Background
Lanum, Robert William was born on October 19, 1936 in Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States. Son of Robert Jones and Mildred Loren (Hanger) Lanum.
Lanum, Robert William was born on October 19, 1936 in Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States. Son of Robert Jones and Mildred Loren (Hanger) Lanum.
Indiana University (Bachelor of Science, 1959). University of Louisville (Juris Doctor, 1968).
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, 1968, Indiana and United States.
District Court, Southern District of Indiana.
1969, United States. Tax Court. Delta Theta Phi (Secretary, 1966-1967).
President, Clark-Floyd Estate Planning Council, 1972-1973. Member, 1984-1991 and Vice Chairman, 1986-1987, Indiana Probate Study Commission.
Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
Member: Clark County (Vice-President, 1979. President, 1980-1981), Indiana State (Member, Sections of: Taxation. Probate, Trust and Real Property) and American (Member, Sections of: Corporation.
Trust and Probate.
Taxation) Bar Associations. (Jeffersonville, Indiana 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, 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.
Member, 1984-1991 and Vice Chairman, 1986-1987, Indiana Probate Study Commission. Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Member: Clark County (Vice-President, 1979.
President, 1980-1981), Indiana State (Member, Sections of: Taxation.
Probate, Trust and Real Property) and American (Member, Sections of: Corporation. Trust and Probate; Taxation) Bar Associations.
(Jeffersonville, Indiana Office). Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
Married Carol A. Eggenspiller, December 19, 1959. Children: Kent W., Sarah Annual.