Firm Background
The attorneys of Belluck & Fox, LLP, Joseph W. Belluck and Jordan Fox, help
injured people recover damages resulting from asbestos, unsafe products,
mesothelioma, toxic chemicals, medical malpractice, construction accidents, and
serious injuries. Please review our backgrounds and learn more about the results
we have obtained on behalf of our clients.
Partners
Joseph W. Belluck, a partner in the law firm of Belluck & Fox, LLP, focuses
in consumer, environmental and defective product litigation.
Mr. Belluck previously served as counsel to the New York State Attorney General,
representing the State of New York in its litigation against the tobacco
industry. Mr. Belluck was instrumental in settling New York State's tobacco
lawsuit for $25 billion. Mr. Belluck also served as Director of Attorney
Services for Trial Lawyers Care, an organization dedicated to providing free
legal assistance to victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Mr. Belluck has lectured frequently on product liability, tort law, and tobacco
control policy, and is considered an expert on consumer law and tort litigation.
An experienced civil trial and appellate litigator, Mr. Belluck is an adjunct
lecturer of law at Buffalo Law School, where he teaches a course on mass torts.
He has handled several major cases involving injuries from asbestos, defective
medical products, tobacco and lead paint, and has tried several cases to
verdict, including a verdict in excess of $1 million dollars against the
asbestos industry.
Mr. Belluck is an active member of several bar associations and serves on the
Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. He also
serves on the Board of Directors of the SLAPP Resource Center, an organization
dedicated to protecting the right to free speech.
Mr. Belluck graduated magna cum laude from the SUNY-Buffalo School of Law in
1994. During law school, he served as Articles Editor of the Buffalo Law Review
and received the New York State Bar Association's Legal Ethics Award.
After law school, Mr. Belluck served as a judicial law clerk for Justice Lloyd
Doggett of the Texas Supreme Court, and then as staff attorney and consumer
lobbyist for Ralph Nader's Public Citizen organization in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Belluck resides in New York City.
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Jordan Fox, a partner in the law firm of Belluck
& Fox, is one of the nation's most experienced product liability litigators.
For the past eleven years, Mr. Fox has represented and counseled victims of
asbestos exposure, lead paint exposure and other environmental injuries. Mr. Fox
has prosecuted thousands of asbestos cases. He has settled tens of millions of
dollars in claims, and on two occasions, his verdicts were featured as The
National Law Journal's Largest Verdicts of the Year.
The first such verdict was received on behalf of the citizens of Baltimore,
Maryland to recover damages against the asbestos industry. Mr. Fox's work
resulted in two separate jury awards of $23 million and $12 million -- including
punitive damages against the asbestos companies.
The second verdict was featured in the National Law Journal as the year's
largest asbestos verdict nationwide. In that case, Mr. Fox obtained a verdict of
$18.2 million on behalf of five individuals who died from mesothelioma.
Mr. Fox has tried several other asbestos cases, resulting in jury verdicts
ranging from $800,000 to $14.25 million.
He also secured the first verdict nationwide against a retail store in an
asbestos cancer case, when a jury in upstate New York found Sears Roebuck
responsible for asbestos products sold under the Sears name. Sears was held
liable for $1.5 million for causing Mesothelioma -- a fatal asbestos cancer.
In addition to trial work, Mr. Fox has successfully prosecuted appeals,
expanding the rights of victims of defective products to obtain evidence from
corporations.
Mr. Fox is a former homicide and sex crimes/special victims prosecutor in the
Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. Mr. Fox previously served on the New York
City Mayor's Criminal Justice Advisory Council.
Mr. Fox is a frequent lecturer at national conferences on asbestos and injury
law. He is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the New York
State Trial Lawyers Association and the National Crime Victim Bar Association.
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