ST. LOUIS (MO)
Berger’s Beat
If you’ve gotta fall down steps or slip on ice somewhere this winter, you might consider doing it at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark over the lunch hour Friday, January 27. That’s when hundreds of barristers will gather for the annual Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s awards confab. One of three honorees in the “Influential Lawyers” category is Rebecca Randles of Kansas City. She represents dozens of the clergy sex abuse victims in western Missouri (including 20+ who sued just last year). Legal minds around here may remember Randles from the 1999 Bachmann v. Gummersbach and the St. Louis archdiocese case. It’s the only civil lawsuit against a pedophile priest that’s ever gone to trial in the state. The jury awarded the victim $1.2 million but that was overturned on appeal.
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