Stites & Harbison, PLLC

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Apr. 25, 2005)—Stites & Harbison today announced that Andrew G. Beshear has joined the firm's Louisville office.  Mr. Beshear is a member of the firm's Business Litigation Service Group, where his practice includes general litigation and class action defense.

Before Stites & Harbison, Mr. Beshear practiced in the Washington, D.C., office of White & Case, L.L.P, focusing on class action defense, multidistrict litigation, appellate litigation and antitrust litigation.

Mr. Beshear received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Anthropology, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 2000.  He received his Juris Doctor degree in 2003 from the University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, where he was a Dean's Scholar.

Mr. Beshear is admitted to practice in Kentucky and the District of Columbia.

About Stites & Harbison

Stites & Harbison PLLC is a regional business and litigation firm with nearly 250 attorneys in Alexandria, Va.; Atlanta; Jeffersonville, Ind.; Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Washington, DC.  Twenty-two members of the firm are named in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America™, and over 70 percent of all members and counsel to the firm are listed as AV™-rated in the current Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory™.

Stites & Harbison strives to be a preeminent law firm based in strategic Southeastern locations and sought by leading business and institutional clients nationwide for sophisticated transactions, difficult litigation and complex regulatory matters.  The firm traces its origins to 1832.

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