About Craig C. Sheffer

With over 35 years of experience at Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora, Mr. Sheffer holds the distinction of being the firm's longest tenured attorney aside from the three founders who opened the firm in 1987. Craig has litigated numerous high-profile cases, and has successfully resolved thousands of cases for injury victims in his career with the firm. Craig's practice focuses on catastrophic injuries caused by automobile collisions, construction site dangerous conditions, dangerous products and premises liability, as well as wrongful death cases. Craig has earned honors including an AV Preeminent® peer-review rating* through Martindale-Hubbell®.

He was also selected for inclusion in California Super Lawyers®, a ranking of outstanding lawyers across more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Craig has been extremely active in Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), the organization responsible for protecting the rights of injury victims and bringing about legislative change. He served on the CAOC Board of Governors for almost 20 years, and on its Board of Directors, traveling statewide to review important pending legislative changes and judicial opinions. Craig serves the courts of Sacramento and El Dorado counties as a pro tem judge in the court's alternative dispute resolution programs.

After attending and swimming at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, Craig earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration in 1980 and his Juris Doctor in 1987, both from the University of Oregon. Craig is an avid swimmer, and is a former collegiate All American and U.S. Masters All American swimmer. He is also a rabid fan of University of Oregon Ducks sports teams. *AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora

These results are credited to Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

Walkup shareholder Michael A. Kelly served on the plaintiffs' leadership team that secured a $117 million settlement from former PG&E officers and directors over wildfires that ranked among the deadliest in California history.

PG&E Fire Victim Trust / San Francisco, CA · 2022Class ActionsRead the full story →
$73 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2011 · #5

A Sacramento jury awarded $73 million, including $50 million in punitive damages, after a Goodyear tire tread separation caused a Ford E-350 church van to flip four times on I-5, killing two passengers and injuring two others.

Sacramento Superior Court · 2011Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$34.9 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2013 · #15

A Sacramento County jury awarded $34,921,215 to Debra Hackett and her husband after a Silva Trucking tractor-trailer jackknifed on Highway 12 and left Debra paralyzed from the waist down with a traumatic brain injury.

Sacramento County Superior Court · 2013Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$30.9 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2011 · #8

A Butte County jury held MasterCraft 80 percent liable for a design defect that caused the bow of a fully loaded X45 wakeboarding boat to submerge on Lake Oroville, throwing Niki Bell into the propeller and permanently destroying her left eye and part of her frontal lobe.

Butte County Superior Court · 2011Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$22.5 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2010 · #16

A Sacramento jury awarded $24.3 million, then reduced to $22.5 million under a High-Low Agreement, to a 14-year-old girl who was crushed beneath the rear wheels of her father's big rig and faced at least 19 more surgeries.

Sacramento County Superior Court · 2010Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Oregon School of Law
J.D., 1987
University of Oregon
Undergraduate, 1980

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 1987

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.