Your questions.
The truth, plainly.
No fine print. No spin. Here is what people ask us most — and the honest answer to each.
Yes. At Reque Law Firm, PLLC, a dedicated team of bilingual attorneys, paralegals, and staff speak Spanish. We understand that many in Kentucky are part of the Hispanic community, and we built our firm to reflect the communities we serve. Our bilingual team is committed to communicating with clients in the language they feel most comfortable using. Ver esta página en Español →
A contingency fee is a payment arrangement where a personal injury lawyer only charges a fee if the case is successful. The client pays no upfront legal fees and is not required to pay the attorney anything if the case is lost. If the case is successful, the fee comes as a percentage of the recovery. At Reque Law Firm, PLLC, we take every personal injury case on a contingency fee basis. We never send our clients a bill, and we only get paid at the end of the case, when we win. We believe this arrangement gives everyone access to high-quality legal representation, regardless of their ability to pay.
The real answer is that it depends — on the state where the accident occurred, how the insurance company handles the case, the extent of your injuries and the treatment you need to recover, and whether or not you file a lawsuit. At Reque Law Firm, PLLC, we have found that in Kentucky, when you file a claim in court, it may take two to three years (or even longer) from the date you file a lawsuit until you reach a trial or settlement. That is a long time. But a quick settlement can mean accepting an offer far below what your actual needs are. It is vitally important to take the time to fully understand your injuries, accurately value your damages, and fight for full and fair compensation.
This, too, depends. In personal injury cases, value is based on two important factors: the extent of your damages and the available insurance coverage. No one can tell you the value of your damages without a full understanding of your situation. Your attorney must review medical records and speak to medical experts, learn how the injury will affect your life moving forward — including your ability to earn income — and identify who was responsible and what insurance coverage and limits apply. Only at that point can an attorney accurately estimate the value of your case. Be cautious of anyone who promises you a number before doing that work.
Our attorneys are trial lawyers, and that makes all the difference. While many firms focus on quick settlements, we have the experience, resources, and skill to take a case all the way to trial. Our track record speaks for itself. When you hire us, you don’t just get a lawyer — you get a team of attorneys committed to achieving the best possible outcome. Every client receives the attention, focus, and effort they deserve, and we never hesitate to fight for maximum results in court when necessary. We are trained in and follow the Gerry Spence Method, and if it takes even more firepower to win, we will partner with the best trial warriors in the country to stand with us for you.
The Gerry Spence Method is a discipline of advocacy built on telling the true, human story of what happened — not performing at a jury, but making twelve strangers feel your experience as their own. It is the difference between a jury that follows your logic and a jury that refuses to let you lose. Our lead attorney is trained in the Gerry Spence Method, and we bring it to every negotiation and every courtroom. It is a large part of why insurance companies and prosecutors take our files seriously.
Not necessarily — many cases resolve through settlement or negotiated agreements. But here is the honest truth: the firms that are genuinely prepared to go to trial are the ones that get the best settlements. When the other side knows we will try the case, they treat it differently. We prepare every case as if it is going in front of a jury, precisely because that preparation is what gives you leverage whether or not you ever see a courtroom.
Nothing. The initial call is free, and on personal injury cases you pay nothing up front and nothing at all unless we win. When you call, you talk to a lawyer — not a screener, not a paralegal. We will listen, and we will tell you the truth about your options, including whether you need us at all.
What Sets Us Apart
You cannot tell a good lawyer from a bad one on the internet.
That is the honest problem, and everybody in this profession knows it. Reviews can be bought. Ratings can be paid for. A firm with a marketing budget can look like the best in the state and have never tried a case. There is no fact-checker standing between you and any of it — and you are being asked to make one of the more consequential decisions of your life off a search result.
So, we are not going to try to win that contest. We would rather just meet you.
Come sit down with us.
There is no form to fill out first and nothing you need to bring. Come tell us what happened, in your own words, taking as long as you need. Ask us anything — what we think is wrong with your case, what we would do first, how many cases we have actually tried. You will learn more in twenty minutes in a room than in a week of reading pages like this one.
You are not obligated to hire us. If you walk out and decide we are not the right people, that is a good outcome too — you will know more than you did when you walked in.
And if you cannot get here, because you are working or hurt or your days are already spoken for, then call. We will come to you, or we will earn it over the phone.
Here is who you would be talking to.
People who spent their careers in service before they ever hung out a shingle. There is a badge in our history, and an oath to the Constitution that came with it. There are years spent as prosecutors, carrying the state’s burden of proof. There are years inside an insurance company, calculating the kind of offer you are about to be made. And there are years on the other side of the table as defense lawyers, with somebody’s son or mother or livelihood in our hands.
Those are not line items on a résumé. They are how we learned what this system does to a family when it goes wrong — and what it means to be the person standing between the two.
We are a family firm. We know what it is to worry about our own.
And we know where you are right now.
Whether you are hurt or you are accused, it is the same few things. You are not sleeping. You do not know how bad this is going to get. And you have the feeling that everyone involved understands the process except you.
That ends when someone sits down and explains it to you honestly — including the parts you did not want to hear, because nobody makes a good decision on a comfortable lie.
There is only one story on this website that matters, and it is not ours.
It is yours. That is the whole of what we do. We listen until we understand what actually happened to you — not the version that fits on a form, and not the version that sounds good, but the real one, including the parts that are hard to say. Then we stand up and tell it, plainly, to the people who decide.
Most people never get that. They get a claim number, an offer, and a lawyer who never asked them a real question. What they wanted was for somebody to be in their corner.
That is the job as we understand it. Not to process your case. To stand next to you.
We are not new to caring.
The years behind us taught us how the machinery works from every side. What they did not teach us is the thing we brought with us — a stubborn belief that people are worth fighting for. That someone injured can be made whole enough to go on. That someone accused is more than the worst day of their life. That a person who has been knocked down can still build something.
We believe that about the people who walk through our door, before we know anything else about them.
We are trial lawyers, and we are not fancy.
Most firms are built to settle. We are built to try cases, and the difference shows up long before a courtroom does — in how carefully the case is prepared, in what the carrier offers, and in whether the other side believes we will actually go.
But no badges, no slogans, no promises we cannot keep. We take fewer cases so we can know yours. We answer the phone. When a case needs more than any one firm should carry alone, we bring in trial lawyers from across the country to stand with us, because your case is not the place for anyone’s ego.
We welcome the hard ones. Come tell us what happened.
