Bench & Bar January/February 2025

WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE

Jefferson Circuit Court, spring of 2023. Myers is a member of the business & finance service group. He earned his J.D. from the Vanderbilt University Law School in 2024 and completed the Law & Business Program. He was a Van derbilt Law School ambassador, a representative for the Vanderbilt Law and Business Society, a treasurer of the Vanderbilt Law School Transfer Association and a member of the Investment and Securities Law Club. Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, Myers was a summer associate for the firm in 2023 and a summer law clerk for an Asheville, N.C., firm in 2022. Sain is a member of the business litigation service group. She earned her J.D. from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, magna cum laude , in 2021. Sain was editor-in-chief of the University of Louisville Law Review, Volume 59, and chaired the Student Bar Foundation. Prior to joining the firm, Sain clerked for the Honor able Claria Horn Boom, U.S. District Judge for the Western and Eastern Districts of Kentucky, from 2022-24, and for the Honorable Regina S. Edwards, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Kentucky, from 2021-22. Anderson is a member of the torts & insurance practice service group. She earned her J.D. from the Uni versity of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law, magna cum laude , in 2024. She was pres ident of the Moot Court Board and captain of the Moot Court National Competition Team. She also was a member of the Appalachian Law Caucus and the Trial Advocacy Board. She served as education chair of the Women’s Law Caucus and social events chair of the Student Bar Association. Prior to joining the firm, she participated in Stites & Harbison’s summer asso ciate program in 2023 and was a legal extern for Judge Lucinda Masterton in Fayette Circuit Court in the fall of 2023. Couch is a member of the construction service group. She earned her

U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C., in September of 2023 and a 2022 summer legal associate for the IRS, Office of Chief Counsel in Washington, D.C.

Ferreri Partners, PLLC , welcome two attorneys to their firm, Jacob Rayburn and Ryan Carlin . Ray burn grew up in LaGrange, Ky., where he graduated from Henry County High School. He got his bache

lor’s degree at Northern Kentucky University before studying law at University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. Carlin was born and raised in Louisville. He got his undergraduate degree in chemis try at Murray State University before studying law at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law.

The Leadership Louisville Center has selected Stites & Harbison, PLLC , attorney Jennifer Henry Jackson to participate in the Ignite Louisville Class of Spring 2025. The six-month class teaches the key components of leadership to young professionals between the ages of 25 and 45 years old. Based in the Louisville office, Jackson is a member of the torts & insurance

practice service group, white collar criminal defense practice group and the health care service group. She handles a wide variety of litigation matters, including product liability, toxic and mass torts, medical malpractice, professional liability, premises liability and actions alleging serious personal injury or death. Jackson routinely defends clients in state and federal criminal cases. Her experience includes representing health care providers in complex fraud inves tigations involving the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Agency, as well as state inves tigative agencies. Created in 1979, the Leadership Louisville Center is the region’s most valuable resource for leadership development and civic engagement.

Kentucky ElderLaw, PLLC , welcomes newly licensed attorney Morgan LaRosa to their team. LaRosa, who was a law clerk with the firm, will focus on estate planning, asset preservation, and long-term care planning. She is a proud graduate of The University of Alabama with a B.S. in psychology. LaRosa graduated cum laude from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, where she received the

J.D. from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law in 2023. She served the Kentucky Law Journal as a staff editor for Volume 110 and the special features editor for Volume 111. She also was president of the Women’s Law Caucus. Couch worked as a certified legal intern at the University of Kentucky Legal Clinic, 2022-23 and was a law clerk for the National Labor Relations Board Region 9 in the summer of 2022. Prior to joining the firm, Couch was a law clerk for Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, 2023-24. Dean is a member of the real estate & banking service group. He earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law, cum laude, in 2023. Dean was a senior online staff member of the Kentucky Law Journal , Volume 111, a staff editor for Volume 110 and served as president of the Business Law Society. Before joining Stites & Harbison, Dean was a law clerk for Judge Patrick J. Urda,

CALI Award for Upper Level Writing and Research. During law school, LaRosa served as the secretary for the Business Law Soci ety and Christian Legal Society and worked at the Trager-Brandeis Elder Law Clinic. She will work in the firm’s Louisville and Bowling Green offices. The Louisville law firm of Fultz Maddox Dickens PLC is pleased to announce that Robert E. Ranney has joined the firm as a com mercial and healthcare litigation attorney. Prior to joining the firm,

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