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Thomas S. Farnish
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Email: Farnish@LarrimoreFarnish.com Practice areas: Personal Injury Litigation; Motor Vehicle Insurance Law; Products Liability; Security/Premises Liability; Nursing Home Care Litigation; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death Litigation Legal career: Admitted to bar in 1981 for Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Admitted to New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, in 1983. Admitted to U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, in 1983. Education: J.D., Temple University, 1981. B.A., Moravian College (summa cum laude), 1978. |
Tom Farnish is an accomplished litigator and instructor of the law in Pennsylvania. He grew up in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, graduating from Moravian College in 1978. He attended Temple University School of Law graduating in 1981. He joined what was then the law firm of Deutsch & Larrimore in 1981. His area of concentration as a lawyer is personal injury civil litigation.
Tom has successfully handled many personal injury claims involving defective products, vehicular accidents, premises liability, and wrongful death. He has earned settlements for his clients in excess of one million dollars in cases involving negligent medical care of infants and car/truck crashes. In the fall of 2007, Tom won a six figure verdict in Atlantic County, New Jersey, against an Atlantic City casino for a patron who was injured when the slot machine she was playing collapsed onto her lap.
Since 1999, Tom has served on the Professional Guidance Committee and the Professional Responsibility Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. The Professional Responsibility Committee reviews the ethical rules which guide the manner in which attorneys must practice in Pennsylvania. The Professional Guidance Committee provides ethical guidance and issues advisory opinions to attorneys with questions involving professional responsibility.
Each year Tom lectures at every law school in Pennsylvania and Delaware (plus Rutgers-Camden Law School in New Jersey) on professional responsibility - the ethical rules which dictate the practice of law. In addition, Tom is a member of the lecturing staff of BAR/BRI Bar Review of Pennsylvania/New Jersey. Each year he lectures law school graduates on Professional Ethics as tested on the Pennsylvania Bar Exam. During the bar review course he also presents lectures on the performance aspects of practicing law. He has lectured in various seminars for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, as part of their Continuing Legal Education programs for educating current lawyers.
Mr. Farnish is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He is an associate of Leyden & Leyden in Hackensack, New Jersey. Tom is an active member of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Associations for Justice.