Who We Are

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 on asbestos, 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 a highly qualified consumer law and tort litigation attorney. An experienced civil trial and appellate litigator, Mr. Belluck is also an adjunct lecturer of law at Buffalo Law School, where he teaches a course on mass torts.

He has handled numerous major cases involving injuries from asbestos, defective medical products, tobacco and lead paint, including a recent asbestos case that settled for over $12 million.

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.

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.