Raymond Reid Jr.

Attorney at Pajcic & Pajcic
Jacksonville, FL30 years experienceAdmitted 1995

About Raymond Reid Jr.

Raymond P. Reid Jr., Esq. is a Partner at Pajcic & Pajcic, focusing his practice on personal injury, products liability, trucking law, and medical malpractice. He has been lead counsel in countless cases and was involved in two of the firm's highest jury verdicts.

Reid began his legal career as an Assistant State Attorney for Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit, then transitioned to civil law as an Assistant General Counsel for the City of Jacksonville before joining Pajcic & Pajcic. He earned an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell as early as 2005 and has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a Best Lawyer in plaintiffs' personal injury litigation since 2015. In 2016, he was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), where he serves as 2023 Jacksonville Chapter President, and into the invitation-only International Society of Barristers.

Reid speaks French and Creole, is well-traveled, and serves as the resident technology lecturer at Pajcic & Pajcic, also lecturing nationwide.

He earned his J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law in 1994 and his Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida in 1991. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1995 and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in 1997.

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.S., 1994
University of Florida
Undergraduate, 1991

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida, admitted 1995
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, admitted 1997
The Florida Bar
American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) — 2023 Jacksonville Chapter President
International Society of Barristers
Attorneys Information Exchange Group
D.W. Perkins Bar Association
Jacksonville Bar Association
Florida Justice Association
Jacksonville Justice Association (Board Member)
Florida Bar Foundation (Board Member, 2018-2022)
Fourth Judicial Circuit Conviction Integrity Unit

Awards & recognition

Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating (2005)
Super Lawyers Rising Star (2009)
Super Lawyers (2016-present)
U.S. News & World Report Best Lawyer — Plaintiffs' Personal Injury Litigation (2015+)
ABOTA Jacksonville Chapter President's Award (2019, 2024)
Jacksonville Bar Association Professionalism Award (2020)
ABOTA Jacksonville Chapter Professionalism Award (2020)
Michelline Haynes-Ruth Award, JJA (2023 inaugural)

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