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Rossi, Cox, Vucinovich, Bremseth & Flaskamp PC includes lawyers listed in the Best Lawyers in America. Our law firm has attained the highest rating with Martindale Hubbell, a national directory of attorneys. Two of the partners in our law firm have been President of the Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys (1992 and 1998).

James K. Vucinovich

James K. Vucinovich

 

 

 

 

Jim Vucinovich is President and Managing Partner of the Firm, and a nationally-recognized FELA attorney with over 20 years of committed representation of injured railroad workers and their families.  Jim has successfully litigated and settled hundreds of FELA and serious personal injury claims, including catastrophic brain injury, amputations, toxic exposure and wrongful death.  Early in his career, Jim recognized the railroads failed to protect their workers’ hearing and set up a comprehensive program to identify and evaluate current and former railroad workers suffering from hearing loss.  He represented over 3,000 claimants whose hearing was damaged by the railroad’s long-standing neglect.  The railroads paid millions in settlements after being forced to accept responsibility for their negligence and have since instituted employee hearing conservation programs.

Jim consistently wins significant verdicts and settlements for his clients, among them:

  • $12 million settlement for serious brain injury case
  • $4 million settlement for toxic exposure
  • $3.4 million for a UP conductor for shoulder and ankle injuries (Los Angeles, CA)
  • $2.7 million settlement for crush injury
  • $1.425 million for a UP engineer for shoulder injury (Denver, CO)
  • $1 million for a UP conductor for neck injuries (Denver, CO)
  • $872,000 for a BNSF conductor for shoulder and back injuries (Seattle, WA)

He successfully represented railroad employees in the following reported cases:

  • Haworth v. Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Ry. Co., 281 F.Supp.2d 1207 (E.D. Wash., Aug.19, 2003)(NO. CS02-0344-JLQ) (Locomotive Inspection Action violation);
  • Reinsch V. Union Pacific R. Co., 12 F.Supp.2d 1136, 162 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2569 (D.Colo., Jun 16, 1998)(NO. CIV. A. 98-B-952)(Employee's right to resist railroad medical evaluation); and
  • McGinn v. Burlington Northern R. Co., 102 F.3d 295 (7th Cir. (I11), Dec 12, 1996)(NO.96-1685)(Locomotive Inspection Act).

Jim is licensed in Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Colorado.  He is admitted to multiple federal district courts throughout the Midwest and west, and the 7th and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeal.  He regularly tries cases in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and California, and has handled FELA cases in over 20 states.

Jim is a member of the American Association for Justice and The Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys.  He is a current officer of the American Association for Justice Highway Grade Committee.  The Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association designated him a Board Certified Trial Specialist in 2004. 

Jim graduated from William Mitchell College of Law in 1986, and wrote for the William Mitchell Law Review.  He has a Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota (1980).