Liam Duffy is a dynamic, high-motor trial lawyer with significant experience in complex, high-stakes injury and wrongful death cases. In the last several years alone, he has obtained over $110 million in jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of clients.
Liam’s practice focuses on representing people who have suffered catastrophic injuries—or families who have lost a loved one—because of negligent conduct. He has handled a variety of cases involving issues of workplace safety, products liability, tractor-trailer collisions, power line safety, dram shop liability, and more. And he has faced off in courtrooms against some of the world’s largest corporations including electrical utility companies, consumer and automotive product manufacturers, trucking companies, road construction contractors, and retail and hospitality enterprises.
Some of Liam’s recent results include:
- $21 million verdict against Dominion Energy for the wrongful death of a landscaper who was electrocuted by an overhead powerline while trimming palm trees.
- $16 million against Cadence Education, one of the nation’s largest daycare chains, for the wrongful death of an infant as a result of violations of safe sleep protocols.
- $15.75 million against multiple defendants, including Sunbelt Rentals, for an injured worker in Louisiana who suffered a spinal cord injury as a result of a defective scaffold and unsafe worksite.
- $9.75 million against a regional distributor for a global beer brand, its employee, and a dram shop defendant for injuries caused by the distributor’s employee while drunk driving.
Today’s world is technology-driven, and Liam’s practice is no different. He has a creative and forward-thinking approach to his cases and has spent hundreds of hours working to master and incorporate the latest, cutting-edge trial and case management technologies to better communicate with juries and advance his clients’ interests in the courtroom.
Because of his experience and commitment to his craft, Liam is regularly sought out as a speaker on litigation and trial strategy. He has presented at numerous seminars hosted by organizations including the South Carolina Bar, the South Carolina Association for Justice, the Injured Workers Advocates, the Kentucky Justice Association, the Louisiana Association for Justice, and the Attorneys Information Exchange Group. He has published numerous articles in AAJ’s Trial Magazine and SCAJ’s Justice Bulletin, and is the primary author of the leading treatise, Dealing with Objections to Written Discovery: The Modern Approach to Discovery Objections in SC State and Federal Courts. Year after year, Liam has been recognized by Super Lawyers as one of South Carolina’s “Rising Stars.”
Liam is also active in legal and community organizations. He is a member of the Attorneys Information Exchange Group (AIEG), the American Association for Justice (AAJ), and serves as the Legal Tech Chair and member of the Board of Governors for the South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ). Liam’s professional leadership and community involvement recently earned him recognition as the South Carolina Bar’s 2023 Young Lawyer of the Year.
Contact
Liam
Charleston, SC 29401
T (843) 972-0150 F (843) 277-6691
[email protected]Charleston School of Law, summa cum laude
College of Charleston
South Carolina Bar
Attorneys Information Exchange Group
American Association for Justice
South Carolina Association for Justice
The seminar was devoted to sharing and collaborating on strategies for discovery, depositions, and trial and included a star-studded lineup of trial lawyers recruited by Duffy from across South Carolina and the country.
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This recognition comes on the heels of Liam’s central role in the firm’s record-setting, $21 million-dollar jury verdict last year in a powerline electrocution and wrongful death case.
The organization’s motto, “Advocates for Fairness Under the Law,” illustrates the simple mission of trial lawyers serving those who they have sworn to protect.
Five of our seven attorneys have been named as 2020 Super Lawyers Honorees or Rising Star Honorees, and our founding partner, David Yarborough, has been selected to the Top 10 in Charleston and Top 25 in South Carolina.
His talk provided attendees with practical tips for spotting these kinds of cases, working them up aggressively to improve results, and ultimately trying them to a jury.
His talk focused on trial advocacy, motions practice and presenting persuasive arguments to a judge and jury.
Yarborough Applegate attorney Liam Duffy continues his thought leadership amongst trial lawyers in his latest published article, “The Golden Rule in Opening Statement and Closing Argument: What It Is and What It Isn’t.”
Duffy revisited several third-party injury and death cases in which he and the Yarborough Applegate team have sought and obtained significant recovery outside of the workers compensation system.
Listen to how they obtained the largest jury verdict in Colleton County history for the wrongful death of 41-year-old landscaper Jose Larios.
His talk, “Third-Party Premises Liability in Workplace Injuries & Deaths,” addressed handling premises and products liability in workplace injury settings.
Duffy’s presentation detailed the ways workers compensation attorneys can push to obtain full justice for their clients by identifying workplace injury cases that involve the negligence of a third-party.
Duffy’s presentation covered our team’s strategic approaches that proved to be difference-makers in a recent workplace injury case.
Duffy drew on his professional experience as he detailed best practices on working with experts, including how to select the right experts and maximize their involvement, from early case investigation all the way through trial.
Confidentiality in court proceedings can have harmful consequences. In some instances, it can be deadly. Yarborough Applegate attorney Liam Duffy tackles this topic in the latest SCAJ Justice Bulletin magazine.
In the latest issue of Trial Magazine, Yarborough Applegate’s own David Yarborough, David Lail, and Liam Duffy detail ways our team has hit the ground running and mined for evidence while working up dram shop cases.
