About Nolan R. Jones

Nolan R. Jones is a Partner at Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora, LLP. He represents people and families in cases involving catastrophic injury, wrongful death, dangerous conditions of public property, trucking and commercial incidents, product defects, and complex premises liability. Nolan joined the firm in 2013 as a law clerk while attending McGeorge School of Law in the evenings, working directly with Roger Dreyer and Robert Bale on high-profile matters. Since 2016, he has practiced at the firm as a trial lawyer who guides clients through investigation, discovery, expert development, motion work, mediation, and trial. Clients and referring lawyers know Nolan for detailed preparation, clear communication, and steady leadership through difficult moments.

He treats every case as a story that deserves to be heard, from life-changing injuries to more routine collisions that still turn a family's life upside down. His practice includes hands-on work with technical experts, scene inspections, data and video analysis, and careful presentation of medical and causation issues to juries and mediators. Nolan's peers often seek his help with lien strategy and post-resolution planning. He has written for Forum Magazine on lien negotiations and has presented twice for the Consumer Attorneys of California on lien strategy.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association, where he helps develop education and resources for the plaintiff bar. Before practicing law, Nolan spent nearly a decade in restaurants, from host stand to management. That experience shaped how he thinks about safety rules, training, customer flow, and risk prevention, which now informs his work in premises and operations cases. At McGeorge, he immersed himself in Trial Advocacy, completed every specialty course available, graduated a semester early, and passed the California bar exam on his first attempt.

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

McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
J.D., 2015
California State University
Undergraduate, 2010

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 2016

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