Tamara Van Pala Skrobacki

Raleigh, NC10 years experience

About Tamara Van Pala Skrobacki

Tamara Van Pala Skrobacki is a personal injury attorney at Ricci Law Firm in North Carolina. With over a decade as a trial lawyer handling complex legal disputes across the Carolinas, she has served as first chair in more than 20 administrative trials.

Her practice covers car accidents, truck accidents, workers' compensation, wrongful death, personal injury, motorcycle accidents, brain injuries, premises liability, and catastrophic injury cases.

Van Pala Skrobacki earned her Bachelor's degree magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina Honors College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, received the McKissick Scholarship, and the G.G. Dowling Student Award. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law, where she made the Dean's List, served as Senior Articles Editor of the South Carolina Law Review, and won First Place in the J. Woodrow Lewis Moot Court Competition.

She is admitted to the North Carolina State Bar, the South Carolina State Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar.

Van Pala Skrobacki is a member of the North Carolina State Bar Health Law Section Council and the North Carolina Advocates for Justice.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Ricci Law Firm Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Ricci Law Firm Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Henderson County jury awarded $101 million to two masonry workers and one worker's wife after a 12-foot retaining wall, rebuilt under Hajoca's direction without an engineer or a permit, collapsed onto their crew.

Henderson County Superior Court (Hendersonville, NC) · 2026Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$21 millionSettlementTop 20 in North Carolina · #4

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly reported that Meredith Hinton of Ricci Law Firm resolved a motor vehicle injury claim for $21 million in 2023, one of the larger auto settlements recorded in the state that year.

2023Car AccidentsRead 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 South Carolina Honors College
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of North Carolina
State Bar of South Carolina
State Bar of District of Columbia
North Carolina State Bar Health Law Section Council
North Carolina Advocates for Justice
Phi Beta Kappa

Awards & recognition

B.A. magna cum laude, University of South Carolina Honors College
Senior Articles Editor, South Carolina Law Review
First Place, J. Woodrow Lewis Moot Court Competition
G.G. Dowling Student Award
McKissick Scholarship

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$40 million · Henson Fuerst Wins Record $40 Million Drunk Driving Verdict
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$31 Million Settlement After Two-Point Lap Belt Paralyzed an 11-Year-Old in a Ford Escort
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$3.41 million · Johnston County Jury Awards $3.41 Million to Family of 23-Year-Old Killed by Sucker Punch at Selma Bar

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