William Sykes
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About William Sykes
William Sykes is a founding Partner and Trial Lawyer at Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers, specializing in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. He has secured multiple seven- and eight-figure settlements throughout his career.
Sykes earned his Juris Doctor from the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law in 2005 and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration cum laude with University Honors from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2002. He is admitted to the State Bar of Nevada, the District of Columbia Bar, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.
Following two years as a judicial law clerk after law school, Sykes joined Claggett & Associates in 2008 and later co-founded Claggett & Sykes. His honors include AV Preeminent (Martindale-Hubbell, 2013), Mountain States Super Lawyers (2019-2021), the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 Civil Plaintiff Lawyers, and the NJA Badger Award (2021). He serves on the Nevada Justice Association Board of Governors and founded its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committee.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers
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A Utah judge entered a $951 million default judgment against Steward Health Care after newly trained nurses, an excessive Pitocin drip, and a delayed C-section at Jordan Valley Medical Center left a newborn permanently brain damaged.
A Rio Arriba County jury held Acadia Healthcare and its New Mexico foster care subsidiaries responsible for placing an 8-year-old girl with a foster father who raped her repeatedly, returning one of the largest single-plaintiff sexual abuse verdicts in the country.
A 20-year-old painter suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2021 ladder fall in Utah. A Denver jury found his workers' compensation carrier, NorGUARD Insurance, knowingly and unreasonably delayed and denied his care, including inpatient rehabilitation. It awarded $145.26 million, made up of $85.26 million in compensatory and $60 million in punitive damages.
A retrial jury in Utah's Fourth District Court awarded $81 million against Beacon Roofing Supply after one of its trucks struck and killed a 12-year-old boy who was crossing legally in a marked crosswalk.
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