Robert Buccola
Managing and Founding Partner | Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora, LLP
Robert Buccola is a personal injury, wrongful death and construction accidents trial lawyer and managing and founding partner at Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora, LLP in Sacramento, California. J.D., University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
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Sacramento, California 95826
Robert A. Buccola is a managing and founding partner of Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora, LLP in Sacramento, California, where he represents injured people and their families in personal injury, wrongful death, construction accident, product liability and motor vehicle cases.
A Sacramento native, Buccola graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. He began his career as an insurance defense attorney and has represented injury victims since 1985. He is certified as a civil trial specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and formerly served as a judge pro tem for the Sacramento County Superior Court.
His firm biography credits him with six record verdicts and settlements in Northern California, including a $24.3 million verdict in 2010 and a $34.9 million verdict in 2013, each of which exceeded the Sacramento County personal injury verdict record at the time. Other results include a $31 million settlement for a worker who fell from a cell phone tower and a $19.2 million wrongful death verdict in San Diego County.
Buccola is a past president of the Sacramento chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and was inducted into the Inner Circle of Advocates in 2012. He has written and lectured for Continuing Education of the Bar since 1989 and received the Morton L. Friedman Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2014.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- University of California, Berkeley, B.A.
- University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, J.D.
- Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy
Practice Areas
- American Board of Trial Advocates, Sacramento Chapter (Past President)
- Anthony M. Kennedy Inn of Court (Member Emeritus, Master of the Bar)
- Inner Circle of Advocates
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- The National Trial Lawyers (Top 100 Trial Lawyers)
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel
- Sacramento Child Advocates (Board Member)
- Court Appointed Special Advocates (Fund Developer)
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2024)
- Super Lawyers Northern California Top 100 (2008-2019)
- Super Lawyers Sacramento Top 25 (2013-2019)
- The Best Lawyers in America Greater Sacramento Area Trial Lawyer of the Year (2013)
- Morton L. Friedman Humanitarian of the Year Award (2014)
- Consumer Attorneys of California Top 10 Litigator and Consumer Attorney of the Year Finalist (2005)
- ABOTA Sacramento Chapter Trial Lawyer of the Year (2001)
- Consumer Attorneys Sacramento Chapter Trial Lawyer of the Year (1998)
- AV Preeminent rating, Martindale-Hubbell
- University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law 80th Anniversary Practicing Lawyer (2005)
- $93 Million Class Action Settlement: Johnson v. CSAA, Sacramento County; class action on behalf of CSAA insureds.
- $70 Million Class Action Settlement: Lumenta v. Allstate, Sacramento County.
- $34.9 Million Verdict: A Sacramento County jury returned a record personal injury verdict for personal injury and loss of consortium claims in a semi-truck and trailer accident that resulted in paralysis.
- $31 Million Settlement: Reached in summer 2018 with AT&T and others for a worker employed by a national cell tower service company who suffered severe and permanent injuries in a 50-foot fall from a cell phone tower.
- $24.3 Million Verdict: Loza-Jimenez v. Freeway Transport, Inc., Sacramento County; verdict of $24,307,273 in a truck accident involving a 9-year-old girl.
- $19.2 Million Verdict: Barber v. Mossy Ford Dealership, San Diego County; wrongful death resulting from a faulty tire repair.
- $14 Million Settlement: Paid by the Solano Irrigation District to the families of two boys who were electrocuted after jumping into a water canal in Dixon, California, to rescue a dog.
- $13.5 Million Settlement: Williams v. PG&E and Central Valley Produce, San Francisco County; arm amputations caused by power lines ($7 million from PG&E and $6.5 million from Central Valley Produce).
- $10.2 Million Verdict: Largent v. Frontier Town Lines & Detroit Diesel Corp., Sacramento County; bus accident.
- $10 Million Settlement: Baker v. Big O Tires, American Racing Equipment, Inc., et al., Nevada County; truck accident.
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