Todd Schafer has earned a national reputation as a leading trial lawyer, known for taking on difficult personal injury cases and delivering exceptional results for his clients.
The son of founding partner Timothy Schafer, Todd was introduced to the courtroom early in his career and began trying cases at a young age. Those early opportunities helped shape the trial lawyer he would become – aggressive when necessary, meticulous in his preparation, and willing to take difficult cases to verdict in jurisdictions where substantial recoveries are never guaranteed.
At just 30 years old, Todd served as lead counsel in a case that resulted in a landmark $32.5 million jury verdict for a young mother who suffered catastrophic brain injuries in a collision involving a semi-truck. He is believed to have been the youngest attorney in the country to serve as lead counsel in a case resulting in a verdict exceeding $30 million.
That verdict was only the beginning. Throughout his career, Todd has continued to obtain extraordinary results for injured clients, including multiple record-setting verdicts. His results have placed him among the nation’s Top 100 Jury Verdicts three separate times.
Todd’s accomplishments have also earned him membership in the Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only organization limited to 100 of the most accomplished plaintiff trial lawyers in the United States. He was invited to join at just 39 years old, making him one of the youngest attorneys ever admitted to the organization.
For Todd, however, the measure of a case has never been the size of the verdict alone. His career has been defined by a commitment to the people he represents – families whose lives have been permanently changed through no fault of their own – and by his willingness to fight for them when the stakes are highest.
