Background
Proud, James W. was born on January 6, 1967 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
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James W. Proud
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Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1989). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Juris Doctor, with honors, 1992).
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, 1992, Kentucky, United States.
Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit and United States.
District Court, Western District of Tennessee. 1993, United States. District Court, Eastern and Western District of Kentucky.
Order of the Coif. Law Clerk to Honorable Bailey Brown, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1992-1993.
Member: Louisville, Kentucky and American 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.
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Member: Louisville, Kentucky and American Bar Associations.
