Thomas Vesper
Proven VerdictsAbout 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
A federal judge in Camden, New Jersey, found a Connecticut boater primarily responsible for a 2007 waverunner collision off Wildwood that broke a 14-year-old passenger's leg. After a bench trial on liability, Judge Joseph E. Irenas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled that watercraft operator Marc M. Roy, Jr. was 80 percent at fault and fellow operator George R. Djukanovic, Jr. was 20 percent at fault, while finding the rental company, Lucky Fin Water Sports, LLC, not negligent. The case ended in a $1,350,000 judgment reported in June 2012. The court's opinion lists Westmoreland Vesper & Quattrone, P.A., by Thomas J. Vesper, as counsel for the plaintiff. Roy never answered the lawsuit or appeared in court, and the injured boy's father said the judgment was probably uncollectible.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
