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About William Burns Jr.
William S. "Bill" Burns Jr., Esq. is a trial lawyer at Pajcic & Pajcic with over five decades of legal experience advocating for victims of injury. He is a Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer specializing in medical malpractice, products liability, personal injury, and premises liability.
Burns practiced personal injury law starting in 1974 and joined Pajcic & Pajcic in 1996. Earlier in his career he spent 20 years as an insurance defense attorney and served as a Certified Mediator for five years. Before law school, he served as a U.S. Navy Lieutenant in the Civil Engineer Corps from 1967 to 1971.
He has secured substantial verdicts including a $13 million verdict in a log truck case, a $7 million settlement (despite no criminal charges in the underlying matter), and a $5.25 million recovery in a fatal crash, plus multi-million dollar medical malpractice recoveries. He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest possible peer rating — and is an invited member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
He earned his J.D. with honors from Florida State University College of Law in 1973 and his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in 1967. He was admitted to the Florida Bar and 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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