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John A. Burke

John A. Burke

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Attorney Bio

John Burke is an Associate at Blume Forte. His practice focuses on automobile accidents, premises liability, and general negligence matters.

Prior to joining the firm, John served as an Assistant Prosecutor for the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. During his tenure at the Prosecutor’s Office, he served in the Pre-Trial and Trial Units. He was ultimately promoted to Assistant Chief Prosecutor for the Hudson County Regional Collision Investigation Unit, where he investigated and prosecuted high profile motor vehicle collisions resulting in felony charges. John has tried multiple cases to verdict, including two homicides.

John earned his undergraduate degree in Government and Law from Lafayette College before attending Rutgers Law School, where he was a cum laude graduate, and a member of both the Rutgers University Law Review and the Moot Court Board. During his third year of law school, John clerked for Blume Forte. Upon graduation, John served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Carmen Messano, Presiding Judge for Administration, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division.

Practice Areas

Automobile Accidents
Premises Liability
General Negligence Matters

Admissions

New Jersey, 2017

Education

Lafayette College, B.A. 2014
Rutgers University Law School, J.D., 2017, Cum Laude

Associations & Memberships

Hudson County Bar Association, Trustee
New Jersey State Bar Association

$46.7M
Toxic Exposure
The plaintiff, a 48 year-old mechanic, was exposed to chemicals on a forklift while working at the premises of the defendant Troy Chemical Corporation. The defendant did not warn of the dangers of exposure to such chemicals, and did not have a policy at the time of cleaning all forklifts before they left the plant. Within a short time of the exposure, the plaintiff developed gastrointestinal and heart problems, peripheral neuropathy into the hands and feet, serious rashes, concentration and memory deficits, and weakness and fatigue.
$25M
Premises Liability
The firm represented Daniel Schleifman, 42, and his wife, Maria Gonzalez, in their lawsuit against the Parrot Cay hotel at which they were planning to stay during their Caribbean vacation in the Turks & Caicos islands. But in calm waters on a clear night in March 2000, the resort's boat taxi crashed into a rocky outcropping, throwing Schleifman into a metal ladder and breaking his back, permanently paralyzing him from the waist down. No one else was injured.
$14.5M
Chiropractic Malpractice
A patient had complained of neck pain and without ordering any tests or imaging studies, the physician concluded that there was a neck sprain and told him to see the group's chiropractor for treatment. The patient was injured during neck manipulation and became a quadriplegic. It turned out that the patient actually had a bulging cervical disc, that was caused to herniate and compress the spinal cord during the manipulation.
$10.5M
Motor Vehicle Accident
In 1992, the victims, a dentist and his wife, were driving through a small town on the New Jersey Shore on their way to dinner at a local restaurant. The streets were poorly marked and the couple inadvertently drove off an unmarked and unguarded boat launching ramp at the end of a street. Witnesses on the shore could hear the couple trying to escape from their sinking car, but the doors and windows could not be opened.

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