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About Rachel Lawrence
Rachel Lawrence is an attorney at Brown & Crouppen Law Firm. She specializes in motor vehicle accidents, premises liability cases, and dog bite incidents. Since joining the firm in 2018, she has secured numerous six-figure settlements for clients.
Lawrence earned her Juris Doctor with a Dispute Resolution Certificate from the University of Missouri School of Law in 2014, where she earned the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for the highest grade in both her Clinical Skills and Criminal Clinic Writing Project courses, and served as note and comment editor for the Missouri Law Review. She earned her Bachelor of Journalism in Strategic Communication from the University of Missouri in 2011.
She is admitted to practice in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois. She is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (Young Lawyers Section Public Relations Chair, 2024-2025), Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers, and American Association for Justice.
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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