Our Attorneys

The New York mesothelioma lawyers of Belluck & Fox, LLP, Joseph W. Belluck and Jordan Fox, help injured people throughout the State of New York recover damages resulting from asbestos exposure, unsafe products, mesothelioma, toxic chemicals, medical malpractice, construction accidents, and serious injuries.

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, contact the New York mesothelioma lawyers of Belluck & Fox, LLP, today. Our NY personal injury attorneys have investigated mesothelioma cases in every county in the state and have assisted mesothelioma sufferers all across the State of New York. Belluck & Fox provides personalized and professional legal representation and can advise you of the legal options available for you and your family.

For more information, call Belluck & Fox, LLP’s New York mesothelioma lawyers toll-free at 1-877-NYLAW09 (695-2909), or use our online contact form.

New York State communities we serve include Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Corning, Elmira, the Finger Lakes region, Jamestown, Long Island, Newburgh, New York, the North Country region, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Schenectady, Syracuse, Utica, Watertown and Westchester County.

Joseph W. Belluck

Joseph W. Belluck, a partner in the law firm of Belluck & Fox, LLP, concentrates his practice in consumer, environmental and defective-product litigation.

Mr. Belluck is a 1994 magna cum laude graduate of the SUNY-Buffalo School of Law. At law school, he served as Articles Editor of the Buffalo Law Review and received the New York State Bar Association’s Legal Ethics Award.

Mr. Belluck previously served as counsel to the New York State Attorney General, representing the State of New York in 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 frequently lectures about product liability, tort law, and tobacco control policy, and is considered an expert on consumer law and tort litigation. Mr. Belluck is an adjunct lecturer of law at Buffalo Law School, where he teaches a course on mass torts.

An experienced civil trial and appellate litigator, Mr. Belluck 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 against the asbestos industry that exceeded $1 million.

Mr. Belluck is active in several bar associations and serves on the Board of Directors of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and listed in New York Magazine’s Best Lawyers in the New York Area and in Super Lawyers. He was appointed by Gov. David A. Patterson to serve on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

After leaving law school, Mr. Belluck served as a judicial law clerk for Justice Lloyd Doggett of the Texas Supreme Court, and later as staff attorney and consumer lobbyist for Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen organization in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Belluck lives in New York City.

Jordan Fox

Jordan Fox, a partner in the law firm of Belluck & Fox, is one of the United States’ most experienced product liability litigators.

For the past 11 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 obtained tens of millions of dollars in claim settlements 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, as 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 defendant 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 that ranged from $800,000 to $14.25 million.

He also secured the first verdict in the nation 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 usually-fatal cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

In addition to trial work, Mr. Fox has successfully prosecuted appeals and expanded 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. He also 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.