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WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE the Litigation Department working out of the firm's Louisville office. He earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law and his B.S. from Western Kentucky University. Joseph Newberg joins the Corporate Department and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group working out of the firm's Louisville office. Newberg earned his J.D. from Duke University School of Law and his B.S. from the University of North Carolina. The law firm of Goldberg Simpson LLC is pleased to announce that Sarah E. Rainey has joined the firm as an associate. Rainey will practice in the areas of Sarah E. Rainey insurance defense and employment law. Rainey is a 2011, magna cum laude, graduate of the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law and a 2008, summa cum laude, graduate of the University of Kentucky. Located in Paducah, the Law Office of Jeffery P. Alford, PLLC, is pleased to announce that Ashley R. Wiggins has joined the firm as an associate. Wiggins received Ashley R. Wiggins her B.A. (2007) and J.D. (2011) from the University of Louisville. She represented her law school class as the student bar association vice-president. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a law clerk for McCracken Circuit Judge Craig Z. Clymer. Ben Carter (bencarterlaw.com) is hanging out a shingle. He knows a little bit about foreclosure, a little more about the Kentucky Consumer Protection Act, and an unfortunate amount about constitutional law, election law, and jurisprudence. He also knows a lot about Palauan criminal law, which really comes in handy in Kentucky. He represents consumers and people injured by the negligence of others. He's planning the Commonwealth Justice Conference for attorneys who want to use their law degrees to improve Kentucky through impact litigation, focused legislation, and grassroots organization. That conference will be in Louisville from August 8–10. Mark your calendars. Contact him at ben@bencarterlaw.com or (502) 509-3231. The law firm of Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC (SKO) announces the opening of an office in Evansville, Ind. The new office is the seventh for the firm and the second location outside Kentucky. The Evansville office is expected to open the first week of February. SKO opened an office just outside Pittsburgh earlier this year; it was the first out-of-state location for the firm. With more than 145 attorneys collectively, SKO offers vast services from business and finance litigation to regulatory and administrative law. The firm will focus on mineral and environmental practice at the Evansville location. SKO has offices in Louisville, Lexington, Henderson, Frankfort and Morganfield, Ky., as well as Greater Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Kentucky's number one graduate, H. Derek Hall, joined Frost Brown Todd's Lexington office. Not only was Hall number one in his class at the University of Kentucky College of Law, he is the first generation in his family to graduate from college. Hall also received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky in political science and economics. Having an interest in how businesses are managed and behind-the-scenes strategies, Hall found a natural fit in the firm's Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group, where he will also be working closely with Patricia Burgess, Martin Tucker and Adam Kegley, each of whom have significant experience in bankruptcy, creditor's rights, and financial restructuring with the firm. Hall is involved in local politics and serves on the executive committee of the Republican Party of Fayette County. He has also served as a special assistant to former Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson. Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L. (FI&C;) is proud to announce that Ken LeCroix recently passed the Kentucky Bar exam. LeCroix is involved in various aspects of Ken LeCroix FI&C;'s complex business and commercial litigation practice, including antitrust, privacy, false advertising and product liability matters. LeCroix is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he served as a citations editor of the University of Cincinnati Law Review. LeCroix received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University and doublemajored in mathematics and Spanish. LeCroix is a Barrister in the Potter Stewart Inn of Court, as well as a member of the American, National Asian Pacific American, Ohio State, Kentucky and the Cincinnati Bar associations. Middleton Reutlinger is pleased to announce that Joseph P. Morris has joined the firm. Morris practices in the firm's intellectual property practice group, concentrating on intellectual property and Joseph P. Morris intellectual property litigation. Morris received his law degree from the Chicago Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology in 2012. He received a Master of Engineering degree in computer engineering and computer science with a concentration in bioinformatics from the University of Louisville, Speed Scientific School in 2009 and a B.S.E. in computer engineering and computer science from the University of Louisville, Speed Scientific School in 2006. Boswell Sims & Vasseur, PLLC, Paducah, is pleased to announce that attorney Brandi Melvin has joined the firm as an associate. Melvin received her B.A. in political science from the University of Kentucky in 2007, her M.A. in Political Science from the University of Louisville in 2009, and January 2013 Bench & Bar 41