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Doug Farnsley is a trial lawyer. He has most recently tried cases to a jury in 2012, 2013, and 2015. Doug is also a Fellow of three invitation-only trial organizations - the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the International Society of Barristers. Doug focuses on civil trial work, including the defense of product liability claims and professional and hospital liability claims. He has also tried cases involving employment law issues, to enforce payment pursuant to an insurance policy, for breach of warranty, and representing plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury and death claims. Doug has over 35 years of trial experience, including 50 plus matters successfully tried to verdict. He has argued cases before state and federal appellate courts. Doug served as President of the Kentucky Bar Association (2015-2016) and served for ten years as a member of the KBA’s Board of Governors. He currently serves as a member of the ABA’s House of Delegates and as a member of the Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. Doug is Stites & Harbison's General Counsel and previously served on the firm's management committee.
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Louisville, KY 40202
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Credentials
Bar admissions
- Kentucky, Kentucky Bar Association
Education
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, LL.M., Legal History, graduated 1980
- University of Louisville, J.D., cum laude, graduated 1976
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., Political Science, graduated 1973
Affiliations
- Louis D. Brandeis American Inn of Court - Master
- National Conference of Bar Presidents - Member of Executive Council
- American Bar Association - Member
- House of Delegrates Member
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers - Fellow
- Kentucky Bar Association - Member
- Past President
- Kentucky Bar Foundation - Fellow
- American College of Trial Lawyers - Fellow
- former State Chair
- International Society of Barristers - Fellow
- Annual Judicial Conference of the United States of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit - Life Member
- Louisville Bar Association - Member
- former member of Board of Directors