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Joe has litigated cases in Ohio to successful conclusion over the past 26 years with amounts in controversy ranging from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars in dispute. He has been recognized by his peers as an Ohio Super Lawyer, a recognition given to only 5 percent of the state’s attorneys. Mr. Griffith has been certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a National Civil Trail Advocacy since 2004. During his career, Mr. Griffith has conducted well over 100 trials and has had many successful jury verdicts for his clients. Joe Griffith is a native of Portsmouth,...

Kathryn dedicates herself to achieving success and accepting challenges. She graduated from the University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Justice Administration. She then went on to obtain her Juris Doctor at Northern Kentucky University – Salmon P. Chase College of Law. After graduating, she decided it was time to see the world and traveled to twenty-seven countries over a span of five months. After her adventures abroad, she returned home to Bowling Green, Kentucky to study for the Kentucky bar exam. While studying for the bar exam, Kathryn decided to...

Mark P. Bryant is a native of Paducah, Kentucky. He is a past president of the Kentucky Commonwealth's Attorneys Association; an Eagle Scout; on the board of the Four Rivers Counsel, Boy Scouts of America, and; in 1986 was selected to receive the Outstanding Commonwealth's Attorney in Kentucky award. In 1989, he was selected by the Jackson Purchase Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police, as citizen of the year and was awarded by the Paducah/ McCracken County Child Watch for outstanding service to the children of Paducah and McCracken County. Mark P. Bryant served as First Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney in McCracken County...

What’s holding you back? For Reed Law Group’s clients in South Central Kentucky, it’s usually a broken marriage or an unmanageable co-parent, or sometimes a crash-related injury or a recent DUI arrest. But it’s never their lawyer. At Reed Law Group, we are sharply focused on Moving People Forward in times of family or personal crisis. We deliver caring and experienced counsel to clients in Bowling Green, Kentucky on a wide range of family law matters, and to carefully selected clients with claims for personal injuries and those seeking defense of DUI charges. We’ll remove the obstacle...

Benjamin has always had an interest in helping others. In high school he tutored children in math at the Boys and Girls Club. From there he learned the great sense of accomplishment and purpose from helping others. In pursuit of his passions, he attended Western Kentucky University achieving a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics. Following his undergraduate studies, he moved to Lexington with his wife and children to attend law school at the University of Kentucky. At Hughes & Coleman, Benjamin utilizes his desire for helping others to fight for the results his clients need. He understands that when someone...

Ashley is a native of Bowling Green where she graduated from Bowling Green High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Communication Studies from Western Kentucky University in 2009. Ashley attended the College of Law at the University of Kentucky earning her Juris Doctorate in 2012. While in law school she was a staff editor for the Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture and Natural Resources Law. After law school, Ashley returned to Bowling Green as a law clerk for Warren Circuit Court Judge John Grise and Judge Steve Wilson. Following her tenure as a law...

I represent people in criminal and DUI charges, serious personal injuries from truck and automobile accidents, and agreed divorces. I am licensed in Kentucky since 1980 and in Tennessee since 1987. My office is in Elkton, Kentucky. I travel over Southern Kentucky and Middle Tennessee to meet with my clients or appear for them in their local court. I do not assign cases to paralegals or have other people answer my telephone calls. I try to answer telephone calls as they come in, but if I am not available I try to return telephone calls or...

Attorney Ben Crocker is a founding partner of Crocker Law Firm, along with his wife, Cyndi Crocker. Ben is a trial attorney with more than 25 years of litigation experience.

Ben earned his law degree at the University of Kentucky in 1992. He earned his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas, where he graduated with honors in 1987.

Ben Crocker grew up in Franklin, Kentucky. He was the 1984 valedictorian of Franklin-Simpson High School, and spent his summers working at the Franklin pool. Ben’s father, Ken Crocker, was a veterinarian in Simpson County. His mother, Helen...

Andrew J. Gregory-Mabrey holds a Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University, and received his Juris Doctor from Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law in 2010. He is proud to have joined Hughes and Coleman as a member of the Social Security Disability team. While in law school, Mr. Gregory-Mabrey participated in the Kentucky Innocence Project (the post-conviction branch of the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy), and worked for the Children’s Law Center, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on protecting the legal rights of minors. He also interned for the Law Office of Katherine Siereveld and was employed by Chevalier, Fox...

Makayla has been practicing law in Mayfield since graduating from Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law in 2012. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Murray State University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. She is a 2005 graduate of Graves County High School.

Jeff Roberts limits his private practice to representing individuals and families who have been injured or disabled. He has more than 30 years of experience. Jeff’s reputation as a car wreck, workers’ compensation, Social Security, and trial attorney has gained him a reputation that extends far outside of Western Kentucky. Jeff receives calls from attorneys from all over the state of Kentucky and even from attorneys outside of Kentucky asking him to represent their family, friends, and clients. Jeff is so well thought of in the legal community that he is frequently asked to speak at Continuing...

Jeremy Pruitt was born and raised in Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky. Jeremy attended and graduated from Calloway County High School. Jeremy is excited to return to his hometown of Murray and bring his big city firm experience and resources back to Murray to serve the people of Murray and Western Kentucky. Jeremy’s practice areas are broad, but he concentrates his practice in three (3) primary areas: litigation (including civil, family, and criminal), personal injury, and business law.

Jeremy’s legal experience began immediately upon graduating high school and throughout college when he worked part-time as a law clerk for a small firm...

Emily W. Roark’s career in law began at the Bryant Law Center in 2000, straight out of University of Kentucky Law School. She represents individuals harmed by pharmaceutical drugs, dangerous products and defective medical devices. Emily has been involved in several multi-district litigation and class actions involving opioids, train derailments, Essure, transvaginal mesh, IVC filters, Abilify, Zantac, Paraquat, 3M military earplugs and Roundup - just to name a few. In June 2021 she was appointed to the Plaintiffs Executive Committee in the Multi District Litigation case: RANITIDINE PRODUCT CASES, JCCP No. 5150. August 16, 2021, she was appointed to...

Dave has extensive courtroom experience as a military Judge Advocate, as a public defender, and as a private practice attorney. Born in Ohio, Dave grew up in the Appalachian region. After high school, he wanted to experience more of the world, and decided to enlist in the U.S. Army as an Infantryman. With a military career spanning two decades, Dave retired in February 2023 as a lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the Tennessee Army National Guard. During his military career, Dave worked on cutting edge military victims’ rights law at National Guard Bureau, leading the team of Army...

Eric was born and raised in Ohio and resided there while attending undergraduate and law school. Following law school, Eric moved to Kentucky and began practicing in a small office. Eric soon moved to a larger city and began narrowing his practice to personal injury. He has successfully represented plaintiffs throughout Kentucky and Tennessee for the last 22 years. For Eric, the legal profession continually challenges him to perform at his best while granting him the ability to serve others. In 2017, he was selected by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys as part of the 10 Best Attorneys for...

Corey has consistently been an avid reader throughout his life. He enjoys it and has always been interested in the English language as a whole. After high school, Corey decided to attend Middlebury College in Vermont. While there, he majored in English Literature, and upon graduation, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in exactly that. After college, Corey decided he wanted to continue his education in the field, and went on to attend the University of New Hampshire, where he received his Master’s degree in English Literature. Following that, Corey did four years of doctoral work at the University of...

Over 25 years experience practicing law in Kentucky.

A Calloway County native, Greg Taylor is an attorney licensed in Kentucky and Tennessee. He’s been practicing law in his hometown since graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2003. He earned his bachelor of arts from Murray State University in 2000 and graduated from Christian Fellowship High School in Marshall County in 1996. Greg practices law in the areas of real estate, corporate law, asset protection, estate planning and probate, adoptions, foreclosure & foreclosure defense, collections law, and collection of certificates of delinquency. When he’s not working, Greg is active in the Murray and Calloway...

Kevin Shannon joined the Bryant Law Center in 1997. During his 25+ years with the firm he has resolved thousands of personal injury and vehicle accident claims. Kevin is admitted to the Kentucky Bar, the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the Kentucky Bar Association, the Kentucky Justice Association and the American Association for Justice, and has a Martindale BV Distinguished rating. Kevin is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a forum limited to trial...

Margo Barnett is a founding partner of Clagett & Barnett, PLLC. She has practiced law in Hardin and surrounding counties since 2003. During that time, she has helped hundreds of clients through some of the most trying times in their lives. Her dedication to developing a personal relationship with each of her clients has led numerous repeat clients over the years.

Margo began her legal career in Elizabethtown working for another law firm. She helped clients with divorce, custody, adoption, domestic violence cases, neglect and abuse cases, and criminal defense and personal injury.

Margo grew up in Frankfort, Kentucky, and completed her...

Working multiple jobs throughout high school and college, Zack set out to obtain his Bachelor’s as quickly as possible, graduating from Western Kentucky University with a double major in History and Spanish in only two and a half years. Zack never stops moving, and he tries to do as much as he can as quickly as possible. He’s always seeking to expand his knowledge and gain perspective by setting and reaching new goals. While earning his law degree at Belmont University, Zack clerked at a law firm where he assisted on an unforgettable medical malpractice case. His client had a faulty...

I have been representing people accused of crimes and victims of the negligence of others on a full-time basis since 1994. Before opening a Paducah, Kentucky office, I worked in two large Kentucky law firms. Working for large law firms made me realize I’m not a company man. I’d rather help a person injured in a car wreck caused by another driver’s negligence than work for the negligent driver’s insurance company. And I’d rather work for someone wrongly accused of a crime than a government that appears to be headed towards making spitting on the sidewalk...

Over twenty years experience handling employment law and civil rights matters. My practice began representing large employers in defending such claims but, since 2007, I have represented both employees (or former employees) who have been victims of discrimination, sexual and racial harassment, unpaid overtime and wages, and other employment law matters and small employers wrongly accused of misconduct. I have successfully tried cases before juries and prevailed in the appellate courts. My main focus is always on doing my best to represent my client's interest, whether that is trial, settlement, appeal, etc.

Jessica Surber is a partner at ELPO who works primarily on products liability and personal injury cases, with most of her practice focusing on defective medical products and pharmaceuticals.

In the medical device field, Jessica has handled many cases against the manufacturers of metal-on-metal hip replacements, which have become widely criticized for poor design. Other cases Jessica is handling include lawsuits against the makers of IVC (inferior vena cava) filters, which are used to prevent blood clots from traveling through the body and causing a pulmonary embolism. The IVC filters are sometimes left in the body for too long, and can...

J.A. Sowell joined ELPO as an associate attorney in August 2017. A lifelong native of Bowling Green, J.A. is a graduate of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law and Western Kentucky University.

Becoming an attorney was never on J.A.'s radar and only became his focus about halfway through earning his bachelor's degree at WKU, Sowell says. "Since I was a child, I had always thought I would become a physician," Sowell says. "However, this changed when my undergraduate history professor encouraged me to consider the legal field. I took a job working for a local law firm and immediately...

Cyndi is one half of the husband and wife partnership that founded and runs Crocker Law Firm. She has spent most of her career (more than 20 years) representing injury victims.

Cyndi graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1992, where she was an editor of the Kentucky Law Journal. She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Kentucky in 1988. Cyndi was the President of the University of Kentucky Student Government in 1987 and served as the student member of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.

Cyndi is...

Joe Saladino is a native of Paducah, Kentucky. He attended St. John’s Elementary School and Lone Oak Elementary, Middle and High School. Following graduation from Lone Oak, Joe attended Western Kentucky University, earning a B.A. in Journalism in 2001. Joe completed his Juris Doctorate in 2004 at Northern Kentucky University. Joe’s practice focuses on injury cases involving automobile and trucking accidents, wrongful death, premises liability and workers’ compensation. Joe also handles injury cases resulting from four wheeler wrecks, motorcycle wrecks, and boating collisions. Joe and the other attorneys at Saladino & Schaaf only represent plaintiffs, devoting 100% of their practice...

Austin Kennady is a native of McCracken County. He grew up in the Heath community and is a 2007 honors graduate of Heath High School. Austin graduated from the University of Kentucky cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2011. While at UK, Austin participated in the Student Government Association, Sigma Chi Fraternity where he served as treasurer of their charity event, and worked as treasurer for a student investment group. He received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law in 2014.

He joined the Bryant Law Center in 2014....

Brad has been working to help injured workers obtain workers' compensation benefits for his entire career. A dedicated student of the law, he has helped hundreds of injured workers obtain the benefits they are entitled to by statute. If you have been hurt at work, give him a call today - Cell: (270) 535 - 1447.

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Cassie Clagett is a family law and divorce attorney at Clagett Law, who has helped clients through difficult times in Elizabethtown and the surrounding area for over 7 years. Cassie began her career as a consumer protection lawyer for a mid-size law firm in Chicago, Illinois, wherein she helped clients handle their lemon law and warranty rights claims against all the major car manufacturers. In 2011, Cassie moved back to her hometown of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where she represented both plaintiffs and defendants, focusing her practice on insurance defense, personal injury, product liability, and employment law. In 2015,...

Chris is a native of Murray, Kentucky and graduate of Calloway County High School. He received a Bachelor's degree in criminal justice and minor in Spanish from Murray State University. During college and after, Chris worked for the Calloway County Sheriff's Office as a deputy and dispatcher. After he left the Sheriff's Office, Chris spent six years as a Probation and Parole Officer with the Kentucky Department of Corrections, where he supervised adult felony offenders in the community. Chris left the Department of Corrections in pursuit of a law degree at the...

I've spent years developing my negotiating, litigating, and defense skills so I can fight for my clients' rights. With experience winning both in the court room and out, I can help you determine your legal needs and develop a winning strategy. I have handled thousands of criminal cases as a defense attorney with the State and in private practice. I know how to defend you no matter what your situation. As a department supervising attorney with a multi-state personal injury firm, I was responsible...

Western Kentucky native in private practice since 1998. Specializing in personal injury plaintiff and defense, criminal defense, divorce/family law and corporate/business law.

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