PHILADELPHIA: Attorney Jeffrey B. Datz, of Philadelphia firm Weitz Garfinkle Datz, LLC, has been recognized as a 2010 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star by Law & Politics magazine and Philadelphia Magazine.

Each year, Super Lawyers magazine publishes a list of the region’s most outstanding attorneys in more than 70 practice areas. The annual list, which identifies the top 5 percent of Pennsylvania’s attorneys, has been recognized for almost two decades as a reliable resource for attorneys and consumers seeking legal counsel. The selection process includes peer nominations and evaluations, particularly within a candidate’s own practice area, particularly within a candidate’s own practice area.

Super Lawyers magazine launched the Rising Star award in 1998 to recognize Pennsylvania’s outstanding up-and-coming attorneys – those who are 40 years old or younger or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. No more than 2.5 percent of practicing attorneys are named Rising Stars annually.

Mr. Datz, a first-time Super Lawyer Rising Star, defends victims of injury and negligence. His practice is concentrated in the areas of medical malpractice, premises liability, personal and automobile injuries and healthcare liability.

Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Weitz Garfinkle Datz, LLC, provides strategic and legal counsel nationally to those with cases as a result of catastrophic injury, construction site and workplace injuries, consumer claims and business torts, insurance bad faith, premises liability, commercial litigation and healthcare litigation.

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