Louisville, KY Lawyers

Corporate and Transactional Law

400 W. Market St., Suite 3200, Louisville, KY 40202

Ed is a business lawyer and serves as Chairman-Emeritus and Co-Chairman of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice. He also works with emerging companies on venture capital transactions. Elected at the age of 33 in 1977, Ed served for 23 years as managing member of the former Brown, Todd & Heyburn PLLC. He served as co-managing member of Frost Brown Todd for 8 years through December 31, 2008. In 1977, the firm had 38 attorneys with offices in Lexington and Louisville. Today, the firm has more than 500 attorneys and 14 offices in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Ed and his wife, Mary F., have two children, Mary Jane Kirkpatrick and Clinton Glasscock; and two granddaughters, Mary Elizabeth Kirkpatrick and Sarah Fordyce Kirkpatrick. His hobbies include reading, golf, thoroughbred racing, the arts, and sporting events.

Personal Injury Law

1601 Business Center Ct, Louisville, KY 40299, USA

For over 30 years, attorney Darryl Isaacs has been fighting for justice and fair compensation for his clients as “The Hammer,” and that nickname is for good reason. He smashes through delays, red tape, and all the sneaky tactics that insurance companies use to keep from paying what their clients deserve. But he’s also “The Hammer” because he can help you fix your life after an injury; he gets you back on the road to health and recovery after an injury, back to work, and back to living the life you had before your injury derailed everything.

Lawyers Professional Liability

1303 Clear Springs Trce, Louisville, KY 40223, USA

Lawyers Professional Liability

Personal Injury Law

161 St Matthews Ave, Suite 7, Louisville, KY 40207

Mr. Gorski is a graduate of Trinity High School and the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. He has spent nearly two decades representing the citizens of Kentucky in a wide variety of legal matters. Jeff is licensed to practice in all state and federal courts in Kentucky as well as the Southern District of Indiana. In his injury practice, Jeff has recovered millions of dollars for injured people in the Kentuckiana area. His bankruptcy practice helps individuals that have encountered financial difficulties. In his free time, Jeff enjoys spending time with his wife and three children.

Personal Injury Law

1139 South 4th Street, Louisville, KY 40203

Larry Forman is a distinguished attorney recognized as one of the Nation’s Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel since 2015. He has earned recognition as a Super Lawyers Rising Star annually from 2016 through 2027 and has been honored as a Top Lawyer by both Louisville Magazine and TOPS Louisville Magazine numerous times. In 2019, he was inducted as a Life Member of the exclusive Trial Masters club and named an Associate Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society, Order of Juris (having tried over 50 cases to verdict). Mr. Forman is also a member of the Trial Law Institute and Diversity Law Institute. Mr. Forman brings years of criminal-defense trial experience to every injury case. Now known prominently for his civil practice, he focuses his practice exclusively on personal injury law at Forman & Associates, a Louisville personal injury law firm. He brings the same relentless, tactically superior approach that secured numerous criminal acquittals to maximizing verdicts and settlements for victims of car accidents and severe injuries. To maintain absolute strategic dominance over insurance companies and opposing counsel, he actively expands his firm with specialized personnel, including dedicated senior pre-litigation personal injury paralegals, ensuring meticulous, high-level advocacy from the moment a case is accepted. Mr. Forman’s deep understanding of high-stakes litigation stems from years of working alongside judges, prosecutors, and other defense attorneys, giving him a comprehensive perspective on the legal battlefield. By dedicating his firm entirely to personal injury and car crash cases, he approaches every lawsuit with an ironclad commitment to dictating the terms of engagement. He embodies Sun Tzu’s principle that a strong defense requires a powerful offense, striking hard against negligent parties rather than merely mitigating his clients’ losses. Beyond the courtroom, Mr. Forman is deeply engaged in his community. He frequently judges Mock Trial and Appellate Argument Competitions, including the National Mock Trial High School Competition, the Law School First-Year Oral Argument Competition, and the Pirtle-Washer Oral Advocacy Competition. He has delivered presentations on handling police encounters to organizations like the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and the National Association of Women in Construction. Mr. Forman is also a dynamic content creator, running a popular YouTube channel which has garnered over 500,000,000 views. Additionally, he serves as an independent legal journalist and has provided courtroom coverage of major trials, including Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard, the Trial of the Murder of Kristin Smart, the first Danny Masterson trial, the second Harvey Weinstein trial, South Carolina v. Alec Murdaugh, both Karen Read trials in Massachusetts, and New Mexico v. Alec Baldwin. In his free time, Mr. Forman enjoys spending time with his fiancée, Chandler, their two cats, Guylian and Zinnia, rock climbing, and watching movies.

Civil Litigation

2301 River Road, Suite 300, Louisville, KY 40206

For over 25 years, he has gained extensive experience in his representation of clients in complex litigation and has served in, or been appointed to, a leadership capacity for some of the nation’s largest class actions. Starting in 1992, Mr. Gray filed his first class action, which was a lawsuit involving 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for wrongful strip search in the case known as Eddleman v. Jefferson County Jail. Mr. Gray acted as co-lead counsel in this litigation, which resulted in a $12 million settlement. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Gray also served as co-lead counsel in a similar case involving 42 U.S.C. § 1983, known as Armstrong vs. Franklin County Jail. This case was resolved by settlement of $6 million. Since the early 1990s, Mr. Gray has been involved with numerous complex litigation cases including, but not limited to, class action lawsuits involving anti-trust, consumer fraud, conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty, contract, liability, negligence, and various other restraints of trade actions. Mr. Gray has continued to demonstrate his ability to work with large groups of litigants and counsel of record, who may all have varied interests, with the objective to effectively aid the Court and protect the interests of plaintiffs by litigating the case in a productive, efficient, and cooperative manner.

Civil Litigation

2525 Bardstown Road, Suite 101, Louisville, KY 40205

Matthew W. Stein is a personal injury and wrongful death attorney in Louisville and the founding partner of Stein Whatley Astorino, PLLC. He represents clients throughout Kentucky, with a practice that includes injuries from road collisions, medical negligence, falls and industrial accidents. His litigation work also covers disputes over contracts, business torts and other business claims. Stein’s education began outside the law: he studied agriculture at the University of Kentucky, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1985. He was also a football letterman for the Wildcats. At the University of Louisville’s Brandeis School of Law, he earned his law degree in 1989. Kentucky admitted him to the bar that same year. Two certifications appear in his National Board of Trial Advocacy directory entry: Civil Trial Law, held since 2004, and Civil Practice Advocacy, held since 2012. The firm’s biography lists him as a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, as well as a member of the Diversity Law Institute and the Trial Law Institute. In 2007, he presented “How to Present your Case at Trial” for the National Business Institute. Within his injury practice, Stein represents clients in cases involving cars, motorcycles, large trucks and buses. His NBTA biography also identifies nursing home abuse and neglect, dog bites and job-site accidents among the matters on which he focuses the firm’s litigation work.

Civil Litigation

730 W. Main Street, Suite 400, Louisville, KY 40202

Rebecca Schupbach has been a practicing attorney for 32 years, with substantial experience in the defense of product liability, toxic tort, legal and medical malpractice, trucking accident cases, and general personal injury litigation. Rebecca has obtained defense verdicts and favorable appellate decisions for her clients in a significant number of cases. She has also advised corporate clients on a variety of insurance, health and safety, environmental, labeling and regulatory matters (OSHA, FDA, BATF/TTB and CPSC) and has experience defending litigation involving ERISA benefits.

Corporate and Transactional Law

2820 Riedling Drive, Louisville, KY 40206

Medical Malpractice Law

13113 Eastpoint Park Blvd, Louisville, KY 40223, USA

Ron Wilt is a highly rated Kentucky attorney who limits his practice to medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, and personal injury cases. Until 2007, Ron practiced medical malpractice defense on behalf of insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, and nursing homes throughout Kentucky. Attorney Ron Wilt brings extensive experience and a distinct perspective to each client’s case. Having worked directly with the insurance companies that make decisions in medical malpractice claims for over fifteen years, he knows how to maximize the value of a settlement and, if necessary, win in court. Areas of Practice: Medical malpractice (60 percent), Birth injury (20 percent), Personal injury (10 percent), Brain injury (10 percent). Bar Admissions: Kentucky, 1994, Ohio, 1992, West Virginia, 2007.

International Law

500 W Jefferson St suite 2100, Louisville, KY 40202, USA

Robert Brown advises on trade, investments, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for U.S. companies and foreign companies operating in the U.S., including manufacturing, distribution, sales, retail and wholesale operations. He has worked closely with companies as an investment banker and attorney, serving both in-house and as an outside advisor in Louisville, London, New York City, Tokyo, San Francisco and San Diego. Robert is admitted as an attorney in New York, Washington, D.C., California and Kentucky, and is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and in Hong Kong. From 1991-1993 he was admitted as a foreign lawyer in Japan. He has two PhD. degrees. The first was from Cambridge University and studied Japanese privatization, while the second one was from The London School of Economics and Political Science and dealt with Indonesian legal reforms and creditor relations. He also has a Masters degree from Jochi University in Tokyo, and an Advanced Accounting Certificate from Bellarmine University. Recently, he completed an LL.M in international trade and development from the University of London. During three years of law school, he earned J.D., M.B.A. and Masters Degrees from the University of Louisville. Robert has taught international transaction courses at the law schools of University of California Berkeley, University of San Francisco and University of Louisville, as well as accounting, business, economic and finance courses at the school of business of Bellarmine University, where he served as dean from 2015-16.