Robert J. Drakulich

Focusing his practice primarily on personal injury and product liability litigation, Robert J. Drakulich is a partner at The Drakulich Firm, APLC. With offices in California, and Nevada, he represents people who have been harmed by the wrongful conduct of others.  Mr. Drakulich has actively participated as a member of the trial team on several multi-million-dollar cases.  Together with his firm partner, Mr. Drakulich has helped attain hundreds of millions of dollars for the firm’s clients.  

Mr. Drakulich specializes his product liability practice on helping people who have taken unreasonably dangerous pharmaceutical drugs or who had defective medical devices implanted in them.  Mr. Drakulich has been involved in numerous mass torts, including working on federal consolidated cases in Multi-District Litigations (MDLs) as well as California JCCP actions. Mr. Drakulich was honored to be appointed to a leadership position as a member of the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee (PSC) in the Elmiron (Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium) Products Liability Litigation Multidistrict Litigation, MDL No. 2973., Case No. 2:20-md-0297 (BRM)(ESK) in the United States District Court of the District of New Jersey by the Honorable Judge Brian R. Martinotti. 

Mr. Drakulich concentrates his personal injury practice on catastrophic injury cases, including spinal and brain injuries, paralysis, amputation, wrongful death, car accidents, airplane/helicopter crashes, and nursing home abuse cases.  In addition, Mr. Drakulich assists policyholders whose claims have been denied in bad faith by their insurance companies, whistleblower claims, and business litigation disputes.

His successful track record in all of these endeavors has led to his receipt of a 10.0 "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo, the Top 40 under 40 in California Award by the National Trial Lawyers, the Rising Star Award in both Nevada and California by Super Lawyers, as well as receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from America’s Top 100 Attorneys.

Mr. Drakulich has been honored to be an invited speaker at over twenty five legal seminars across the country, including the last seven years at the Annual Class Action / Complex Litigation Symposium held in New Orleans, Louisiana as well as at numerous HarrisMartin MDL Conferences, including in San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Napa, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, St. Louis, New York, and Washington D.C.

Mr. Drakulich is admitted to practice before all California, Nevada, Washington D.C., and Minnesota state courts. Mr. Drakulich is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada as well as the Ninth and Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

As an undergraduate, Mr. Drakulich attended the University of California, Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies, and he received a Bachelor of Arts in 2004. He then spent time teaching high school, coaching tennis, and being a working artist before deciding to pursue a legal career. To that end, he enrolled at the University of San Diego School of Law, and he received several academic awards before obtaining his Juris Doctor cum laude in 2010. Mr. Drakulich endeavors to employ his creative skills and teaching background in the courtroom. Much like art, when handling a client’s case, Mr. Drakulich looks at it from every angle, reduces it to the simplest form and tries to think of the most compelling method to convey it to an audience.