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Tom Duffy will serve as a panelist for the “Stars of the Bar” CLE event hosted by the Pennsylvania Association for Justice.

With a legal staff of 13 and a corps of 400 volunteer lawyers, paralegals and law students, HAP engages in direct outreach to homeless individuals in need of legal aid, providing services worth $50.5 million to over 35,300 clients since its founding.

Duffy + Partners was listed in in a recent issue of The Philadelphia Business Journal for having one of the Largest Legal Judgments of 2013.

A five-week motor vehicle accident trial resulting in a $15.7 million verdict against a Toyota dealer was one of Pennsylvania's largest verdicts of 2013, according to the PaLaw Annual Report on the Legal Profession.

The firm received this designation for three practice areas, most notably Personal Injury Litigation on behalf of Plaintiffs.

The Best Lawyers list is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys cast nearly five million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

This article originally appeared in a special "Litigation: Medical Malpractice" supplement of The Legal Intelligencer on Tuesday, March 26, 2013.

The jury also awarded $4.3 million to five other plaintiffs in the case for a total finding of $15.7 million in liability against Central City Toyota, which maintained the car in which the doctor was injured.

The firm received a "Tier 1" ranking, which was the result of "a combination of clients' impressive feedback [and] the high regard that lawyers in other firms in the same practice area have" for the firm.