Benjamin Richard

Attorney at Pajcic & Pajcic
Jacksonville, FL21 years experienceAdmitted 2005

About Benjamin Richard

Benjamin Richard, Esq. is the in-house Appellate Counsel at Pajcic & Pajcic, serving in that role since 2005. Described as the firm's go-to person on all legal issues, he provides comprehensive litigation support across all case phases and has approximately 21 years of legal experience.

Richard has 13 reported appellate decisions and 13 significant verdicts and settlements ranging from $950,000 to $5.2 million, primarily in personal injury, wrongful death, and trucking litigation. He is recognized as a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent attorney, has been selected to Florida Super Lawyers Rising Stars annually since 2013, and was named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 in Florida.

He earned his J.D. summa cum laude from Florida Coastal School of Law in 2005, where he served as Law Review Managing Editor (2004-2005), and his B.A. in Political Science from Southeastern Louisiana University in 2002. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2005 and is also admitted to all three U.S. District Courts in Florida (Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Pajcic & Pajcic

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

A Nassau County jury found two trucking companies responsible for the 2017 chain-reaction crash on I-95 near Yulee that killed 18-year-old Connor Dzion, returning a $1 billion verdict that Curry Pajcic won for the teen's parents.

Nassau County Circuit Court, FL · 2021Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

A Nassau County jury awarded $141.5 million, including $125 million in punitive damages, against K&N Logging after an unvetted driver's 80,000-pound log truck plowed into stopped school-zone traffic and left a young child with permanent brain damage.

Nassau County Circuit Court, FL · 2024Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$21 millionVerdict

A 4-month-old girl died in May 2019 after being left about five hours in a hot van outside a Jacksonville preschool, and the owner later pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter. In January 2022 a Duval County jury awarded her mother $21 million in a wrongful death case against the preschool. The insurer denied coverage, and the resulting federal coverage case settled on undisclosed terms in 2024.

Circuit Court, Duval County, Florida (Jacksonville) · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$18.74 millionVerdict

A Duval County jury returned an $18.74 million verdict after Joshua Mathews suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2012 assault outside Pete's Bar in Neptune Beach.

Duval County Circuit Court, FL · 2016Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$10.2 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2005 · #9

A Duval County jury found that the collapsing roof and a defective seatbelt of a 2000 Ford Explorer caused a young driver's death in a Virginia rollover, returning $10,184,315 against Ford in the first verdict aimed squarely at the Explorer's roof and belt design.

Duval County Circuit Court, FL · 2005Product LiabilityRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Florida Coastal School of Law
B.A. in Political Science, 2005
Southeastern Louisiana University
Undergraduate, 2002

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida, admitted 2005
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
The Florida Bar
Jacksonville Bar Association
American Bar Association
Florida Justice Association (Eagle Member)
Jacksonville Justice Association
American Association for Justice
Chester Bedell Inn of Court
Attorneys Information Exchange Group

Awards & recognition

Florida Super Lawyers Rising Star (annually since 2013)
National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (Florida)
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating
Florida Coastal Law Review Managing Editor (2004-2005)

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