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About Richard Zalasky
Richard J. Zalasky is an attorney at Brown & Crouppen Law Firm with over 43 years of experience as a trial lawyer.
Zalasky previously served as Assistant Attorney General for Missouri from 1993 to 1997 and was a partner at two prominent St. Louis personal injury firms before joining Brown & Crouppen in 2010.
He earned his Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1981 and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science magna cum laude from Saint Louis University in 1978.
He is admitted to the Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas bars. He is a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers, Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (National Advisory Board 2013-2018), American Association for Justice, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
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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