Education:

Salmon P. Chase College of Law, 1979

Highland Heights, Kentucky

Juris Doctor

Eastern Kentucky University, 1976

Richmond, Kentucky

With Honors

Admitted to Practice:

Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1979

Commonwealth of Georgia, 2008

West Virginia State Bar, 2010

Tennessee State Bar, 2011

Alaska State Bar, 2011

Professional Memberships:

American Bar Association 

Kentucky Bar Association

Pike County Bar Association

Kentucky Defense Counsel, Inc.

Georgia Bar Association 

West Virginia Bar Association

Tennessee Bar Association

Alaska Bar Association

Achievements and Accomplishments:

Member, Board of Directors Chase College Foundation

Recipient of Dean David Short Award for Excellence, 1998-99

(outstanding member of Chase Law Community)

Life Fellow of Kentucky Bar Foundation

Member of Legal Education Conclave for the Kentucky Bar Association

Member of Ad Hoc Committee working on Workers’ Compensation legislation, 1994-1996

Fellow of College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers

Publications & Presentations:

“Kentucky Workers’ Compensation – Disability or Social Security”, Kentucky Bench & Bar, 1998
“Occupational Diseases”, UK/CLE Workers’ Compensation Law in Kentucky, 1991; updated Second Edition, 1996

“Preventative Mine Workers’ Comp-Employer Involvement in Defense of Claims”, Kentucky Coal Journal, 1991

“Federal Black Lung: Is It Becoming a Bureaucratic Las Vegas?”, The Coal Journal, 1994

“Occupational Disease – Six Years Later”, Kentucky Bench & Bar, 1994

“House Bill 928: Solution or Band-Aid for Kentucky Workers’ Compensation, Northern Kentucky Law Review, 1995

“Volume 4, Workers’ Compensation”, Banks-Baldwin’s Kentucky Practice, 1995

“New Workers’ Compensation Laws Rouse New Legal Questions”, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Magazine, 1995
Co-Editor, “Workers’ Compensation Review”, Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys (quarterly review of cases)

UK/CLE 9th Biennial Workers’ Compensation Institute Seminar, Lexington, Kentucky, “Direct and Cross-Examination of Medical Experts – Occupational Disease (Defense)”, 1992

A.T. Massey Coal Company, Inc., Operating Meeting, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, “Workers’ Compensation”, 1993

Counsel on Education in Management Personnel Law Updated 1993, Louisville, Kentucky, “Workers’ Compensation Fraud Alert”, 1993

UK/CLE Conference – Mineral Law, Lexington, Kentucky, “Workers’ Compensation System Developments”, 1993

CompEd, Inc., Workers’ Compensation Seminar, Louisville, Kentucky, “Ethical Consideration in Workers’ Compensation, 1994

Louisville Center for Continuing Legal Education & Symposium of Occupational Pulmonary Disease, Louisville, Kentucky, “Pneumoconiosis – State Lay & Regulations”, 1994

UK/CLE  10th Biennial Workers’ Compensation Institute Seminar, Lexington, KY, “Occupational Disease claims and Testimony of Medical Experts”, 1994

Kentucky Bar Association Annual Convention, “House Bill 928 – Defense Prospective”, 1995

National Business Institute Seminar, Jenny Wiley State Park, Prestonsburg, KY, “Workers’ Compensation in Kentucky”, 1996

Kentucky Mining Institute 57th Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY, “Workers’ Compensation in Kentucky Coal Industry”, 1996

UK/CLE 11th Biennial Workers’ Compensation Institute Seminar, Lexington, KY, “Occupation Disease Claims”, 1996

Sixth Annual Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Seminar presented by GAB Robins North America, Inc., Louisville, KY, “House Bill 1”, 1997

Legislative Research Commission Seminar, Frankfort, KY, “Independent Medical Evaluations – Are they the Final Word”, 1997

Workers’ Compensation Seminar, Jenny Wiley State Park, Prestonsburg, KY, “Kentucky Law Update ‘97”, 1997

Pike County Chamber of Commerce Seminar, Pikeville, KY, “Employment Law”, 1997

Seventh Annual Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Seminar presented by GAB Robins North America, Inc., Louisville, KY, “Statutory Changes in Workers’ Compensation Law/Update on Important Decisions”, 1998

Kentucky Bar Associate Seminar, New Orleans, LA, “Kentucky Workers’ Compensation in 1998”, 1998

Kentucky Bar Association Seminar, Lexington, KY, “A Workers’ Compensation Lawyer’s Life after 12/12/96 (Dead or Alive?) And Review of Independent Medical Evaluations (Are they the Final Word?)”, 1998

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 8th Annual Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Seminar, Lexington, KY, 1998

UK/CLE 12th Biennial Workers’ Compensation Institute Seminar, Lexington, KY, “Case Strategies in Changing Your Practice Under the New Act – Claimant and Defense Views – Occupational Disease and Hearing Loss”, 1998

Kentucky Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section Mid-Winter Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, “Taking a Deposition of the Expert Witness in a Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Claim”, 1998

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 10th Annual Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Seminar, Lexington, KY, “Total Disability Under Kentucky Workers’ Compensation and Benefit Changes”, 2000

Pike County Bar Seminar – Myrtle Beach, SC, Speaker and Organizer, (1989 to present)