Pennsylvania Farm Law Lindsay Law Firm

Senior Partner & Founder Alexander H. Lindsay

Much of Al's experience as a private attorney has been in the field of criminal defense and civil litigation, in both Federal and State Courts. He was involved in the defense of numerous high profile criminal cases, the most prominent of which was the defense of a Brentwood Police Officer, John Vojtas, who was originally charged with murder, as a result of the death of Johnny Gammage on October 12, 1995. In that case, through expert testimony, the defense refuted the proposition that Mr. Gammage died as a result of any conduct on the part of Officer Vojtas and successfully refuted the idea that Mr. Vojtas committed any misconduct. After a highly publicized jury trial, the Defendant, John Vojtas, was acquitted of all charges. Al also defended the Rev. Richard Rossi on charges of attempting to murder his wife. The trial ended with a hung jury.

Al has also been involved in numerous civil trials, including the case of Charles Wilken, Ruth Wilken and Janice Wilken vs. the Butler Motor Transit Company in which a Butler County jury returned a verdict for the Plaintiffs in the amount of $1,139,661, which was one of the largest verdicts ever paid in Butler County.

Al has received a number of awards in the course of his career, including a Special Achievement Award from Attorney General Griffin B. Bell, on March 6, 1978 and a Commendation from William Webster, Director of the F. B. I. He also served as the President of the Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association in 1998, and on March 13, 1999, Al was admitted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

In addition to trying cases, Al has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, teaching Trial Advocacy since 1992. He appeared numerous times as an instructor at the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute for Criminal Trial Advocacy at the United States Department of Justice in Washington D.C. He also conducted numerous seminars on criminal procedure for State and Local police, and he was an instructor in Criminal Law and Procedure at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Butler County Community College. Al served on the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee at the request of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for six years.

Why Al Lindsay is THE Experienced
Pennsylvania Farm Law Lawyer

The Lindsay Law Firm provides its agricultural clients with a unique blend of substantial trial experience combined with the down to earth experience of actual farming.

The firm's senior attorney, Al Lindsay, has been trying jury trials for 40 years and is one of the most experienced and successful lawyers in Western Pennsylvania. His trial experience extends through Western and Central Pennsylvania in both State and Federal courts. Al was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1999. In 2010, he was named one of Pennsylvania’s “super lawyers” by Super Lawyers magazine. Al is also an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, teaching Trial Advocacy to future trial lawyers.

It is in the field of farming that Al Lindsay's experience is really significant. Al was raised on a farm in Western Pennsylvania and, as he put it, “I’ve milked cows, thrown hay bales, mowed, raked and baled hay. I’ve plowed and farrowed fields and have been active in all phases of a general farming.”

Al is a lawyer who understands what it means to have dairy cows come down with mastitis. He understands what it means to have a rainy spell during the fall planting season. He has worked cases with hogs and chickens. He has fought crop insurance companies, milking machine companies, suppliers of feed, suppliers of herbicides and pesticides and purveyors of diseased livestock.

As Al Lindsay puts it, “My farm experience helps me speak the language of farming. This gives me a tremendous advantage over opposing lawyers who, more often than not, are fellas raised in a town who don’t understand what a farmer is talking about when he says that a cow ‘freshens’ or that a ‘calf has scours'. I am speaking the same language that the farmers in the case and the expert witnesses are speaking. Opposing lawyers don’t understand the language and never really catch up.

“Besides”, Al says, “I really like representing farmers. They are good people. Their problems are real. Our firm can help them, and we are the right people to help them.”