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About Lara Gillham
Lara Gillham is an Associate Attorney at Brown & Crouppen Law Firm, focusing on personal injury and workers' compensation. She joined the firm in 2017.
Gillham previously worked in medical malpractice, commercial litigation, and insurance defense. Her experience areas include personal injury, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, dangerous drugs, product liability, premises liability, wrongful death, and disability benefits.
She earned her Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2014, where she participated in the Civil Litigation Clinic. She earned her Bachelor of Arts cum laude from the University of Missouri in 2010, with a Sociology major and minors in Spanish, Journalism, and Women & Gender Studies.
She is admitted to practice in Missouri and Illinois. She is a member of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, American Bar Association, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, Lawyers Association of St. Louis, and Women Lawyers' Association of Greater St. Louis.
She co-founded Just Enduring: Living and Loving After Child Loss, a nonprofit organization, and serves on its Board of Directors.
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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