About DezaRae LaCrue

DezaRae D. LaCrue is a Senior Attorney at Frank Azar Car & Truck Accident Lawyers (Franklin D. Azar & Associates) in Aurora, Colorado, where she focuses on personal injury litigation and insurance bad faith claims. She has 18 years of experience and joined the firm in 2015 after seven years practicing medical malpractice.

LaCrue earned her J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2008 and her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Denver in 2004. She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado at Denver. She was admitted to the Colorado bar in 2008.

LaCrue has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2017, 2018, 2019) and named to the National Academy of Personal Injury Litigation Top 10 Under 40 (2017). She serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of the American Association for Justice.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Frank Azar Car & Truck Accident Lawyers

These results are credited to Frank Azar Car & Truck Accident Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$188 millionVerdict

A Philadelphia jury found that Walmart had denied nearly 188,000 Pennsylvania workers paid rest breaks and pay for off-the-clock hours, and the judgment entered on that verdict grew to roughly $188 million.

Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 2006Class ActionsRead the full story →
$11.5 millionVerdictTop 20 in Colorado · #14

A Las Animas County jury awarded Rhett Ridolfi $11.5 million after finding helmet maker Riddell negligent for failing to warn players about concussion danger, assigning 27 percent of the fault, roughly $3.1 million, to the company.

Las Animas County District Court, Trinidad, Colorado · 2013Product LiabilityRead the full story →
~$2.27 millionVerdict

A 24-year-old rider with a shattered femur and nearly $940,000 in medical bills won a $2.5 million verdict from a Denver jury in November 2022, a sum the firm reports fell to about $2,272,500 after a 20 percent comparative-fault reduction and interest.

Denver, Colorado · 2022Motorcycle AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Denver Sturm College of Law
B.A. Political Science (Denver, 2004); M.B.A. (CU Denver), 2008
University of Denver
Undergraduate, 2004

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Colorado, admitted 2008
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Directors)
American Association for Justice

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers Rising Star (2017, 2018, 2019)
Top 10 Under 40, National Academy of Personal Injury Litigation (2017)

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