Background
Gorton III, William T. was born on November 23, 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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William T. Gorton III
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The Pennsylvania State University (Bachelor of Science, 1976). University of Kentucky (Juris Doctor, with distinction, 1988).
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, 1988, Pennsylvania and United States.
District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 1990, Kentucky; 1994, United States. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky.
1995, United States. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania. Order of the Coif. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Book Award - Property. Articles Editor, Journal of Mineral Law and Policy, 1987-1988.
Author: "Attorney Fee Shifting, A Road Map for the Unwary: The SMCRA Example," Journal of Mineral Law and Policy, Volume 4, No. 1 (1988); "Coal Production-Environmental Impact of Coal Mining," Kentucky Mineral Law (Treatise) Ch. 3, Banks-Baldwin Law Publishing, 1986.
"Must Local Governments Flow Control Municipal Waste," Journal of Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association (1986). "Minimizing Environmental Risks in Commercial Real Estate Transactions," 4th Real Estate Law Institute, University of Kentucky Continuing legal education Faculty. Adjunct Professor, Environmental Law, University of Kentucky College of Law, 1995.
United States Delegate, USIS Project "Environment and Sustainable Growth" to S. Africa, Zimbabwe Uganda, 1996. Member, Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet Technical Advisory Committee, 1984-1985. Member: Pennsylvania (Member, Environmental, Mineral and Natural Resources Law Sections), Kentucky (Member, Natural Resources Law Section) and American (Member, Natural Resources Section) 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.
Membership
Member, Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet Technical Advisory Committee, 1984-1985. Member: Pennsylvania (Member, Environmental, Mineral and Natural Resources Law Sections), Kentucky (Member, Natural Resources Law Section) and American (Member, Natural Resources Section) Bar Associations. (Lexington, Kentucky Office).
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