Background
Griffith, Robert W. was born on July 15, 1946 in Henderson, Kentucky, United States. Son of Robert Bell and Helen (Withers) Griffith.
Griffith, Robert W. was born on July 15, 1946 in Henderson, Kentucky, United States. Son of Robert Bell and Helen (Withers) Griffith.
Centre College (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1968). University of Pennsylvania (Master of Arts, 1974). University of Kentucky (Juris Doctor, 1977).
Omicron Delta Kappa.
Order of the Coif. Phi Delta Phi. Editor-in-Chief, Kentucky Law Journal, 1977.
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, 1978, New York and United States.
District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New New York
1979, United States. Tax Court. 1982, Kentucky; United States.
District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky. United States. Supreme Court.
Omicron Delta Kappa; Order of the Coif.
Phi Delta Phi. Editor-in-Chief, Kentucky Law Journal, 1976-1977. Member: Louisville, Kentucky and American Bar Associations.
Military: 1st. Lieutenant, United States.
Army, 1970-1973
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.
Vestry All Saints Episcopalian Church, New York City, 1980-1982. Board directors J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, since 1990, vice president since 1993. Chairman Episcopalian Church Home Louisville,1991-1992.
Board directors Better Business Bureau, Louisville, 1988-1993, chairman, 1991-1993. Lieutenant United States Army, 1969-1973, Germany.
Married Mary Hardaway, January 27, 1968. Children: Robert, William.