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About Trenton Burns
Trenton Burns is an attorney at Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers who came to plaintiff's work after years as a defense attorney. Before joining the firm, he worked for two defense firms handling complex civil litigation, including automotive products liability, common carrier defense, asbestos litigation, municipal liability, and medical malpractice. That background gives him direct knowledge of how insurance companies and corporations build and defend their cases. Trent earned his undergraduate degree from Bellarmine University, where he was a standout member of the school's nationally recognized mock trial program, and his J.D. from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, where he received the highest grade in his class for Trial Practice. His practice at Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers covers motor vehicle crashes, trucking accidents, and personal injury 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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