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About Thomas Vesper

Thomas J. Vesper is a trial lawyer at Westmoreland Vesper Quattrone and Beers concentrating in serious personal injury, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death, complex litigation, product liability, professional negligence, and consumer fraud. He is among a small number of New Jersey attorneys recognized as a published authority on wrongful death law, settlement strategies, and damages. He has handled thousands of serious injury and death cases and tried hundreds of cases to jury verdicts or binding arbitration awards. He is certified as a civil trial attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He earned a BA cum laude from Villanova University and a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University Law School, where he was a writer and member of the Rutgers Camden Law Review.

He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the personal injury category and among the Best Personal Injury Lawyers in New Jersey. He holds a 27(b) certification as Trial and Defense Counsel for Courts Martial and served 23 years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, retiring at the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 4. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. In 2024, he served as co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Markert v. Shore Memorial Hospital, in which an Atlantic County jury returned a verdict of $37,548,096 for a child born with hemiplegic cerebral palsy.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$37.5 millionVerdict

An Atlantic County jury awarded $37,548,096 to a 16-year-old with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, finding that an obstetrician and two labor and delivery nurses at Shore Memorial Hospital mismanaged Pitocin during his 2008 birth and caused a stroke that injured his brain.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Atlantic County · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
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Practice areas

Education

Rutgers University Law School
JD
Villanova University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New Jersey

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