About John Buckley III
John F. Buckley, III earned his Juris Doctor degree with Honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he earned Certificates of concentration in Insurance Law & Regulation and Health Law. He received the CALI Award for Excellence in Bankruptcy Law and Law and Economics, was a member of the Mock Trial Society (competing at Harvard Law School), and served as an Executive Editor of the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. He completed undergraduate studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a minor in Mathematics. He began working at RisCassi & Davis as a law clerk in the summer of 2023, continued throughout law school, and was officially hired as an attorney upon his admission to the Connecticut bar in November 2025.
Proven verdicts and settlements at RisCassi & Davis
These results are credited to RisCassi & Davis. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Hartford jury returned a $7.25 million verdict for the estate of Daniel DiNardi, a Connecticut DOT supervisor fatally struck by a tractor-trailer while working on the shoulder of Route 8 northbound near Waterbury.
RisCassi and Davis attorneys secured a $6.5 million settlement for students hurt when a school bus plunged down a 20-foot I-84 embankment, killing a 16-year-old Rocky Hill boy on his way to a robotics competition.
Michael Jainchill of RisCassi & Davis secured a $3.8 million settlement for the adult children of Janet Pulver, a 66-year-old Avon grandmother killed when a speeding driver crossed the center line and struck her car head-on in Farmington, Connecticut.
A Hartford Superior Court jury returned a $3,476,025 verdict in September 2014 for motorcyclist Matthew Karotkin, who suffered skull fractures and a lung injury when a UPS driver cut left across his path at a Windsor, Connecticut intersection.
A Waterbury jury returned a $2 million verdict in November 2024 for construction laborer Keven Shepard, who was electrocuted when an excavator struck an Eversource power line marked nearly eight feet from its actual underground position.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
