Park Chenaur Injury Lawyers

Focus and practice areas

Personal injury is the entire focus of the work, and the range within that focus is broad. The firm groups its cases around how an injury happens, and its own pages name car, truck, and motorcycle accidents alongside pedestrian and bicycle collisions. Rideshare crashes, slip and fall injuries, dog bites, and medical malpractice appear on the same list. Brain and spinal cord injuries, nursing home abuse, workplace accidents, and wrongful death round it out.

Traffic and vehicle cases

Road collisions form the core of most injury practices, and this one names every common type. A car accident claim usually opens with a police report, medical records, and a filing with the at-fault driver's insurer. It then moves to a demand, and when the insurer and the client cannot agree, to a lawsuit. Truck and motorcycle cases follow a similar path, though truck claims often involve a commercial carrier and its own insurer, which raises the stakes and the paperwork.

Washington uses a comparative fault rule, so a claimant can recover even when partly to blame, with the award reduced by their share of fault. That rule shapes how these cases are argued, since each side works to fix the percentage of blame. The state also sets a three-year window for most injury claims, which is why early filing and record-gathering matter. Rideshare and pedestrian cases add a layer, because more than one insurance policy can apply to a single crash.

Premises, animals, and medical cases

Slip and fall claims turn on who controlled the property and what they knew about the hazard. A wet floor, a broken stair, or an unlit walkway can each support a claim, and the proof often rests on maintenance records and witness accounts. Dog bite matters in Washington run under a state statute that holds owners liable for bites in public places or on lawful private visits, so the animal's history and the location of the bite carry weight.

Medical malpractice claims move more slowly than most. They need an expert review of the standard of care before a court will take them seriously, and that review takes time and money to assemble. A claimant has to show that a provider fell below accepted practice and that the failure caused harm. Cases of this kind reward patience and careful record work, which is why many injury firms treat them as a separate track.

The most serious matters

Wrongful death, catastrophic injury, brain and spinal cord damage, and nursing home abuse sit at the heavy end of the list. These matters involve larger damages, more medical proof, and longer timelines. A wrongful death claim also brings its own class of eligible family members and a distinct measure of loss. The mix of routine collisions and these heavier cases on one list marks a practice that handles both ends of the severity range.

How the team is built

The firm was co-founded in 1999 by Rick Park and Angel Chenaur, both listed as founding partners. Rick Park is a personal injury attorney based at the Federal Way office. The firm says he has handled thousands of personal injury cases, including both minor injuries and catastrophic ones. Angel Chenaur is the co-founder and works in legal research and writing, and the firm says she has also handled thousands of injury cases tied to another party's negligence.

Beyond the two founders, the roster lists nine more attorneys: Marvin M. Lee, Liandra Tiller, Ewan Cameron, Courtney Hansen, John Feldmann, John Terpin, Jalen Garza, Ann-Marie Evans, and Andrew Kim. The site gives these names in its navigation without individual biographies. That puts eleven lawyers in total across the three offices, which is a mid-sized bench for a regional injury firm.

As a reviewer, I read the split between Rick Park's case volume and Angel Chenaur's research and writing role as a clear division of labor. One partner carries the claim and trial work, and the other supports the legal argument behind it. A firm that can separate courtroom load from brief-writing has room to assign work by each lawyer's strength, which tends to help on the harder files. The firm's pages describe both founder roles directly.

Where the firm works

Three offices anchor the practice, in Federal Way, Tacoma, and Everett. Federal Way holds the office where Rick Park is based, and it sits in south King County. Tacoma extends the firm's reach south into Pierce County, and Everett carries it north into Snohomish County. All three sit in western Washington, inside the Puget Sound band, within reach of the same superior courts a local injury client would use.

A three-office footprint gives clients more than one place to meet a lawyer in person, which still counts in injury work where records and photographs pass hands. It also spreads the firm across three county court systems, each with its own filing habits and judges. Local familiarity of that kind is hard to see from a website, yet the office map is a fair proxy for where the firm appears most often.

Language access

Language is a plain feature of how the firm reaches clients. It offers services in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, and Korean. That set maps closely to the immigrant communities of King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties, where those languages are widely spoken at home. For an injury client working through medical bills and insurance adjusters, handling a case in a first language removes a real barrier and lowers the chance of a costly misunderstanding.

How the firm takes on cases

The firm works on a contingency basis for its injury cases. It offers a free initial consultation, and under the contingency model the fee comes out of any recovery the firm obtains for the client. This is the standard arrangement in personal injury, and it lets a claimant begin without money up front. It also ties the firm's payment to the outcome, which puts both sides on the same side of the result.

A consultation carries a second purpose. It gives the firm a chance to screen a matter before taking it, since injury claims vary in strength and in the time they demand.For the client, that first meeting is a way to learn whether a claim has a realistic path. Both sides use the consultation to decide whether the case fits.

How cases resolve

Most injury claims settle before trial, and the contingency model works within that reality. A firm builds the medical and liability record, sends a demand, and negotiates with the insurer, then files suit when the numbers stay apart. Filing a lawsuit keeps the talks open, since many cases settle during discovery or close to the trial date. The credible prospect of trial, backed by a firm that belongs to a trial lawyers association, is often what moves an insurer's offer.

Memberships and standing

Two memberships appear on the firm's pages: the Washington State Bar Association and the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. Bar membership is the baseline requirement to practice law in the state, and it is checkable through the bar's own records. Membership in the trial lawyers association points toward a practice that prepares matters for court as well as for settlement. Both credentials can be confirmed through the associations themselves.

What the record shows

Longevity is the clearest fact the firm offers. It has represented injury clients since 1999, which is more than 25 years of continuous practice under the same founding partners. A firm that has run for a quarter century in one field has time to build working relationships with local courts, insurers, and medical providers. That kind of standing builds quietly over years, and it shapes how quickly a firm can move a claim.

The firm's public description rests on scope. The practice areas, the three offices, the five languages, and the 1999 start date are all facts a reader can confirm from outside the firm's own site. In my opinion, that gives a reader concrete facts to weigh at the outset of a search. Since 1999, Rick Park and Angel Chenaur have led the firm across its offices in Federal Way, Tacoma, and Everett.