Stites & Harbison, PLLC

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Aug. 27, 2007)—Stites & Harbison announced today that
Kennedy Helm III is a member of the Midwestern Advisory Board of the Managing Partner Forum.

The Managing Partner Forum is designed especially for managing partners and leaders of law firms with office locations in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.  The forum takes place Thursday, October 25, 2007 from 8:00 am - 4:30 pm at the Saint Louis Club in St. Louis, Mo.  The Midwestern Advisory Board for the forum includes managing partners of some of the most successful law firms in the Midwestern region of the United States. 

Helm is Chairman of Stites & Harbison.  Since he was elected in 1997, the firm has doubled in size.  In 2007, a survey of top law firm managing partners, conducted by Edge International, identified Kennedy Helm III as one of the Top 10 managing partners most admired for excellence in leadership by his peers.

He is a transactional lawyer focusing on business law, banking and finance, with significant involvement in airport law.

About Stites & Harbison

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, is a regional business and litigation firm with attorneys in Alexandria, Va.; Atlanta; Jeffersonville, Ind.; Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky.; Nashville and Franklin, Tenn.; and Washington, DC.  Fifty-seven Stites & Harbison lawyers are named in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and nearly 70 percent of all members and counsel to the firm are listed as AV™-rated in the current Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory®.  Twenty-two of the firm's attorneys are listed in the current edition of Chambers USA. The firm traces its origins to 1832.

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