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About Austin Pollard
Austin Pollard is an Associate Attorney at Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers, focusing exclusively on personal injury law. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he grew up in the South End of Louisville before moving to Bowling Green, where he graduated from high school in 2017. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Louisville with honors in 2021 and his J.D. from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law with honors in 2024. The loss of his stepmother in a vehicle-pedestrian accident during law school drew him to plaintiff's work.
He joined the firm as a law clerk in 2023 and became an associate after passing the Kentucky bar exam. He earned a CALI Award in Workers' Compensation Law and a place on the Dean's List during law school. His practice covers motor vehicle accidents, commercial vehicle cases, and wrongful death claims.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers
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Ben Crump, alongside Louisville co-counsel Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker, settled the wrongful-death lawsuit brought by Breonna Taylor's mother against the City of Louisville for $12 million, the largest police-misconduct payout in the city's history, paired with a package of policing reforms the family made a non-negotiable condition of the deal.
Jackson County, Indiana agreed to pay $5.6 million to the family of Ta'Neasha Chappell, a 23-year-old Louisville mother who died in jail custody in July 2021 after nearly 20 hours of ignored medical pleas.
The Rowan County Board of Education agreed to a $3 million settlement in February 2026 after a coach repeatedly abused a student while administrators ignored at least eight separate reports of the conduct, in what attorneys described as the largest single-victim school sexual abuse settlement in Kentucky history.
Louisville Metro Government paid $1.25 million to the family of Darnell Wicker, a 57-year-old man shot 14 times by LMPD officers during a 2016 domestic-disturbance call in which he was holding a tree saw.
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