Phillip J. Duffy

Practices

• Product, Tort & Insurance Litigation

Biography

Phil is a litigator at the firm, representing clients in a broad range of litigation matters. He has been included on lists published by Best Lawyers® in the area of Product Liability Defense, and New Jersey Super Lawyers in the areas of Business Litigation and Medical Malpractice Defense Litigation. Although based in the firm’s Newark, NJ, office, Phil also regularly represents clients in New York and Pennsylvania, where he is also admitted to practice, and in many other jurisdictions where he has been admitted pro hac vice.

For 30 years, Phil has defended a wide range of traditional materials and equipment manufacturers and drug product manufacturers in personal injury, wrongful death, and property damage cases alleging design and manufacturing defects and failure to warn, including, but not limited to, cases arising out of accidents and exposure to asbestos-containing products. He has also defended clinical laboratories, healthcare providers and institutions and represented physicians and healthcare professionals in negligence, wrongful birth and wrongful death litigation arising out of gynecologic, skin, breast and other cancers, genetic birth defects, chromosomal abnormalities, and blood disorders. Phil has lectured on medico-legal risk management issues, including cytopathology, prenatal genetics, BRCA testing and general women’s health. He has also represented an array of private and public entities in a variety of business litigation matters, including breach of contract and other commercial disputes, defamation and other media law matters, and land use cases involving zoning and condemnation.