UNITED STATES
Lawdragon (blog)
June 28, 2020
By Katrina Dewey
It’s in the moments of solitude at the base of a Colorado mountain that you might begin to understand Ray Boucher.
He’s completed The Fourteeners, and many more in tribute to his father upon his death, which became his pact with himself. He lawyers in the most difficult way, as well, with his heart firmly entrenched in every case, every cause.
Guaranteed to cause wreckage. And, if you survive, lead to truth and beauty.
Boucher made his name as a California trial lawyer long before he took on the Mt. Everest of litigation: speaking up for hundreds of individuals who had been molested by priests and stayed silent – often for a lifetime – because of their faith. It was early days in what would become a tidal wave of reform when Boucher started to talk to fellow Catholics about horrific harm the church had allowed, covered up, and then denied. The battles he was required to lead against his own church cut deep, but not as much as did the stories of his clients.
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