Cynthia S. Buttorff

Background

Buttorff, Cynthia S. was born on May 26, 1954 in San Antonio, Texas, United States.

Education

Bellarmine College (Bachelor of Science, cum laude, 1988). University of Louisville (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1993).

Career

Worked at Stites & Harbison (Louisville, Kentucky) specializing in General Civil Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Acquisitions, Divestitures and Mergers, Administrative Hearings and Appeals, Admiralty, Antitrust, Appellate Practice, Aviation, Banking, Bankruptcy, Charitable Trusts and Foundations, Commercial, Complex Litigation, Construction, Corporation, Defense of Legal and Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury, Dissolution of Marriage, Employment, Environmental, Equine, Estate Planning and Probate Administration, Health Care, Insurance Defense, Labor Legislative Practice, Litigation, Mineral, Planning and Zoning, Public Finance, Products Liability Litigation, Real Estate, Securities, Social Security Disability, Taxation (Local, State, Federal Income, Estate and Gift), Toxic Torts Litigation, Trust(s) and Utilities. Admitted to the bar, 1993, Kentucky.

1995, Indiana and United States.

District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. Delta Epsilon Sigma. Delta Sigma Pi.

Phi Alpha Delta (Vice Justice, 1991-1992). Moot Court Board (Vice President, 1992-1993).

Florida Bar National Tax Moot Court Team, 1992.

Recipient: Research Institute of America Tax Prize, 1993. American Jurisprudence Award for Estate Planning. Listed in Who"s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.

Articles Editor, Journal of Family Law, Volume 31, 1991-1993.

Author: Note, "Illegitimate Children"s Right to Receive Notice in Probate Proceedings Involving Putative Father"s Estate," 31 Journal of Family Law, 649, 1992-1993. Member: Louisville, Kentucky, Indiana State and American (Member, Sections on: Taxation and Real Property.

Probate and Trust Law) Bar Associations. Stites & Harbison is successor to one of the oldest continuous law practices in the nation and is one of the largest firms in Kentucky.

The firm has grown steadily over the last decade and practices on a statewide, regional and national basis from offices in Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort and Jeffersonville, Indiana and Washington, District of Columbia Stites & Harbison is a full service firm practicing through departmental groupings with specialty and industry teams whose 5 locations function as a single law office.

The firm is the Kentucky editor of the Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest.

Achievements

• Cynthia S. Buttorff has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell.

Membership

Member: Louisville, Kentucky, Indiana State and American (Member, Sections on: Taxation and Real Property. Probate and Trust Law) Bar Associations.