Robert B. Bale

Robert B. Bale is a partner with Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora, LLP. He joined the firm in 2002, and his focus has been on representing plaintiffs in personal injury matters. Bob Bale brings a wealth of life experience to the practice of personal injury law. For over a decade before he started practicing law, Bob served as the vice president of marketing for a large, privately held corporation. In that capacity, he gained valuable knowledge about the ways that private and public businesses work.

That background has been especially helpful in his prosecution of personal injury actions against corporate wrongdoers. Over the course of the past decade Bob and firm namesake Roger Dreyer have obtained a series of verdicts in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, a number of which have garnered national media attention. In Strange v. Entercom, a Sacramento jury returned a verdict in excess of $17 million for the wrongful death of Jennifer Strange, the young mother of three children who died after participating in a radio contest to see who could drink the most water during a popular morning show. This was the largest personal injury verdict for a wrongful death in the history of that county.

In Bell v. MasterCraft, a Butte County jury awarded over $32 million to two young women struck by the propeller of an X-45 wakeboard boat, the highest amount ever in that county. In Mauro v. Ford Motor Company, another Sacramento jury awarded over $20 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages for the wrongful death of one passenger and personal injuries to two others, another record verdict. In 2018, Roger and Bob, along with partner Noemi Esparza, obtained a verdict of $36,197,264 in Aguirre v. Nissan Motor Company for catastrophic injuries to a young father of four children caused by a defect in a 2001 Nissan Xterra. These defects caused the Nissan to accelerate suddenly on its own until it crashed under a parked big-rig trailer.