The firm's lawyers provide legal advice to trade associations and similar organizations on a wide range of topics, including corporate governance and membership, contracts, employment law, benefit plans, tax, code interpretation and enforcement, and antitrust issues. Here is a list of selected groups which Stites & Harbison has represented:

• American Institute of Steel Construction
• National Steel Bridge Alliance
• The Alliance of Community Hospices & Palliative Care Services, Inc.
• Greater Louisville Medical Society
• Kentucky Medical Association
• Kentucky Distillers' Association

Other representations include trade associations in the equine industry; coal, mining and energy interests; health care; construction; and, the land title area.