Joseph W. Belluck

Joseph W. Belluck is the founding partner of Belluck & Fox, LLP. He has been widely recognized for his legal work, high ethical standards, and public service. Joe has a national reputation for excellence in asbestos, mesothelioma, truck accident and serious injury litigation.

He is a dedicated, compassionate attorney who has spent his entire life and legal career advocating for injured consumers and workers. He has settled over $1 Billion of asbestos and personal injury lawsuits.

Prior to founding Belluck & Fox in 2002, Joe represented the State of New York in its tobacco litigation and was responsible for forcing the tobacco industry to stop sponsoring fake scientific research and to take down their tobacco billboards in New York State. He started representing asbestos victims across the United States in 1999.

He previously served as a judicial law clerk of the Texas Supreme Court, and as a staff attorney and lobbyist for the consumer group Public Citizen in Washington, D.C. In 2001, moved by trying to help the families of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack, Joe spent six months at Trial Lawyers Care, a volunteer legal organization.

Joe is also a dedicated public servant. In 2008, he was appointed to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which investigates allegations of misconduct against all state and local judges in New York. He was elected Chair of the Commission in 2017.

He was appointed as a State University of New York Trustee in 2010. The SUNY Board of Trustees oversees the entire SUNY system in New York. A professorship at his alma mater, SUNY Buffalo Law School, is named after Joe and his wife: the Joseph W. Belluck and Laura L. Aswad Professor of Civil Justice.

In 2017, Joe was asked to be on the advisory committee of the New York State Rockefeller Institute Center for Law and Policy Solutions. He also serves as a member of New York’s Medicaid Redesign Team.