ST. LOUIS (MO)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

BY TIM TOWNSEND • ttownsend@post-dispatch.com

The St. Louis Archdiocese has moved its legal work in house, severing a decades-long relationship with the Huger family.

In a statement sent to the Post-Dispatch late Friday afternoon, Katie Pesha, the archdiocese’s executive director of communications and planning, confirmed that Archbishop Robert Carlson had hired Tom Buckley, formerly of the law firm Buckley & Buckley, as the archdiocese’s in-house general counsel.

Bernard Huger, whose father was doing legal work for the archdiocese in the 1960s, and whose daughter Lucie represented the third generation of the family to work as an attorney for the archdiocese, works for Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale. His father merged the family firm, Huger & Cramer, with Greensfelder in the 1980s.

The Hugers have done legal work for six of St. Louis’s ten archbishops.