Our Attorneys
Firm Background
The Buffalo, NY, mesothelioma attorneys of Belluck & Fox, LLP, Joseph W. Belluck and Jordan Fox, help injured people in Buffalo and throughout 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 in the Buffalo area has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, contact the asbestos injury lawyers of Belluck & Fox, LLP, today. Our Buffalo, NY, mesothelioma attorneys handle asbestos disease cases in every county in New York State, including Buffalo and the surrounding communities. Our Buffalo, NY, mesothelioma attorneys provide personalized and professional legal representation, and we can advise you of the legal options available for you and your family.
For more information, use our online contact form or call Belluck & Fox, LLP’s mesothelioma lawyers toll-free at 1-877-NYLAW09.
Partners at Belluck & Fox, LLP
Joseph W. Belluck, a partner in the law firm of Belluck & Fox, LLP, focuses in consumer, environmental and defective product litigation.
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.
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. Belluck is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in New York Magazine’s Best Lawyers in the New York Area and in Super Lawyers. He was appointed by New York Governor David A. Patterson to serve on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct. Belluck serves as an adjunct lecturer of law at the SUNY-Buffalo School of Law.
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
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 victim’s 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.
