• Liquidated almost two million dollars in assets in case of international, locally-based logistics company. Liquidation involved sales of business equipment, vehicles and insurance claims. It also required litigation in approximately 200 adversary proceedings filed against American and international vendors
  • Liquidation of national, locally-based crane supply company that has resulted in significant returns to creditors in amounts exceeding one hundred thousand dollars
  • Liquidation of assets of local physicians and medical practices, requiring significant litigation of preferential transfer and fraudulent conveyance claims
  • Litigated case to verdict that resulted in published opinion on standards for denial of debtor's exemptions in Chapter 7 case

Senior Attorney, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP

2500 PNC Plaza, Louisville, KY (502) 589-5235

September 1996 - October, 2002

Primarily worked in the Employment practice group, defending corporations of all sizes, usually in employment discrimination matters. I participated in several trials and argued two cases before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. My practice also included counseling of HR professionals in various employment matters. I also worked in the commercial litigation section, defending corporations from negligence claims, product liability claims and contract disputes.

Notable Cases:

Successfully litigated and obtained trial verdict in favor of government entity being sued for over two million dollars in negligence case

Drafted appellate briefs and successfully argued and defended trial verdict at Sixth Court of Appeals in employment discrimination case

Drafted appellate briefs and successfully argued before Kentucky Supreme Court for reversal of trial verdict in real estate contract dispute vital to client's development plans

Secured large settlement for former Kentucky prison inmate, who was also amputee, in an ADA case after extensive litigation over ADA claims

EDUCATION

J.D., West Virginia University College of Law Morgantown, WV, May 1996

LECTURES

B.A., Economics, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA, May 1991

EEOC TAPS program on Hot Employment Topics NBI Seminars on Bankruptcy Litigation, BAPCPA National Association of Credit Managers (NACM)

National Association of Credit Managers (NACM)

ADMISSIONS/AFFILIATIONS

Louisville Bar Association

  • Past Chair, Bankruptcy Section
  • Diversity Committee
  • Louisville National Bar Association
  • Past President
  • Mentoring Committee

Alumnus, American Inn of Court

Admitted to: All Kentucky state courts, Western District of Kentucky, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals