Background
Whittington, Michele was born on April 14, 1961 in Sikeston, Missouri, United States.
Whittington, Michele was born on April 14, 1961 in Sikeston, Missouri, United States.
Transylvania University (Bachelor of Arts, 1983). University of Kentucky (Juris Doctor, 1986).
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, 1986, Kentucky.
1988, United States. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky. Omicron Delta Kappa. Articles Editor, Journal of Mineral Law and Policy, 1985-1986. Author: Comment, "Island Creek v.
Rodgers and Mine Subsidence Liability," 1 Journal of Mineral Law & Policy 127 (1985-1986). Co-Author: "VER From The Mineral Owner's Perspective," 5 Journal of Mineral Law and Policy 675 (1989-1990). Member: Fayette County, Kentucky and American (Vice-Chairman, Coal Committee, Natural Resources and Environmental Law, 1992-1993) Bar Associations.
(Lexington, Kentucky Office). 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, D.C. 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.
Member: Fayette County, Kentucky and American (Vice-Chairman, Coal Committee, Natural Resources and Environmental Law, 1992-1993) Bar Associations. (Lexington, Kentucky Office).