Bill Jungbauer is president and a senior partner in the firm of Yaeger, Jungbauer & Barczak. He practices in the field of personal injury litigation, which includes Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) injury, collision, and wrongful death cases. Bill has been with the firm since 1978. During that time he has obtained some of the largest settlements and verdicts in the country for his clients.
Bill has personally collected more than one $100,000,000 on behalf of his clients, from railroad and insurance companies.
Bill is Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) as a Civil Trial Specialist. To obtain such certification an applicant's past trial record is submitted and he must pass an advanced written civil trial specialist examination.
He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) Section of Railroad Law.
He is on the Board of the Academy of Rail Laborer Attorneys (ARLA), and was the National Chairman for 2005-2006.
He is on the Board of St. Mary's University.
He is proud to have been selected, out of all the lawyers in the country, to represent the BLET before the U.S. Supreme Court in the matter of Norfolk & Western Railway Company v. Ayers, in its amicus brief.
In the field of railroad law, Bill has achieved a national reputation. He was selected by the Lawyers and Judges Publishing Company to attorney-author of the nationally known treatise on railroad law, Train Accident Reconstruction and FELA & Railroad Litigation, now in its fourth edition. It is the most up-to-date and exhaustive review of railroad law.
Bill was elected national chairman of the Railroad Law Section of the largest organization of plaintiff's attorneys in the country, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) in 1992. Under Bill's leadership the Railroad Law Section more than doubled its national membership.
He has received the highest possible legal ability rating (AV) by Martindale-Hubbell, the national rating organization for attorneys.
In 1972, at age 19, Bill was the youngest member of the United States Electoral College. He represented the state of Minnesota.
In 1974-75 He was a Rotary International Ambassador to Edinburgh, Scotland.
Bill practices from coast to coast, and has successfully handled major injury cases involving amputation, wrongful death, railroad collision, and toxic disasters.
