MYERS LAFFERTY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Attorney
- Support Staff Member
Patrick Finn is an associate attorney at Myers Lafferty Law Offices, P.C. Pat grew up near Reading, Pennsylvania, and won a football scholarship to the College of William and Mary, where he played all four years as an offensive guard. After graduating with his bachelor's degree, Pat worked in Washington for a company that designed and installed security systems for commercial and federal government office buildings, for which he was licensed by the Department of Defense. In 2005, Pat entered law school at Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware, where he earned his JD degree in 2008.
After law school, Pat was recruited by a defense firm in Philadelphia. He quickly realized that he had more empathy for the injured people suing the corporations his firm represented than he had for the company managers. Since 2011, Pat has proudly represented injured railroad employees in their FELA and Whistleblower cases against the railroads. As a personal injury attorney, Pat also represents people injured in motor vehicle accidents, in falls, and by their doctors.
Pat represents clients in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Florida, Ohio and Indiana. He is a member of the Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Founding Partner
- Support Staff Member
- Founding Member of Myers Lafferty Law Offices
Steven Lafferty is a founding member of Myers Lafferty Law Offices. He received his B.S. from Widener University in 1989 and, upon graduation, was by hired by Aramark Corporation in Philadelphia. Mr. Lafferty spent almost two years at Aramark where he handled high profile corporate accounts and managed professional sporting and entertainment events. He then returned to Widener University School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctorate in 1994. While enrolled at Widener, he was awarded an American Jurisprudence Award and was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society.
Mr. Lafferty also served as a judicial clerk for both the Honorable Edward J. Bradley, former President Judge of the Philadelphia Court Common Pleas, and the Honorable Charles P. Mirarchi, Jr. of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
After receiving his law degree, Mr. Lafferty immediately went to work representing injured railroad workers and their families. During his legal career, he has been associated with two other established FELA firms, and as a FELA attorney, he has won a number of substantial verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients. He has represented all crafts of railroad workers in state and federal courts throughout the Northeastern United States, and has assisted union leaders in negotiating collective bargaining agreements.
Mr. Lafferty's practice also includes the representation of workers injured in maritime and other industrial accidents. He has obtained successful verdicts and settlements litigating cases against major corporations, maritime and insurance companies.
Mr. Lafferty is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. He is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, and the Bar Associations of both New York and Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Founding Partner
- Support Staff Member
Bill Myers is a founding shareholder of Myers Lafferty Law Offices, P.C. Born into a proud working class family, Bill received his bachelor's degree at Clarion University, a small college in Western Pennsylvania, helping to pay for tuition by working construction jobs over the summer.
After graduating from Clarion summa cum laude, Bill was accepted at the University of Pennsylvania, one of America's pre-eminent Ivy League law schools. In 1983, Bill began his legal career at one of the largest law firms in Philadelphia, where he worked with the top attorneys in the city and cut his teeth as a trial attorney. After seven years, Bill moved to a smaller litigation firm. He wanted to hone his trial skills, and he wanted to represent human beings rather than corporations.
Experience
For the past twenty-five years, Bill has devoted his career to fighting for hard-working men and women injured by the negligence of others. He has won verdicts and settlements of tens of millions of dollars on behalf people seriously injured in railroad accidents, automobile accidents and from medical malpractice and dangerous products. An accomplished railroad attorney, Bill has successfully squared off against many of the largest freight and commuter railroads in the country, including CSX, Norfolk Southern, Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, Metro-North, Canadian Pacific and SEPTA. He has also taken on some of the most powerful corporations and insurance companies, including General Motors, Goodyear, Nationwide, State Farm, GEICO and Allstate.