Joe Burke
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Biography
Prior to joining the Law Offices Of Nelson, Fromer, Crocco & Jordan, Joe spent 25 years working as a career firefighter for the Montclair Fire Department. Joe is a graduate of the Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Joe’s primary focus is on workplace injury, personal injury, and labor law.
Joe specializes in litigation associated with the Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act. If you have developed cancer or contracted a contagious disease that you think is related to your job as a firefighter, police officer, corrections officer, Emergency Medical Technician, or emergency room nurse, you may be entitled to workers compensation benefits.
Practice Areas
- Workers Compensation
- Occupational Diseases
- Line of Duty Injuries
- Hearing Loss
- 9/11 claims
- Vaccine Injuries
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey, 2017
Education
- Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey
- J.D. – 2004
Past Employment
- Montclair Fire Department, Captain, 1996 to 2020
- Montclair FMBA Local #20, President