About Corey
Corey Fahnestock completed his undergraduate research in felony justice at Pennsylvania State University in 2011. He went on to earn a J.D. from Western Michigan University in 2015. While nevertheless in law program he labored as a volunteer scholar lawyer at the State Appellate Defenders Office in Detroit in 2013, gaining early publicity to appellate work and client advocacy that knowledgeable his later practice.
After law school he served as a regulation clerk in 2016 for Handler Henning & Rosenberg in Harrisburg. The following year he joined Marcello & Kivisto in Carlisle as an affiliate in defense personal damage work. In 2018 he moved to The McShane Firm in Harrisburg as a litigation associate. Those roles gave him courtroom experience in addition to time preparing instances from intake thru motion practice and trial preparation.
Fahnestock’s credentialing displays a continuous attention on felony and impaired driving things. He is licensed to practice earlier than the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He finished a 2019 DUIDA seminar offered by PADDDA and attended a course on sentencing guidelines, intermediate punishment and related packages in Pennsylvania. He also took part in Forensic Chromatography XXII: Theory & Practice through the American Chemical Society and received education in DWI detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, a software recognized by the NHTSA. He has held club in the DUI Defense Lawyers Association since 2018 and is listed as a member of PaDDDA at some point of the same duration.
Colleagues note his background spans each personal injury defense and criminal defense, which shapes how he strategies proof and legal strategy. He has worked on cases involving impaired riding and related forensic questions, and his training in chromatographic analysis and field sobriety protocols informs his litigation preparation. He has professional experience in Harrisburg and Carlisle courts, and he brings that courtroom familiarity to his recent work.
He continues to practice at The McShane Firm in Harrisburg, where his work involves legal proceedings and felony defense, including DWI and associated things.
