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JEROME H. BLOCK
Jerome ("Jerry") Block is a partner at Levy Phillips & Konigsberg's New York City office. Since joining LPK in 2001, Jerry has taken a lead role in litigating mass tort cases. He has won numerous multi-million dollar jury verdicts.
As co-trial counsel with Robert I. Komitor in July 2002, Jerry won a jury verdict of $19.25 million against manufacturers of dangerous asbestos products. In July, 2003, Jerry served as lead trial counsel against manufacturers of asbestos-containing welding rods.
The jury's verdict, the first in the nation to be leveled against the manufacturers of defective welding rods, totaled $6.65 million. In August, 2004, a jury awarded two of Jerry's clients coping with mesothelioma a total of $22 million. This was the largest compensatory verdict in the nation for an asbestos case tried in 2004, and one of the top verdicts in New York that year. In December 2007, Jerry served as lead counsel in two mesothelioma cases in which the jury awarded a total of $9 million; these two landmark cases were the first asbestos verdicts in New York arising from the use of commerical cable, valves and steam traps.
A highly regarded lecturer, Jerry has been invited to many national conferences where he has given presentations on topics such as Jury Trial Tactics and Asbestos Litigation. Jerry served on the national faculty of Emory School of Law's Trial Techniques Program in May 2007.
In addition to his experience in asbestos litigation, Jerry is an authority on tobacco litigation having served as lead trial counsel in the first tobacco case tried in New York County (Manhattan).
Jerry has been included in the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 editions of Best Lawyers in America, in the area of Mass Torts.
Prior to joining LPK in 2001, Jerry worked at an international law firm where he gained valuable experience representing large corporate defendants in complex, multi-party lawsuits.
A graduate of Emory Law School, Jerry served as the "Notes and Comments" editor of the Emory Law Journal. While at Emory, he received several awards and honors, and was inducted into The Order of the Coif. After completing his law degree, Jerry worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Jean C. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Jerry now lives in Brooklyn with his wife Michelle L. Freedman, a clinical psychologist, and their sons, Charlie and Simon.
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