As part of The Legal’s upcoming Professional Excellence Awards supplement, the three finalists for the Attorney of the Year have been named.

The Attorney of the Year Award is a spinoff of last year’s Arlen Specter Award, which is given out every 10 years to honor the late senator’s legacy and recognize an attorney who had the greatest impact on the law, legal profession or cause of justice in Pennsylvania over the past decade. The inaugural Attorney of the Year Award is being given to an attorney who fits that same criteria, but looking only within the past year.