Benjamin Richard
Attorney Profile
Ben Richard has been Pajcic & Pajcic’s appellate specialist since 2005. He graduated valedictorian and summa cum laude from Florida Coastal School of Law where he was managing editor of the law review. Ben is involved in all trials and appeals at Pajcic & Pajcic.
Benjamin Richard's work at Pajcic & Pajcic includes:
- $5.2 Million Verdict is Twice the Final Offer
- NIED Is Key to Million Dollar Recoveries for Wrongful Deaths
- $1.85 Million from Truck that T-Boned Police Car
- Jury Awards $3/4 Million to Prominent Former Public Defender
- DNA Exonerates Man Wrongly Convicted of Rape/Murder
- Insurance Companies for Fatigued Trucker Pay Limits to Police Sergeant
- Punitive Damages Against Trucking Company
- Trucker Pays $2.4 Million for Death of Husband/Great Uncle
- $1 Million for Family Injured in 100 MPH Police Chase
- $950,000 for Fractured Ankle Because Truck Driver on Cocaine
- Big Truck Case Settles Just Before Jury Selection for $2.75 Million
- $2 Million from Alarm Company and Apartment Complex for Failure to Protect Elderly Woman
- $1 Million Because Accident Affects Golf Swing of All Star Pitcher
- Jury Verdict for 3 1/2 Times Insurance Policy Limits
Biography
Benjamin E. Richard, born Erie, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1978; admitted to bar 2005, Florida, U.S. District Court Middle and Northern Districts of Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida. EDUCATION: Southeastern Louisiana University (B.A., Political Science, 2002); Florida Coastal School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2005).
Managing Editor, Florida Coastal Law Review, 2004-2005. Extern for the Honorable Justice Peggy A. Quince, Florida Supreme Court, 2004. Author: “Approaching the Next Stop on the Supreme Court’s Sixth Amendment Journey to ‘Apprendi-Land’: the Invalidation of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines,” 6 Fla. Coastal L. Rev. 193 (2004); “Confederate Battle Flags: Offensive Racism or Protected Symbols of Southern Heritage,” 5 Fla. Coastal L. J. 121, 140 (2004). MEMBER: The Florida Bar; Jacksonville and American Bar Associations; Florida Justice Association; Jacksonville Justice Association. REPORTED CASES: Webb v. Thomas May Construction Co., 958 So. 2d 1111 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007); O’Brien v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 999 So.2d 1081 (Fla. 1st DCA 2009).PRACTICE AREAS: Products Liability; Medical Malpractice; Personal Injury; Appellate Law. EMAIL: ben@pajcic.com
Personal Interests
Ben and his wife Sarah have had the joy of seeing constant parental attention and modern medical care save the sight of their young son.
That success and the birth of their second child have allowed Ben and Sarah to become more normal, harried, young, working parents.
Public Service
Ben serves as a tutor to law clerks and helps with all legal questions in the firm’s pro bono cases.