Managing Partner
Ben Folkman opened Folkman Law Offices, PC in October of 1998. Ben is highly accessible to clients and prides himself on working diligently to make sure that each and every one of their needs is met.
Ben is a highly experienced litigator. He has been certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Board Certified Trial Advocate.
Ben’s $100 million verdict was listed by the NJ Law Journal as the largest personal injury verdict for New Jersey in 2009.
HONORS & AWARDS
- Member, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- New Jersey Super Lawyer, 2007-2023
- Top 100: New Jersey Super Lawyers, 2014-2016
- SJ MAG’s Top Attorney, 2008-2018, 2021
- South Jersey Magazine’s Awesome Attorneys, 2010-2018, 2020-2022
- Martindale Hubble, AV Rated
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025
- Selected for inclusion in Woodward White’s The Best Law Firms in America; in the field of Personal Injury Litigation for 2024 (Copyright 2013 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). The list is generated entirely on peer review. A further description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
PRESENTATIONS & SEMINARS
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2023, Employment Section, Co-Chair
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2022, Employment Section, Presenter
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2021, Employment Section, Co-Chair & Presenter
- NJAJ’s Meadowlands Seminar 2020, Employment Section, Co-Chair & Presenter
- Lawline’s Webcast Course 2021, Litigating Equine Personal Injury Cases, Presenter
- Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology 2020, The Impact of Covid-19 on Civil Jury Trials, Lecturer
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2020, Employment Section, Co-Chair & Presenter
- NJICLE’s Program 2019, An Essential Guide to Valuing a Law Practice: A Practical & Ethical Roadmap, Presenter
- NJICLE’s Program 2019, Legal Malpractice Update, Deposing the Expert Witness, Presenter
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2019, Employment Section, Co-Chair & Presenter
- Lawline’s Webcast Course 2019, New Jersey Trust & Business Accounting: Avoiding the Pitfalls, Presenter
- NJICLE’s Program 2018, Legal Malpractice Update: Deposing the Adverse Expert, Presenter
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2018, Employment Section, Co-chair & Presenter
- Lawline’s Webcast Course 2017, Starting and Managing a Law Practice in New Jersey, Presenter
- NJICLE’s Program 2017, Legal Malpractice Update: Deposition of the Defendant Attorney, Presenter
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2017, Employment Section, Co-Chair & Presenter
- Burlington County Bar Association’s Professionalism Day Seminar 2016, The 200 Year History & Future of Ethics in Attorney Marketing, Practical Issues in Law Firm Advertising Ethics, Presenter
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2016, Employment Section, Co-Chair & Presenter
- How to Get Your Social Media, E-Mail & Text Evidence Admitted (And Keep Theirs Out), 2015
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2015, Employment Section, Presenter
- Legal Ethics: Top 10 Challenges 2014, Duties to Prospective Clients, Presenter
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2014, Employment Section, Presenter
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2011, Employment Section, Presenter
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2010, Employment Section, Presenter
- NJAJ’s Boardwalk Seminar 2009, Employment Section, Presenter
- New Jersey Bar Association’s Mid-Year Meeting 1992, Products Liability, Speaker
- Reinsurance’s Mock Reinsurance Arbitration 1990, Speaker
- National Symposium on Legal Malpractice 1989, Legal Malpractice, Speaker
- Legal Malpractice Seminar sponsored by the American Bar Association in San Francisco, California, 1989, Program Chair
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- New Jersey Association for Justice, Board of Governors, 2016-present
- New Jersey Association for Justice, Co-Chair Employment Committee and Section, 2016-present
- New Jersey Association for Justice, Co-chair Business Tort Committee, 2016-present
- American Bar Association, Torts and Insurance Practice Section, Past Chair of the Self-Insurers and Risk-Management Committee
- American Bar Association, Member
- New Jersey Bar Association, Member
- Camden County Bar Association, Member
- Philadelphia Bar Association, Member
- American Association for Justice, Member
- Injury Board, Member
- Arizona Employee Lawyers Association (AzELA), Member
EDUCATION
- B.A., Dickinson College, cum laude, 1979
- J.D., Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, 1982
BAR ADMISSIONS
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Missouri
- New York
- Washington D.C.
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Vermont
COURT ADMISSIONS
- U.S. District Courts: New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Vermont, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of Missouri, and Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals: First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, District of Columbia, and Federal Circuits
- U.S. Supreme Court
