Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Board certified civil trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy    

Bar/Professional Activity:

• President Elect , of the Kentucky Justice Association
• Member, American Association for Justice
• Member, Louisville Bar Association
• Member, Kentucky Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Co-Instructor with Joseph G. Leibson, Trial Practice Seminar, School of Law, Columbia University, New York, New York, 1980
• "Insurance Salesman-Whose Agents Are They?" Kentucky Bar Association, 1982
• "Medical-Legal Problems of the Office Nurse," Northern Kentucky Nurses Association, Covington, Kentucky, October 1982
• Trial Demonstration-Direct and Cross-Examination of Defendant's Expert in Medical Malpractice, University of Louisville School of Law, June 1986
• "Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Coverage," Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys, April, 1989
• Trial by Jury Mock Trial, Kentucky State Fair, 1989, 1990
• "Making the Best of Bad Medical Records," Louisville Bar Association, April 1991
• "Closing Arguments," December 2001
• "Realities of Medical Malpractice and Medical Malpractice Insurance," University of Louiseville, School of Medicine, April 2004
• "Subrogation After Arkansas Dept. of Health and Human Services vs. Ahlborn," Governmental Affairs & Leadership Convention, Providence, RI, November 2007
• "The Best Case I ever Lost," Indiana Trial Lawyers Seminar, Oct., 2008

Verdicts and Settlements:

• $7.2 million dollar settlement with the Transit River Authority (TARC), 2008
• $824,000 trial verdict involving a contract employment dispute
• $3.5 million dollar settlement on behalf of the estate of a man wrongly mistaken for another by police and who was shot and killed
• $2.15 million dollar settlement on behalf of a patient negligently treated by an impaired physician
• $6 million dollar settlement on behalf of a worker injured in a trucking accident
• $3 million dollar trial verdict for the negligent design of a fork lift
• $6 million dollar settlement for the failure to diagnose and treat Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• $5 million dollar trial verdict against a drug manufacturer
• $10 million dollar settlement against an oil refinery for a worker injured in an explosion,
• $25 million dollar settlement  for victims of clergy sexual assault against the Archdiocese of Louisville

Educational Background:

• Murray State University, B.S. - Business Management