John
M. Blume
Telephone - (973) 635-5400
Fax - (973) 635-9339
Click here to email John.
Designated
as a Super Lawyer
(top 100 in 2008)
in the fields of personal injury & medical malpractice.
Click
here to read about significant verdicts won by John.
For
more information (Curriculum Vitae), click
here.
John Blume is a New Jersey Supreme Court Certified
Civil Trial Attorney.
According to the National Law Journal, "John M.
Blume is the attorney named by most other prominent New Jersey
litigators as a leading trial attorney."
Mr.
Blume along with fellow Blume Goldfaden principal attorneys Carol
L. Forte and Dennis M. Donnelly, was recognized in the May 8,
2000 National Law Journal under the title "Jersey
Giants," an article citing twelve litigators from the State
of New Jersey. This article, recognizing Mr. Blume's superior
trial work, notes that he has won multiple verdicts and obtained
dozens of settlements of $1 million or more.
After
practicing commercial law with his father Charles for several
years, John Blume began handling personal injury and wrongful
death cases exclusively in 1963. A graduate of Rutgers University
School of Law (J.D. 1956), Mr. Blume is recognized as an outstanding
trial attorney, with a record of jury verdicts and settlements
that includes $10.5 million in a wrongful death case, which
at that time, was the largest ever obtained in New Jersey.
He
is a leader in the legal profession, having served as President
of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates
for four years, and a member of its National Board of Directors
for eight years.
He
was recognized by the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey with its Trial
Award in 1990 and the Essex County Bar Association "Civil
Trial Attorney Achievement Award" in 1991. He was honored
with election as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
John Blume has been recognized as one of "New Jersey's
Top 100 Lawyers" by Rutgers School of Law; he lectures
extensively to trial lawyers groups, and, was one of the first
New Jersey Masters in the Inns of Court Program, which is a mentor
program for younger lawyers.
The
New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed several of his significant case
decisions which established new case law. For example, in Black
v. Public Service, Blume argued, and the Court affirmed,
that power companies were responsible for injuries sustained by
people who came in contact with overhead power lines.
In
the case of Crispin v. Volkswagen, Blume developed a
law permitting injured persons to recover damages from motor vehicle
manufactures with design defects in their vehicles. The case of
Alfone v. Sarno, which was Blume's first medical malpractice
matter, reached the New Jersey Supreme Court and created a new
cause of action for New Jersey litigants.
Under
Mr. Blume's leadership, Blume, Goldfaden, Berkowitz, Donnelly,
Fried & Forte has become one of the best known and most successful
personal injury law firms in New Jersey, with more verdicts and
settlements of over one million dollars than any other firm in
the State.
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