Lee Griffin

Attorney at Pajcic & Pajcic
Jacksonville, FL40 years experienceAdmitted 1984

About Lee Griffin

Lee T. "Tad" Griffin, Esq. is one of the most versatile and knowledgeable trial attorneys at Pajcic & Pajcic, the top Jacksonville personal injury firm. He joined Pajcic & Pajcic in 1994 and has served as lead counsel in over 300 cases, securing total recoveries exceeding $100 million.

Griffin began his career as an Assistant Public Defender and worked in several prestigious firms before joining Pajcic & Pajcic. He is a Board Certified Specialist in Civil Trial Law (Florida) and a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocacy Specialist with the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1992. He has been named to Florida Super Lawyers every year since 2006 and Florida Trend's Legal Elite. He is also the author of 'Practice and Procedure in Handling an Automobile Case,' Florida Automobile Insurance Law, 4th Edition, published by The Florida Bar. He served as President of the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2013.

He earned his J.D. from the University of Florida in 1983 and his B.A. with high honors from the University of Florida in 1980. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1984 and to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in 1985.

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

University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law
B.A. (high honors), 1983
University of Florida
Undergraduate, 1980

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida, admitted 1984
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, admitted 1985
The Florida Bar
Jacksonville Bar Association
American Bar Association
American Board of Trial Advocates (President, 2013)
Florida Justice Association
American Association for Justice

Awards & recognition

Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist — Civil Trial Law
AV rating, Martindale-Hubbell
National Board of Trial Advocacy — Board Certified Civil Trial Advocacy Specialist (1992-present)
Florida Super Lawyers (2006-present)
Florida Trend Legal Elite — Civil Trial (2015)
Strathmore's Who's Who

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