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About Sara Collins
Sara Collins is an attorney from Pikeville, Kentucky, with more than two decades of legal experience. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown College and earned her J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2004, then began her career as a felony prosecutor at the Jefferson County Commonwealth Attorney's Office. In 2012 she moved to complex civil litigation, first on the defense side and later as a plaintiff's attorney in private practice.
She joined Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers in 2021, where her practice focuses on complex litigation, wrongful death, and civil rights claims. She is admitted in Kentucky state courts, the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, the Southern District of Indiana, and the Sixth and Seventh Circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals. She is also a published legal writer and a frequent speaker on domestic violence, sexual abuse, and civil rights.
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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