About Scott Martin

Have Barbecue, Will Travel

The brochure for the 2001 Kentucky Bar Association convention says it all. Two of the speakers’ photographs are corporate headshots of bland guys wearing gray suits, starched shirts and stiff smiles. Then there’s the picture of Jim Early, who was in Kentucky to speak about ethics. Grinning and wearing an aviator’s head-set in an army Black Hawk helicopter, Early is clearly not thinking about jurisprudence.   Early, 66, limits his legal practice to around 35 hours a week, 40 weeks a year …