Lawyer Monthly Magazine - October 2019 Edition

How complicated can the aforementioned process become? Workers’ compensation can become extremely complicated, seemingly unfair, immensely frustrating and create financial hardships for injured workers. Everything from the employer’s/employee’s relationship, age, gender, prior medical history, all have ways of creeping into some compensation claims. When is pursuing a legal case not worth it? If an employee is terminated at or near the time of the injury, they generally have less to lose in pursuing the claim and pursue the claim for ulterior motives. The lawyers in my office who present classes to insurance companies and employers will tell them: take care of your employees, treat their injuries like it was your mother or your child that was injured and then perhaps they won’t call us for legal help. That said, if the injury is serious with fractures or surgery you will probably need a lawyer, so be certain that the employer/insurer has one already. TERRY’S JOURNEY INTO LAW Can you share your motivation for specialising in law? My father, Alvin, spent his career in courthouses, but he wasn’t an attorney or a judge. After emigrating from Russia, he was a bail bondsman. He came from a place where there was not a lot of justice and always dreamed of being a lawyer. He told me being a lawyer and helping people would be the best thing I could do with my life. Practicing law is a way to bring justice and goodness to people’s lives. What challenges came your way when pursuing your education in law? In my first year of law school, I was newly married and had my first son, Andy. Having a new family while pursuing my education was challenging, yet very rewarding. What top three qualities make a successful lawyer? Compassion, diligence, and intelligence. LM Super Lawyers By Terry Crouppen, Brown & Crouppen Law Firm 55 OCT 2019 | WWW.LAWYER-MONTHLY.COM TERRY CROUPPEN My name is Terry Crouppen, along with my partner Ron Brown I founded Brown & Crouppen in 1979. As a kid, I always wanted to be a lawyer. I must have watched too much Perry Mason on television. But the thing I got from those old shows was that lawyers could make things right. That lawyers sorted out the facts, revealed the truth and once that happened everything would be OK. At Brown & Crouppen we try to do this for all our clients. We try to represent them in a way that allows the truth about their accident cases to be revealed. At Brown and Crouppen we believe in the truth, we believe that once it’s revealed our clients will finally get the fair compensation they deserve. FIRM PROFILE The law firm of Brown & Crouppen, P.C., has practiced since 1979 in St. Louis, Eastern and Central Missouri, Kansas City and Southern Illinois. Our founders, Ron Brown and Terry Crouppen, along with a team of nearly 100 legal professionals, have built a strong reputation for success in personal injury, medical malpractice, workers’ compensation and Social Security Disability. PRACTICING LAW IS A WAY TO BRING JUSTICE AND GOODNESS TO PEOPLE’S LIVES.