Bench & Bar

JAN 2013

The Bench & Bar magazine is published to provide members of the KBA with information that will increase their knowledge of the law, improve the practice of law, and assist in improving the quality of legal services for the citizenry.

Issue link: https://kentuckybenchandbar.epubxp.com/i/104896

Contents of this Issue

Navigation

Page 41 of 59

WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE Crocker Law would like to welcome their new attorney, Sam Porter, to their firm. Porter practices in the areas of personal injury litigation, workers compensation, and general business litigation. Porter originally hails from Georgetown. He graduated from Georgetown College, magna cum laude, in 2005, where he majored in economics and political science. In 2009, he graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law. There he competed as an advocate for UKÕs competitive trial team, and served as president of the Trial Advocacy Board. Roger Braden is pleased to announce the opening of the law firm of Braden and Associates, LLC. The central office of Braden and Associates, LLC, is located at 7000 Houston Road, Suite 36, Florence, KY 41042. Braden and Associates, LLC, also has offices located at 130 Dudley Road, Suite 180 in Edgewood, KY 41017 and 29 East Center Street, Madisonville, KY 42431. Braden is joined by Luann Devine. Devine is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati Law School where she was recognized as Order of the Coif. Her past experience has included being a partner at the law firms of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald and Sutton Rankin Law, PLC. The firm can be contacted directly at (859) 414-0777, by facsimile at (859) 993-0350, toll free at (877) 808-9553, and in Madisonville at (270) 875-4335. Braden and Associates, LLC, concentrates its practice in litigation involving personal injury, medical malpractice, defective products, employment and labor issues and disability cases. Frost Brown Todd welcomes three new associates to the Louisville office: Brandon W. Gearhart, Elizabeth S. (Bess) Riney, and Allison E. Walker. They also join with new associate, Katherine L. Huddleston who joined early September. Brandon Gearhart has joined the Labor and Employment Practice Group. While receiving his law degree from the University of Michigan, Gearhart became a Fulbright Fellow and spent a year in Korea teaching English as a second language. Bess Riney joined the Lending and Commercial Services Practice Group. Riney was a former summer associate with the firm NEW From LawReader Books: "The story of a young lawyer's romance among the ruins of an Appalachian mining disaster" FORTUNE'S YOKE The first novel by Retired Kentucky Judge S.P. Huddleston "You can't put this book down. Huddleston is the new Rudyard Kipling!" - Stan Billingsley Available at: Carmichael's Bookstores in Louisville on Amazon.com - as an e-book and from LawReader Books at 502-732-4617 Also available: "Alice vs. Wonderland", and "A Parliament of Owls" LawReader Books - 314 7th St. - Carrollton, KY 41008 LawReader Books - a Division of LawReader. Inc. 40 Bench & Bar January 2013 in 2011. She pursued a joint J.D./M.B.A. degree from the University of Kentucky and received her undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Centre College in 2008 where she majored in financial economics and Spanish. Allison Walker joined the Product Liability Litigation Practice Group. She graduated, cum laude, from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. While in law school, she served as the articles editor for the Indiana Law Journal and received the honor of Phi Beta Kappa. Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce that eight associates have joined the firm: Lesley S. Bilby, Jerrad T. Howard, Kristeena L. Johnson, Marisa E. Main, Ryan A. Morrison, Joseph A. Newberg, Patrick D. Schach and Christen M. Steimle. Christen Steimle joins the Litigation Department working out of the firmÕs Cincinnati office. She earned her J.D. from Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law and her B.S. from Wright State University. Kristeena Johnson joins the Litigation Department and Environmental Practice Group working out of the firmÕs Lexington office. Johnson earned her J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law and her B.A. from Eastern Kentucky University. Patrick Schach joins the Litigation Department working out of the firmÕs Lexington office. He earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law and his B.S. from Auburn University. Lesley Bilby joins the Labor & Employment Department working out of the firmÕs Louisville office. She earned her J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law and her B.A. from Centre College. Jerrad Howard joins the Corporate Department and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group working out of the firmÕs Louisville office. Howard earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law and his B.S. from the University of Kentucky. Marisa Main joins the Litigation Department working out of the firmÕs Louisville office. She earned her J.D. from the University of Akron School of Law and her B.A. from The Ohio State University. Ryan Morrison joins

Articles in this issue

Links on this page

Archives of this issue

view archives of Bench & Bar - JAN 2013