Stites & Harbison, PLLC

Providing high quality, safe food and beverages to consumers may involve many areas of law, from supply contracts to compliance and litigation.  As a full-service law firm, Stites & Harbison can assemble the right team to meet each clients needs.

• Represented two large bourbon distilleries that released thousands of gallons of bourbon as a result of warehouse fires, assisting companies during immediate response actions and negotiations with state and federal agencies.
• Represented design-builder in defending owner claims and asserting client claims against subcontractors resulting from a wall collapse at a Virginia food processing facility.  This multi-party dispute was settled at mediation resulting in subcontractors' payments to our client.
• Lead counsel for a frozen food company in a commercial free speech case successfully appealed before the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Developed a comprehensive intellectual property plan that protected a new product line for a leading beverage equipment manufacturer.
• Successfully defended an international food conglomerate in the largest OSHA case in Kentucky history.
• Our team of state and local tax attorneys have provided advice to an international brewery regarding compliance with occupational license fees imposed by multiple local taxing districts within Kentucky.
• The state and local tax attorneys have provided comprehensive tax representation for some of Kentucky's most well-known bourbon distilleries.
• Recently, our tax attorneys prevailed on a multi-million dollar tax dispute with the state of California involving income tax apportionment stemming from the sale of a large frozen foods company.