17 www.loubar.org May 2024 Members on the move Judge David P. Bowles (Ret.) MEDIATION SERVICES • Probate • Estate JUDICIAL CONDUCT DEFENSE • 14 Years Judicial Experience • 9 Years Judicial Conduct Commission Vaughn Petitt Legal Group, PLLC [email protected] 502-243-9797 Stites & Harbison is pleased to announce that attorneys Edward H. Stopher and Charles H. Stopher have joined the firm’s Louisville office. They are members of the Torts & Insurance Practice Service Group and secondary members of the Business Litiga- tion Service Group. Edward Stopher is Of Counsel with Stites & Harbison. His practice focuses on civil litigation with an emphasis on corporate, insurance, product liability and legal malpractice litigation. Serving as lead counsel in numerous high profile jury trials, he has tried more than 100 civil cases to verdict in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Virginia. His practice includes extensive experience in defending insurance carriers in bad faith claims. Charles Stopher is a Member (Partner) of Stites & Harbison. His civil litigation practice focuses on personal injury, products liability, insurance bad faith, employment, professional liability and breach of contract litigation. Stites & Harbison is pleased to announce that attorneys Thad M. Barnes and Michael Denbow have been appointed to co-chairs the firm’s Business Litigation Service Group. Each attorney will continue their diverse legal practices in business litigation. Both are Members (Partners) of Stites & Harbison in the Louisville office. Barnes is currently chair of the Pretrial Practice & eDiscovery Group and the Lateral Recruiting Committee. He handles litigation across the nation and his practice is focused on complex commercial litigation, intellectual property and health care litigation. Denbow is currently the chair of the White Collar Practice Group. His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense and other government and regulatory matters. He handles matters in federal and state courts throughout the Southeast and represents clients when dealing with such govern- ment entities as the Department of Justice, the FBI, the SEC and the CFPB, among oth- ers. Denbow also routinely represents professional athletes and entertainers in contract negotiations, business advice and litigation matters. The American Board of Criminal Lawyers (ABCL) recently elected Stites & Harbison at- torney Brian Butler as a Fellow, serving as one of only five Fellows in Kentucky. ABCL is an invitation-only legal honorary society for outstanding criminal trial lawyers in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Butler is a Member (Partner) based in Stites & Harbison’s Louisville office and belongs to the Torts & Insurance Practice Group and the Business Litigation Service Group. His practice focuses on a wide variety of litigation matters, including but not limited to white collar criminal defense, criminal defense, product li- ability and general tort defense. He has tried more than 100 jury trials and is intimately familiar with complex federal investigations including those involving corporations and their employees. Butler routinely serves as a legal analyst for Louisville television stations and the Louisville Courier-Journal. Butler received his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1995. n Barnes Pro Bono Assistance Opportunities in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky In July 2018, the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky adopted a pro bono program designed to address the court’s growing need to provide counsel for indigent litigants in certain civil cases. The court is currently seeking additional members of its bar to volunteer to participate in this program. Those admitted to the court’s pro bono panel will join a roster of volunteer attorneys from which the court will make civil case appointments. Appointed counsel will be asked to represent indigent parties in civil litigation after the court has preliminarily evaluated the case and made a determination to seek counsel for the unrepresented indigent party. Counsel may seek reimbursement of allowable expenses up to $1,000. More importantly, they will be providing a valuable service to their client, the court and their community. Members of the bar are invited to volunteer by submitting a Pro Bono Attorney Application which is available on the court’s website at https://www.kywd.uscourts.gov/pro-bono-assis- tance-opportunities-western-district-kentucky. For questions about the Pro Bono Program, please contact Clerk of Court James Vilt by e-mail at [email protected] or at (502) 625-3508. n Butler Denbow C. Stopher E. Stopher ABA Delegate Needed The LBA is seeking a member to serve as our delegate to the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates. This governing, policy-making body is responsible for electing the ABA’s officers and Board of Governors. The chosen delegate will serve a two-year term (2024-2026) and will also serve as a member of the LBA’s Board of Directors. If you are a current member of the ABA, have served in some capacity as a volunteer with the ABA and/or have an active interest in ABA matters and would like serve as the LBA’s ABA Delegate, please send a letter of interest to Kristen Miller at [email protected] no later than May 24th. n What have you been up to lately? What have you been up to lately? Did you know that Members on the Move announcements are a mem- ber perk and FREE of charge?! Let us know what you’ve been up to! Send announcements to Kim Kasey, [email protected].
