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Paul N. Venker, Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice

Staff Report//February 13, 2025//

Paul N. Venker

Paul N. Venker, Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice

Staff Report//February 13, 2025//

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St. Louis

Paul Venker has enjoyed a varied and challenging career beginning as soon as he graduated from law school. He was a member of the Missouri Supreme Court’s research staff and served as a law clerk to then-Chief Justice Robert T. Donnelly. 

In 2016, he helped win a Missouri Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of caps for noneconomic damages for certain medical malpractice and wrongful death cases.

He recently chaired the Freedom Suits Memorial steering committee, which established a memorial recognizing slaves who sued for their freedom in Missouri before the Civil War.

Venker earned his law degree from the University of Missouri in 1980.


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