Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, known locally as E-Town, is home to the historic Star Barn and Elizabethtown College. A borough of about 12,000 people, Elizabethtown is a great place to live and raise a family.
If you need help with a legal issue here in E-Town, Attorneys Jonathan Chieppor and Alex Egner can help. As longtime residents of Lancaster County, we take pride in helping the people of Elizabethtown with criminal defense, DUI, estate planning, business law, civil lawsuits, personal injury cases, and family law.
Pennsylvania’s culture of hunting and responsible firearm use is important to us. We help people who have lost their right to own firearms and who want to get that right restored, and we help people who have run into trouble with Pennsylvania Game and Wildlife regulations.
At Chieppor & Egner, LLC, justice is not just a principle. It’s our purpose as a law firm. If you need help with anything from a criminal charge to a personal injury claim, we will make it our mission to win justice for you. Contact Chieppor & Egner, LLC, today.
If you’re facing criminal charges in Elizabethtown or anywhere in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, you need a law firm dedicated to fighting for your rights. Former prosecutors founded our law firm, so we know how the other side will prepare its case and what strategies they will likely use. By thoroughly investigating the facts about the charges against you, we can find weaknesses in the prosecutor’s case that may result in charges being reduced or dismissed.
We handle all kinds of criminal charges, including:
Auto theft
Disorderly conduct
Domestic violence
Drug charges
Pennsylvania Game and Wildlife violations
Possession
Restoration of firearm rights
Probation and parole violations
Retail theft
Theft
Underage drinking
Welfare fraud
If you’ve had your firearm rights taken away because of a past criminal conviction or for any other reason, we can help you regain your constitutional rights. Contact us, and we will let you know whether you are eligible to have your rights restored under Pennsylvania law and what you would need to do to make that happen.
Another criminal charge we often handle is Driving Under the Influence. If you’ve been charged with DUI in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, we can help you fight the charges and get the best results possible in your case.
We will check whether the police had a good reason to pull you over, whether they conducted field sobriety tests correctly, and whether there were any issues with the blood or breathalyzer tests. If we find any sign that your traffic stop or your sobriety test was not conducted correctly, we will push for your charges to be dismissed or reduced.
If this is your first DUI offense, we may be able to get you into the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program for first-time offenders, resulting in the dismissal of all charges against you. Don’t just accept the negative effects a DUI conviction will have on your life. An experienced DUI defense lawyer will do all they can to protect your future.
Do you want to have any voice in what happens to your estate after you are gone? Most people do, and the best way to do that is to create an effective estate plan with the help of an attorney. An experienced estate planning attorney can help you:
Dispose of your property
Distribute your assets
Take care of your loved ones
Create a will
Prepare a power of attorney documents to ensure that if you become incapacitated, your wishes for healthcare and your finances will be taken care of as you wish
Prepare a living will so that your family members understand your last wishes
Ensure that your wishes are met after you are gone
If you’re starting your own business in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, we can help. Chieppor & Egner, LLC, can help you with issues such as:
Determining what type of business entity you want to start
Drafting contracts for your interactions with suppliers and employees
Avoiding tax issues and ensuring compliance
Resolving employment issues
Avoiding premises liability issues
Litigating against another company or a government agency
Attorney Alex Egner also has experience with nonprofit organizations that operate bingo games and other games of chance. We can help you ensure that your nonprofit organization is compliant with state law regarding these types of games.
Civil lawsuits in Pennsylvania can include all kinds of different issues, such as:
Contract disputes
Workplace disputes
Family disputes
Consumer complaints
Tort claims
Lien disputes
Landlord and tenant disputes
Whatever type of civil lawsuit you’re involved in, Chieppor & Egner, LLC, can help. We help both landlords and tenants to understand their rights and responsibilities under the law. We help employers and employees understand their rights and their legal obligations, often resolving a dispute without the need to go to court. If your case does need to go to trial, we will fight for your rights with all our determination and our experience of the law.
A personal injury claim arises when one person hurts another person through negligence or misconduct. For instance, a reckless driver may cause injuries by speeding and getting in a motor vehicle crash, or a business owner may cause injuries by failing to clean up a slippery spill on a walkway.
Whatever the type of accident, you have the right to compensation if someone else caused your injuries. In Pennsylvania, you can pursue compensation for medical expenses, lost income such as wages or other earnings, emotional distress, pain and suffering, and lost enjoyment of life.
Personal injury cases we handle in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, include:
Motor vehicle accidents
Slip and fall and other premises liability cases
Dog bite cases
Don’t let a reckless driver or a careless business owner get away with hurting you by failing to take reasonable care. An Elizabethtown personal injury lawyer can help you pursue fair compensation for what you have suffered.
Many people associate family law with divorce, but family law involves a wide range of issues, including:
Protection from abuse orders
Custody disputes
Division of property
Mutual consent divorce
One-year separation divorce
Divorce based on grounds such as adultery or abandonment
Some issues of family law also involve other areas of the law. For instance, if you are prohibited from contacting someone under a protection from abuse order, you can be charged with a crime if you do attempt to contact them. Whether you are seeking a protection from abuse order or the subject of one, our attorneys can help.
Whether you live in Masonic Village or near the Elizabethtown College campus, the best way to resolve any legal issue is to hire a trusted Lancaster County law firm. We can help you with legal matters ranging from a DUI charge to a divorce to a personal injury lawsuit.
Founding attorneys Jonathan Chieppor and Alex Egner are Lancaster County residents who understand this community and have spent a lot of time in the courthouses here. We believe in this community and are proud to fight for the rights of the people who live here. If you have a legal issue in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, contact Chieppor & Egner, LLC, today.
