William Bald

Of Counsel at Pajcic & Pajcic
Jacksonville, FL40 years experience

About William Bald

William A. "Bill" Bald, Esq. is Of Counsel at Pajcic & Pajcic, with over 40 years of experience practicing law in Jacksonville, including oral argument experience before the United States Supreme Court. He specializes in appellate work and legal writing. Bald first worked at the firm from 1976 to 1987, and rejoined Pajcic & Pajcic in 2013.

Bald has a long record of public service, having served on the Florida Board of Bar Examiners (1983-1989, including Chairman of the Questions Committee from 1987-1989), the Florida Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions (1990-1999), a Florida Bar Grievance Committee (1982-1983), and the Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Board of Directors (1983-1985). He has been a Legal Aid volunteer attorney since 1973 and is a past Certified Mediator. His notable appellate decisions include Samilian v. Gottlieb (Fla. 1st DCA 2010), Christensen v. Bowen (Supreme Court of Florida 2014), and Daniel v. Holmes Lumber Co. (Supreme Court of Florida 1986).

He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1973 and his A.B. magna cum laude from Duke University in 1970, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to the Florida and Georgia Bars.

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

Harvard Law School
A.B. (magna cum laude), 1973
Duke University
Undergraduate, 1970

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Florida (Bar No. 167466)
State Bar of Georgia
Jacksonville Bar Association
American Bar Association
Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
American Trial Lawyers Association
Phi Beta Kappa

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