www.loubar.org 20 Louisville Bar Briefs Members on the move Vince Aprile, who practices law with Lynch, Cox, Gilman and Goodman, P.S.C., in Louisville, was recently re-appointed as a co-chair of the National Association of Criminal Defense Law- yers’ (NACDL) Ethics Advisory Committee. Aprile has been in this position since his appointment in 2010. The Ethics Advisory Committee gives NACDL members advice and counsel, alerting them to pitfalls, conflicts of interest and potential violations of the rules of ethics and their Sixth Amendment duties. Aprile is a past member of the Board of Directors of NACDL (1983-85). O’Bryan, Brown & Toner, PLLC is pleased to welcome attorneys Alexander Drury and Phillip Burress to its Louisville office. Drury focuses his practice on matters of insurance defense litiga- tion with an emphasis on medical malpractice cases. He earned his law degree from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude. While in law school, Drury served as an articles editor for the Kentucky Law Journal and as an officer for the Federalist Society and Christian Legal Society. Burress focuses his practice on matters involving insurance defense litigation and medical malpractice law. He earned his law degree from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law. While in law school, Burress served as staff editor of the Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agri- culture, & Natural Resources Law and as an ethics committee member of the Moot Court Board. Stites & Harbison, PLLC announces the addition Collin M. Aycock and Jordan Butler to its Louisville office. Aycock is a member of the Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group. He earned his J.D. from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, summa cum laude, in 2025. In law school, Aycock was a research assistant for Professor Lars Smith and president of the Technology Law Society. He served as the senior articles editor for the University of Louisville Law Review, Volume 63, and published a note entitled “A World Post- Warhol: What Is Fair use in Computer Code?” Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, he was a summer associate for the firm in 2023 and 2024. He also was a legal extern for the University of Louisville Office of Research and Innovation, 2024-25, and a law clerk for Caldwell Tanks, Inc., spring of 2024. He is admit- ted to practice in Kentucky. Butler is a member of the Torts & Insurance Practice Service Group. She earned her J.D. from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, magna cum laude, in 2025. While in law school, she was vice president of the Black Law Students Association and a peer mentor for the First-Generation Peer Mentor Connection. Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, Butler was a student attorney for the University of Louisville Law Eviction Defense Clinic, spring of 2025, and a student mediator for the University of Louisville Law Mediation Clinic, 2024-25. She also was a legal intern for Beam Suntory, Inc., in 2023 and a summer associate for Stites & Harbison in 2023 and 2024. She is admitted to practice in Kentucky. n Aprile www.smith-hoskins.com (502) 899-5220 [email protected] Effective and compassionate resolution of personal injury matters. Anna S. Rueff, Mediator Aycock Burress Butler Drury William R. “Pat” Patterson, Jr., 88, of Louisville passed away peace- fully on Saturday, November 1, with his children by his side. Pat graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1959 and went on to obtain his law degree from the University of Kentucky Law School in 1962 (after serving in the US Army, Fort Knox, KY, as a 1st Lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General Corp). He began his legal career in 1963 as a partner in the firm Denney, Landrum, White & Patterson of Lexington. In 1985, he moved to Louisville and opened a branch office of his Lexington firm (then known as Landrum, Shouse & Patterson), but he left the firm in 1988 as his practice shifted more toward the plaintiff’s side of the civil practice arena. Pat retired from active practice in December 2007 to become a full-time mediator with the Retired Judges Mediation & Arbitration Service. Pat’s 45-year litigation experience throughout state and federal courts involved more than 100 jury trials to verdict and numerous other non-jury matters to resolution. He was elected to Fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1983 and was listed in Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America. Pat was a member of the Louisville and Kentucky Bar Associations; Charter Life Fellow, Ken- tucky Bar Foundation; past member, Board of Trustees for the Kentucky IOLTA Fund; Original Board Member of the Kentucky Bar Association continuing legal education commission; past director for the Louisville Bar Foundation; past member, American Board of Trial Advocates; Past Master of the Louis D. Brandeis American Inns of Court; Past member of the Kentucky Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Judicial Nomination Commission from 1980-1990; a certified civil trial advocate for the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and Founding Member of St. Ives Journal Club. Aside from his law career, Pat was a member of the United States Parachute Association, holding a USPA advanced license, Class C. From August 1977 to July 1986, he made more than 605 recorded free-fall parachute jumps. He also holds a pilot’s license, single-engine, instrument- rated and a motorcycle license, having traveled extensively throughout the United States. n IN M EMO R IA M IN M EMO R IA M Joseph White of Louisville passed away November 2. Joe loved his family and friends, his sweet dogs, his UofL teams, horse racing, country music, life on the water and most of all being Irish. Joe received his B.A. in Liberal Arts from University of Louisville, and his J.D. from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. He was admitted to practice law in Kentucky, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Seventh Circuit and Supreme Court of the United States. Professional memberships and affiliations include the Kentucky Bar Association, Louisville Bar Association, Kentucky Justice Association (formally the Kentucky Academy of Trial At- torneys) and the American Trial Lawyers Association. Honors and recognitions include The Best Lawyers in America, Kentucky Super Lawyers, Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Kentucky, American Trial Lawyers Association, Louisville Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Kentucky and a Life Fellow, Kentucky Bar Association. Professional activities include Board of Governors, Kentucky Justice Association (formally the Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys); president, Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys (now Kentucky Justice Association); Board of Directors, Louisville Bar Association; Louis D. Brandeis American Inn of Court (Master); American Board of Trial Advocates; chair, Kentucky Bar Association Lawyer Assistance Commission; Board of Governors, Kentucky Bar Associa- tion; UofL School of Law Class Director for the Chairman; Citizens for Better Judges, Attorney Steering Committee; chairman, Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys CLE Committee. n
