Bench & Bar March/April 2025

WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE

Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP , is pleased to welcome a new Partner, Erik C. Lattig , to the firm’s large and well-regarded commercial real estate practice. Lattig joins us after six years with another regional law firm followed by 12 years in-house with BP Americas/Thorntons, LLC, and Texas Roadhouse, where he served as director of Real Estate Legal Affairs, and Senior Counsel – Corporate Transactions & Real Estate,

Downtown Nashville Doubletree hotel. Details regarding these and other KDC events may be found at www.ky-def.org.

respectively. The focus of Lattig’s practice is real estate, develop ment, sale-leaseback arrangements, tax incentives, and among other things, the development of EV charging stations. He has served as a member of the Greater Louisville Regional Land Development Task Force, the International Council of Shopping Centers, and the Asso ciation of Corporate Counsel, Kentucky Chapter. Lattig earned his B.S. from George Mason University, and his J.D., magna cum laude , from the University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.

Ian Loos

Colton Givens

Ashley Hoover

Cohen, Chase, Hoffman & Schimmel, P.A. , in Miami, is pleased to announce that Daniel Martin Ebert has been promoted to a share holder in the firm. Ebert focuses his practice on counseling individuals and closely held businesses on the gamut of tax and operational matters they face and is deeply versed in federal income tax matters and working with pass

Ellen Houston

Andrew DeSimone

Megan Jordan

through entities, such as partnerships, limited liability companies and S corporations. Ebert is enthusiastic about assisting individuals and families to protect and pass on their wealth and is adept at employing trust vehicles and family-controlled entities to develop elegant and efficient solutions to gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes. He is also a fierce advocate for his clients before the Internal Revenue Service and United States Tax Court. Ebert is a native of Louisville and earned a B.A. in classics from the Univer sity of Kentucky, a J.D. from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, and an LL.M in taxation from the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. The Kentucky Defense Counsel (KDC) announces their 2024 25 board and executive committee. KDC’s elected new members became effective October 11 th : District 2: Ian Loos , Bell, Orr, Ayers & Moore, PSC ; Colton Givens , Kerrick Bachert, PSC ; District 3: Ashley Hoover , Taylor, Keller & Oswald, PLLC ; and District 6: Ellen Houston , DBL Law, PSC . The new executive committee includes: President: Andrew DeSimone , Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney PLLC ; President-Elect: Jarad Key , Goldberg Simpson LLC ; Vice-President: Tia Combs , Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP ; Secretary-Treasurer: Megan Jordan , Brown & Breeding, PSC ; and Immediate Past President: Todd Page , Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC . Additionally, Page is the new DRI State Representative for Kentucky, and Beth Lochmiller , Lochmiller Bond Attorneys , is the DRI Southern Region Director, representing Kentucky, Tennes see, and Mississippi. The Kentucky Defense Counsel held a Spring Seminar on March 14, 2025, in Louisville at the Marriot East Hotel. The 2025 Annual Meeting and Fall Seminar will be held jointly with the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association on August 27-29 at the

Todd Page

Beth Lochmiller

Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance recently elected Stites & Harbison, PLLC , attorney Walter S. Robertson as president of the board of directors. He has been active in the organization since 2018. Robertson is a member (partner) based in the firm’s Lexington office. His prac tice focuses on equine law, commercial finance, corporate finance and securities, corporate gen eral services, and mergers and acquisitions. His

background includes experience in multiple breeds in the equine industry and previous work as a bloodstock agent. Based in Lex ington, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that accredits, inspects, and awards grants to approved aftercare organizations to retrain, retire, and rehome Thoroughbreds using industry-wide funding.

The members of Kinkead & Stilz, PLLC , are proud to announce Robert R. May has been elected as a member of the firm effective Janu ary 1, 2025. Since joining Kinkead & Stilz as an associate in 2019, May has demonstrated excep tional legal acumen and dedication to his clients. He specializes in medical malpractice defense, professional negligence and legal ethics, and nursing home defense. A Lexington native, May

52 march/april 2025