Curry Pajcic
Pajcic & Pajcic
Curry Pajcic is a trucking accidents, personal injury and product liability trial lawyer with Pajcic & Pajcic in Jacksonville, Florida. Admitted in Florida; J.D., University of Florida Levin College of Law (1994).
Meet Curry
Curry Pajcic is a Jacksonville trial lawyer at Pajcic & Pajcic who represents injured people in trucking, personal injury, products liability and premises liability cases. He is a Board Certified Specialist in Civil Trial Law and joined the firm in 1998.
Pajcic began his career as an assistant state attorney in Florida’s 4th Judicial Circuit from 1994 to 1997, and in 1997 he received the office’s Jury Trial Award for the highest number of jury trials to verdict. His firm’s results include a verdict totaling just over $1 billion in a fatal Nassau County truck crash case, a $13 million verdict in a log truck U-turn crash and a verdict of more than $8.9 million against Starbucks over a drive-thru design.
He served as president of the Florida Justice Association for the 2022-2023 term and is a past president of the Jacksonville chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. The American Board of Trial Advocates named him its 2019 Florida Trial Lawyer of the Year. He has served on the Florida Bar’s Rules of Civil Procedure Committee and chaired its Code and Rules of Evidence Committee in 2021-2022.
Pajcic earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 1991, where he played varsity baseball, and his law degree, with honors, from the University of Florida in 1994.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- University of Virginia, B.A. (1991)
- University of Florida, J.D., with honors (1994)
- Admitted to The Florida Bar and the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (1994)
- Board Certified Specialist in Civil Trial Law
Practice Areas
- Florida Justice Association (Past President, 2022-2023)
- Florida Justice Association (Treasurer, 2019-2020)
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Senior Life Fellow; Past President, Jacksonville Chapter)
- American Association for Justice
- The Florida Bar
- Florida Bar Rules of Civil Procedure Committee
- Jacksonville Bar Association
- The National Trial Lawyers: Trucking Trial Lawyers
- 2019 Florida Trial Lawyer of the Year, American Board of Trial Advocates
- 2018 Trial Lawyer of the Year, American Board of Trial Advocates, Jacksonville Chapter
- Top 10 Jury Verdicts in the United States (2021), TopVerdict.com
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers (2014)
- Florida Super Lawyers
- Florida's Legal Elite
- 7th Amendment Award, Florida Justice Association (2021 legislative session)
- Jury Trial Award, State Attorney's Office, 4th Judicial Circuit (1997)
- Ann Q. Lynch Award, University of Florida (1994)
- AV rated by peers
- $1 Billion Verdict: Nassau County jury verdict totaling just over $1 billion, including $100 million in compensatory and $900 million in punitive damages, in a fatal truck crash case involving an 18-year-old college freshman.
- $13 Million Verdict: Verdict in Nassau County for a young woman who suffered a catastrophic brain injury when her vehicle struck a log truck making a U-turn on U.S. 1.
- $8.9 Million Verdict: Verdict of over $8.9 million against Starbucks Corporation for a 72-year-old woman critically injured by a car leaving a Nassau County drive-thru; jurors found Starbucks 100 percent responsible.
- $4 Million Recovery on $1 Million Policy: Wrongful death case involving a tractor-trailer that jackknifed across an I-95 median; the trucker's insurer paid $4 million on a $1 million policy.
- $2.75 Million Settlement: Trucking case that settled in the courtroom just before jury selection for a man injured in an I-95 chain-reaction crash in Jacksonville.
- $2.1 Million Verdict: Verdict for a child's drowning due to inadequate fencing at a pool.
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