University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pittsburgh, PA
Meet Attorney Thomas J. Foley III
Tom Foley III is an attorney recognized by peers for excellence in personal injury and wrongful death litigation. He has been featured in numerous leading law industry ratings publications, including Best Lawyers in America and Martindale-Hubbell®.
Mr. Foley practices out of both our personal injury attorney offices in Stroudsburg and Scranton, PA alongside his family members and fellow attorneys, Mr. Kevin P. Foley, Mr. Michael J. Foley, and Mr. Tom Foley Jr..
Education
Juris Doctor (JD)
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
American University
Washington, D.C.
Advanced Training & Continuing Education
Clerkship
Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable James C. Crumlish Jr., of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Law Clerk to Justice Nicholas P. Papadakos of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Awards & Distinctions
Member of the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (2009–Present)
The Pennsylvania Association for Justice, formerly known as the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (PaTLA), is a community of trial lawyers dedicated to preserving a fair and just legal system.
Vice-Chair and Chair of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice's Amicus Curiae Committee (2011–2015)
Members of the Amicus Committee represent the Association in cases of great significance in the appellate courts for the purpose of advocating for the unfettered right to trial by jury.
Pro Bono Counsel for the Pennsylvania Association for Justice
Mr. Foley lends his legal services at no charge to Pennsylvanians most in need of dedicated representation.
Published Legal Author
Mr. Foley’s legal writings have appeared in publications defending Pennsylvanians’ Constitutional right to trial by jury.
Martindale-Hubbell AV-Preeminent Rating
Martindale-Hubbell is a leading organization for the evaluation and ranking of U.S. attorneys. The AV-Preeminent rating is granted only to those attorneys who demonstrate the strongest legal ability and highest ethical standards.
Results
Tom Foley III was the lead attorney for the Foley Law Firm team in a Monroe County wrongful death case which settled in 2017 for over $4 million. The case was filed in the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas, and arose from a catastrophic collision in a highway construction work zone. A construction dump truck negligently pulled out from a median crossover on Interstate 80 in Pocono Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania in front of a private passenger van, causing the van to violently rear-end the dump truck, killing the passenger van’s driver. On behalf of the widow of the van driver, Tom and his firm aggressively and successfully pursued the lawsuit not only against the dump truck driver for bad driving, but against the highway construction company for poor construction traffic management.
Tom also was lead attorney for the Foley Law Firm team’s 2019 case resulting in the 4th highest jury verdict in Pennsylvania in a motor vehicle accident (it was the highest such verdict in Northeastern Pennsylvania in 2019.). That case filed in the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas yielded a jury verdict of over $1 million for a pedestrian seriously injured in a crash by an out of control SUV in a supermarket parking lot in Blakeslee, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. He and the Foley Law Firm team also obtained a separate settlement in that same case, just before jury selection, for over $500,000 for another pedestrian injured in the same accident.
Affiliations
- Monroe County Bar Assocation
- Lackawanna County Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
- Pennsylvania Association for Justice
- Best Lawyers in America
- Martindale-Hubbell
- Super Lawyers®
Specialities and Legal Services
Meet Our Personal Injury Lawyers
Serving Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania
Our Scranton firm's personal injury lawyers have earned consistent recognition from leading media outlets. Our personal injury attorneys are consistently named to U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" and Lawdragon's leading plaintiff law firms in America. The Foley Law Firm is one of the few Pennsylvania firms outside of Philadelphia to have attorneys recognized as Super Lawyers by Philadelphia Magazine.