Stites & Harbison, PLLC

Ian T. Ramsey represents clients in federal and state courts across the United States. He is an experienced commercial and serious personal injury trial attorney.

Mr. Ramsey is the Chair of Stites & Harbison’s Gaming Law Group. Stites & Harbison represents clients with various gaming interests, including protection of intellectual property rights, charitable gambling, pari-mutuel wagering, Indian casino gambling, and online gambling.

Mr. Ramsey is also the outside general counsel for a national private corrections company and a regional manufacturing corporation. He assists these clients as a trial attorney and to identify and limit risks in their business operations.

Experience

Gaming Law Group

Kentucky counsel representing the Interactive Gaming Council in Commonwealth of Kentucky v. 141 Domain Names, concerning on-line gaming

Products Liability

Advisory counsel for Hurricane Katrina product liability class action lawsuits, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana

Trial counsel for utility contractor wrongful death matter

Co-defense trial counsel for products liability matters, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida

Advisory counsel for commercial trucking wrongful death case, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee

Fire Litigation 

Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator by the National Association of Fire Investigators

Trial counsel obtaining dismissal of all claims and judgment on counter-claim in bad faith fire litigation (arson - residential)

Trial co-counsel in dismissed multiple death (10) residential fire

Advisory counsel for fire scene investigations on behalf of manufacturing clients concerning lighting, fan, gas valve, HVAC and temperature control components

Trial counsel for bad faith fire litigation resulting in favorable settlement of all claims (arson - commercial) 

Business Litigation

Trial counsel for shareholder dispute/company dissolution matters

Advisory counsel for business operation matters in Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Mexico, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas

Patent

Trial counsel for successful defense of patent infringement matter related to corrosion protection system for concrete and steel structures

Commercial Real Estate

Trial counsel for work-outs, enforcement of securitized commercial real estate loans, and defense of lender liability claims

Other Matters

Co-defense counsel retained to challenge excess jury verdicts in medical negligence cases exceeding $50 million

Trial counsel obtaining dismissal of all claims and judgment on counter-claim exceeding $1 million in a construction fraud matter

Reported Cases

Arnold v. Com. ex rel. Chandler, Ky., 62 S.W.3d 366 (2001)

Patmon v. Hobbs, Ky. App., 280 S.W.3d 589 (2009)

Speaking Engagements and Publications

• "Do you own your Domain Name?," Louisville Bar Association Bar Briefs, Vol. 10, No. 04, co-author with Lindsay Yeakel Capps and Vonda Kirby, April 2010
• "Interactive Gaming,"  14th Annual National Institute on the Gaming Law Minefield, 2010 American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section, Business Law Section Gaming Law Committee, and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education, Las Vegas, NV, February 18-19, 2010 (presentation)
• "Contingency Fee Counsel in Forfeiture Proceedings," co-author with Vonda Kirby, The 14th Annual National Institute on the Gaming Law Minefield, 2010 American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section, Business Law Section Gaming Law Committee, and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education (article) (For a copy of all written materials of the National Institute, visit the ABA Web Store at http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=Main&fm=Product.Search&type=b&sgcd=2&k=gaming+law
• "Recognizing Legal Consequences," Dismas Charities, Inc.; Spring 2000, 2003, 2007 (presentation)
• "Fundamentals of Exporting," Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Fall 1999 (presentation)
• "The Code of Federal Regulations," Commerce and Foreign Trade, Expeditors International of Washington, Summer 2009 (presentation) 
• "The Federal Sentencing Guidelines," 31st Annual Antitrust Institute, 1999 (article)
• "International Antitrust Enforcement," International Communiqué, Fall 1997 (article)
• "Is Your Foreign Public Official on Your Payroll," International Communiqué, Spring 1998 (article)
• "Pushing PowerPoint Above Idle: Speech is Abstract; Pictures are Real," Legal Tech, Vol. XVI. No. 10, January 1999  (article)

Media

i-gaming

• Interview: "DoJ's Wire Act Ruling Lights Fire for Federal Regulation," by Tony Batt, GamblingCompliance, January3, 2012
• Interview: "Gambling Expansion Debated in Kentucky Governor's Race," by Tony Batt, GamblingCompliance, July 26, 2011
• Interview: "Internet Gambling Inevitable, Say Southern Gaming Executives," by Tony Batt, GamblingCompliance, May 6, 2011
• Podcast: IGC Responds to Kentucky Supreme Court Hearing, Oct. 29, 2009
• Interview: Internet Gambling Proponents Prepare for Kentucky Supreme Court Hearing, Poker Daily News, Oct. 21, 2009
• Interview: Poker Industry Reacts to Kentucky Internet Gambling Hearing, Poker Daily News, Oct. 23, 2009
• News Article: Kentucky Suit has Web world in a tizzy, National Law Journal, Feb. 2, 2009

Before Stites & Harbison

Ian Ramsey joined Stites & Harbison in March 2002. Prior to that he was a senior associate at Brown, Todd & Heyburn LLC, where he practiced commercial litigation. Before this, he was an Assistant State Attorney for Florida's Twentieth Judicial Circuit.

More Than Stites & Harbison

Mr. Ramsey is very active in the community serving as the chairman for the Louisville Public Media Advisory Council.  He is also a member of the 2010 Class of Leadership Louisville.

Besides Stites & Harbison

When not practicing law, Ian focuses his time and energy to raise his daughter and son with his wife, Kelly.