John Demas
VerifiedAbout John Demas
John Demas is the founding partner of Demas Law Group, P.C. in Sacramento, California. He has exclusively represented injured victims for over 30 years and is recognized as one of California's top plaintiff attorneys with extensive trial experience and several multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements.
Demas earned his Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1992, graduating With Distinction. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of the Pacific in 1989.
He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1992 and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in 1992.
He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), Consumer Attorneys of California (Board Member), American Association for Justice, The Justice Roundtable, and the Capital City Trial Lawyers Association (Past President). He is a Past President of the Sacramento Valley Chapter of ABOTA.
Notable case results
A Sacramento County jury awarded $32.16 million to the two young children of Juan Carlos Rodriguez after a City of Sacramento police detective drifted across the fog line on Interstate 5 and struck Rodriguez and his brother, killing both men.
A Sacramento County jury awarded $10.2 million to a couple riding a tandem bicycle on a shared trail in Folsom after a pedestrian stepped into their path and caused a collision that left the wife with a traumatic brain injury.
A Sacramento family received a then-record $9.75 million civil settlement after a Sacramento police officer's department vehicle rear-ended their car at 63 mph on Interstate 80, fatally injuring 9-month-old Raiden Saechao.
A Stanislaus County jury awarded Kerry Bosch $6,678,026 after a company truck driven by an employee of Premiere Raspberries, LLC rear-ended her vehicle on northbound I-5 near Patterson, leaving her with a lumbar disc herniation that required spinal fusion surgery.
Sacramento County paid $4 million to a teenager who had been imprisoned, starved, and beaten for seven years while CPS social workers repeatedly failed to act on at least ten documented abuse reports.
A Sacramento jury returned a $3,299,455 verdict for a motorist whose spinal injuries from a 2015 rear-end collision left him permanently disabled, despite the defense contesting both causation and the claimed damages.
Wrongful death verdict against the City of Sacramento
Settlement
Bicycle accident verdict
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
