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Jay M. Leffler

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Jay M. Leffler

As a partner in Zarwin Baum’s personal injury practice, Jay M. Leffler focuses his practice on motor vehicle, premises liability and professional liability matters. He has practiced personal injury for 25 years and his practice covers Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. Jay has extensive trial experience in both the Federal and State Courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Jay graduated from Rutgers University Law School in 1988 and completed his undergraduate work at Temple University, graduating cum laude with a degree in Political Science. He began his career as a law clerk for the Honorable Paul Ribner in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Representative Matters

Personal Injury

Recovered $1.5 Million by settlement at mediation for a 29-year-old woman who was a backseat passenger in a serious car accident. The defendant made a sudden and illegal left-hand turn into the path of  the plaintiff’s vehicle, causing a violent collision, spinning the defendant’s car 360 degrees and rolling it over. Both vehicles were disabled at the scene and the plaintiff was transferred to the hospital by ambulance. The plaintiff suffered a displaced fracture to her arm as well as significant nerve damage that required multiple surgeries.

Personal Injury

Prevailed in an effort made by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to dismiss an action brought by a man whose leg was severed when the car he was in crashed into a guardrail.
Credentials
Court Admissions

New Jersey Supreme Court

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Memberships

Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association

Education

Rutgers University Law School

Temple University, B.A., cum laude