Brian E. Mahoney, who has been certified and re-certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, joined Blume, Goldfaden in the summer of 2004. He has participated in a variety of complex litigation over the past 25 years, involving construction, toxic tort, products liability, medical malpractice and personal injury law. His trial experience has encompassed either trying or co-trying over 50 cases to verdict, including two cases which produced verdicts in excess of $1.0 million.

Mr. Mahoney is the author of New Jersey Comparative Fault and Liability Apportionment (Gann Law Books), a leading treatise which has been published annually since 2000.  In 2005, this treatise was re-titled 'New Jersey Personal Injury Recovery'.  This work has been cited by the New Jersey Supreme Court as authoritative in its field. Mr. Mahoney has lectured on the subject of comparative fault in the Inns of Court program.

An accomplished appellate attorney, Mr. Mahoney has provided briefing or oral argument in several cases which have produced published opinions. In recent years, Mr. Mahoney's appellate successes contributed precedential advancements or clarifications in successor corporation liability law, the doctrine of forum non conveniens, and the law of evidence, experts, and trial practice.

Mr. Mahoney attended the University of Exeter in Exeter, England and received his B.A. with honors from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1976. He received his J.D. with honors from Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey in 1979 and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar the same year.