Kari Peterson - Lawyer in St. Louis, MO

Kari is a founding member of O'Leary,Shelton, Corrigan, Peterson, Dalton Quillin LLC. Her practiceincludes all aspects of personal injury litigation, including: catastrophicinjuries, many of which result in amputations, wrongful death claims, productsclaims, premises liability cases, auto and trucking accidents, all-terrain andside by side/utility-task vehicle accidents, forklift accidents, electrocutionand power line cases, construction accidents, workplace accidents, and workers'compensation. Kari also represents people injured as a result ofpharmaceutical and drug products in mass tort litigation on a national basis.Kari has won verdicts, awards and settlements in multiple jurisdictions and hasobtained millions of dollars for her clients throughout thecountry.

A large part of Karis practice is dedicatedto representing those injured in serious auto and trucking accidents and inhandling wrongful death cases. Kari regularly represents amputees whohave been caused to lose limbs due to injuries in electrocution, powerline ormanufacturing accidents. She has successfully resolved cases againstmultiple corporate defendants, including fortune 500 companies.

Kari regularlyrepresents firefighters, police officers, EMS personal, as well as members ofmany other unions work injuries. Her expertise with the workerscompensation system in both Missouri and Illinois regularly produces excellentresults for her clients who are injured on the job. Due toKaris knowledge of the workers compensation system she has been asked tospeak on the topic and has given lectures to other lawyers at Continuing LegalEducation seminars.

Kari was raised in St. Louis. She comesfrom a medical family with numerous physician family members. Both herfather and grandfather had medical practices in the St. Louis area, and herfather was the Chief of Family Practice for a hospital system in St. Louis.Kari's brother is also a physician. While Kari utilizes these resources in her cases, she choose a different path and attended law school at the Universityof Missouri- Kansas City. While in school she was an Editor for The UrbanLawyer Law Journal and authored an article for publication, was on the DeansList, received an American Jurisprudence Award, and was given an Emissary Award for her student leadership. After graduating in2000 Kari practiced law with a multi-state defense firm in both its Kansas Cityand St. Louis offices. This experience gave her firsthand knowledge of thestrategies that insurance companies, and their lawyers, utilize to defend anddeny claims of those that are injured. Kari soon realized her truecalling was to represent people hurt by the negligence and wrongful actions ofothers. She has done the same since 2002. Since that time Kari has used the knowledge she gained as a defense lawyer tohelp her clients in their cases. In September of 2017 Kari and 5 otherlawyers left her old firm together to form OLeary, Shelton, Corrigan,Peterson, Dalton Quillin LLC where they focus on representing clients for a range of injury cases.