Background
Tate, John L. was born on July 25, 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
Tate, John L. was born on July 25, 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
Wake Forest University (Bachelor of Arts, 1969). University of Louisville (Master of Arts, 1971. Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1981).
Phi Kappa Phi.
Articles Editor, Journal of Family Law, 1979-1980.
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, 1981, Kentucky.
1982, United States.
District Court, Western District of Kentucky. 1983, United States. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky and United States. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
1989, United States.
District Court, Southern District of Indiana. 1991, United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. 1995, United States. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Phi Kappa Phi.
Articles Editor, Journal of Family Law, 1979-1980. Author: "Federal Aid to Postsecondary Students," 18 Journal of Family Law, 147, 1979. Member: Louisville, Kentucky and American Bar Associations.
Defense Research Institute.
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.
Louisville, Kentucky and American Bar Associations. Defense Research Institute. Product Liability and Medical Malpractice Defense.