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About James Lemonds
James P. Lemonds is an attorney at Brown & Crouppen Law Firm in St. Louis, Missouri. He specializes in cases of product liability, construction injuries, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, and wrongful death.
Lemonds began fighting for personal injury victims in 2004, following a twenty-year legal career representing product manufacturers, health care providers, and insurance companies. He joined Brown & Crouppen in 2007 and has successfully handled many multi-million dollar cases. He has tried to jury verdict well over 100 civil cases in State and Federal District Courts in Missouri and Illinois.
Lemonds is recognized as one of the top 50 lawyers in St. Louis and has been awarded Winningest Plaintiff Attorney and Best Litigator by Missouri Lawyers Weekly.
He earned his Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1983 and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Missouri in 1980.
He is admitted to the Missouri and Illinois bars and the Federal District Courts and Courts of Appeal in both states.
Lemonds lectures and writes on legal liability topics for numerous legal, healthcare, and industry groups, and teaches discovery and trial skills to lawyers from Missouri and Illinois legal aid firms each year.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Brown & Crouppen
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A St. Louis jury awarded $462 million against trailer maker Wabash National after its defective rear-impact guard failed and allowed a car to slide beneath a trailer on I-55, killing Taron Tailor, 30, and Nicholas Perkins, 23, in 2019.
Brown & Crouppen helped Zachary Patchin's family reach a $5.97 million settlement after an Ice Cream Factory box truck crossed into oncoming traffic in a no-passing zone and killed both drivers on U.S. 50 in Osage County, Missouri.
A federal jury found that a snow-covered crack in a Family Video parking lot caused Rosemarie Waddy's broken ankle, awarding $2 million before a 15 percent fault finding cut her recovery to about $1.7 million.
A St. Louis City jury awarded Tara Straussner $1,168,829 after a city employee driving a concrete truck crossed the centerline and hit her head-on, leaving her with a permanent brain injury, though Missouri's sovereign-immunity cap held the city's payout near $517,000.
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