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About Stephen Pajcic III
Stephen J. "Steve" Pajcic III, Esq. is the Founding Partner of Pajcic & Pajcic, which he established in 1974. He is known for thorough trial preparation and successful settlements across personal injury cases, and works alongside his son and three nephews at the firm. With over 50 years of legal experience, he is one of the most respected trial attorneys in Florida.
In addition to his legal career, Pajcic served six terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 1974 to 1985, where he was nominated by the St. Petersburg Times for Most Valuable Member of the State House for seven consecutive years and was named the Florida Education Association's Outstanding Legislator in 1980 and 1982. He has also published works on Florida constitutional and tax policy.
He earned his J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School and his Bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he played basketball. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1972 and to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in 1974.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Pajcic & Pajcic
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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