Laraclay Parker

Laraclay is a partner and trial lawyer with Golden Law Office in Lexington, Kentucky. She devotes her practice to fighting corporate wrongdoing in the healthcare system. In 2023 alone, Laraclay has obtained over $20 million in jury verdicts for her clients against national pharmacy chains, regional hospitals, and doctors for harming Kentuckians. Her jury cases have involved charges of records spoliation and deletion of evidence which required significant pretrial deposition and motion practice.

Laraclay is a recognized national speaker on issues relating to electronic medical records preservation, discovery, healthcare organizations, and healthcare fraud. Her cases have been featured in the national news media because they raise complex questions about the deletion and fabrication of medical records and physician ethics. She has been a member of the Super Lawyers Rising Star list since 2021, an honor awarded to just 2.5% of Kentucky attorneys. She is also recognized by the National Trial Lawyers as a Top 40 under 40 Civil Plaintiff Lawyer. She sits on the Executive Board for the American Association of Justice Nursing Home Litigation Group, a national plaintiff attorney organization dedicated to protecting the right to trial by jury.

Philosophy

Laraclay’s legal practice is informed by her background and training. When she passed the bar, her first legal job was at a large regional law firm that only did defense work. She spent two years defending national manufacturing corporations, nursing home chains, and pharmaceutical companies against their own employees, victims of malpractice, and others who had been injured by her clients’ businesses. In 2016, she nearly quit the practice of law rather than continue her defense practice. Instead, she decided to change her whole career to focus exclusively on injured Kentuckians and has never looked back. Laraclay’s inside experience on how large corporations operate from a financial, legal, and ethical perspective helps her expose the harm done to her clients in the courtroom.

Recent Jury Verdicts

September 2023 – $7.5 Million, Fleming County. Jury verdict against Primary Care Physician, Radiologist, and a hospital district due to a missed breast cancer diagnosis which caused the Plaintiff to suffer Stage IV breast cancer.

March 2023 – $14 Million, Perry County. Jury verdict against CVS, Inc. and Rite Aid of Kentucky, Inc., for their role in falsely filling misattributed opioid prescriptions under a doctor’s DEA number.

July 2022 – $3 Million, McCracken County. Jury verdict against regional hospital for failing to diagnose or perform work up of heart attack, and instead discharging the patient who died of a heart attack less than an hour later.

February 2020 – $1 Million, Bath County. Jury verdict against regional food manufacturer that fired Plaintiff from her job based on a false positive drug test, destroying her reputation in her community.

Recent Jury Verdicts

Bar Admission and Education

University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky

J.D. summa cum laude, 2014
Order of the Coif, 2014
Kentucky Law Journal, 2012-2014; Editorial Board, 2013-2014
Publication: 4% Absent = 100% Disaster: Why the Math Doesn’t Add Up on Fixed Attendance Leave Policies Under the FMLA, Kentucky Law Journal, Spring 2014.

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

B.A. cum laude 2009
Sophia University Study Abroad, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
Center for Cross-Cultural Studies Study Abroad, Seville, Spain, 2007

Bar Admissions:

Kentucky, 2014
United States Eastern District of Kentucky
United States Western District of Kentucky
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit