individual charged with 3 separate charges of DUI and had the first case dismissed at the Preliminary Hearing, the second accepted into the A.R.D. program, and the third case dismissed after a trial judge granted suppression of all evidence in the case. Mr. Fairlie has obtained not-guilty verdicts in major jury trials involving shootings, burglaries, etc. despite positive eyewitness identifications of his clients. On appeal, he has successfully argued for reversal of a death sentence in one case and a sentence of 70 years in another case.

In 2007, Mr. Fairlie went to trial on a case involving more than $50 million of land transactions and settled the case in the second week of trial. He has obtained six-figure settlements in numerous personal injury cases.

Mr. Fairlie often serves as a speaker for various organizations such as the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Annual (2007–2009) Criminal Law Symposium in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He also teaches numerous other continuing legal education seminars for lawyers every year.

He earned his B.A. in Government and Law from Lafayette College in 1991 and his J.D. from The Dickinson School of Law in 1995 where he was a member of the Appellate Moot Court Board, the Environmental Law Journal, and a Chairman of the Student Bar Association. He has been Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Montgomery County Bar Association's Criminal Defense Committee since 2001, a member of the Montgomery County Bar Association's Trial Lawyers' Section, a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Professionalism Committee and Civil Litigation Section, a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Hotline Panel of Experts Committee, and an Associate Member of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Mr. Fairlie's areas of practice include civil litigation, personal injury, criminal law and construction litigation.

Mr. Fairlie enjoys scuba-diving, hunting, fishing and coaching youth sports.