Cassidy R. Rosenthal
Cassidy R. Rosenthal is the Lexington Office Executive Member and a Member of the Construction Service Group. Her practice focuses on advising clients throughout all phases of construction projects including planning, contract drafting and negotiation, and project administration. Cassidy successfully guides her clients through construction claims and disputes including informal negotiations, mediation, litigation in state and federal courts, and in arbitration throughout the country. In addition to leading the firm’s Lexington office, Cassidy is a leader in the community serving on the Commerce Lexington Board, and a leader in the construction industry serving on the Associated General Contractors of Kentucky Board, and serving as Chair for the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry Division 1 Dispute Avoidance & Resolution Steering Committee.
What to Do About Drug Use on the Job Site
Annual AGC of Kentucky Safety, Issues and Education Conference, Louisville, KY, November 1, 2019
Chapters 18 & 19: Kentucky Construction Lien and Bond Law
Public Private Partnerships in Kentucky
Has It Really Been a Decade? The 2017 AIA Contract Documents
Good Intentions, Scary Results: Avoiding the Money Pit in 'Green' Renovations
Kentucky Court of Appeals Entertains Contractor’s Negligent Misrepresentation Claims Against Archite
First Steps in the Process
To Un-Jam Transportation Infrastructure Tenn. Tries P3s
Kentucky Enacts Public-Private Partnership Legislation
Young Lawyer Division Writing Practicum
Kentucky Construction Law
Capital Construction Process for Small Institutions
Presenter, NACUBO Seminar, July 2015
Important Construction Contract Considerations: Reducing Potential Sources of Dispute
Integrated Project Delivery Contact Documents
Drafts and negotiates a publicly-traded company’s master services agreements for design, construction, commissioning, geotechnical and other services. Assists client’s staff daily with contract drafting, negotiation, claims defense, and project close-out. The client’s projects are located in several states, and continuing to expand.
Successfully represented design builder in arbitration against owner and subcontractors.
Drafted design agreements and construction management contracts for a manufacturing owner.
Drafts, reviews and advises airport on design and construction contracts and other development issues.
Negotiated construction management agreement for healthcare facility.
Successfully defended owner against contractor's breach of contract claim in arbitration.
Successfully prosecuted a wrongful termination claim against public owner and a negligent misrepresentation claim against an engineering firm.
Defeated a subcontractor's claim for wrongful termination in a jury trial.
Advise a general contractor client on all aspects of its business: upstream and downstream contracts, as well as claims and project manager training.
Defeated contractor's defective material claim in a jury trial.
Office Executive Member, Lexington office
Lexington Office Recruiting Committee, Member (ex officio)
Business Acceptance Committee, Member
Commerce Lexington, Board of Directors, General Counsel
Leadership Lexington, Graduate
Downtown Lexington Corp., Board of Directors
Lexington Opera Society, Board of Directors, 2004-09
Lexington Junior League, 2005-10
magna cum laude
University of Kentucky College of Law
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Order of the Coif
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Kentucky Law Journal
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Research Assistant for Professor Rutherford B. Campbell
DePauw University
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Carson History Scholarship, 1996-98
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DePauw Dean's Scholarship
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Pi Beta Phi Sorority, President
Cassidy is a member of the Board of Directors of Commerce Lexington, the Associated General Contractors of Kentucky and the Downtown Lexington Corp. She is a graduate of Leadership Lexington and is an active member of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, serving as Chair of the Division 1 Dispute Avoidance & Resolution Steering Committee. Cassidy is the past-president of the Fayette County Bar Association Board of Directors.
Best Lawyers in America®, Construction Law (2017-20)
Kentucky Super Lawyers® (2013-17)
Benchmark Litigation, Future Star (2018-19)
Benchmark Litigation, Under 40 Hot List (2016)
Cassidy Rosenthal to be inducted as Fellow of American College of Construction Lawyers
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 31, 2019)—Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney Cassidy Rosenthal will be inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers (ACCL) on February 22, 2020, at the Annual Meeting in Tucson, Ariz.
Best Lawyers in America Honors 75 Stites & Harbison attorneys for 2020
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The Best Lawyers in America© 2020 has recognized 75 Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorneys as selected by their peers in 49 areas of practice. Forty-three of those attorneys selected have been honored for 10 consecutive years or more.
Cassidy Rosenthal Elected to Fellowship in Construction Lawyers Society of America
LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Construction Lawyers Society of America (CLSA) has elected Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney Cassidy Rosenthal as a Fellow in its organization.
Benchmark Litigation 2019 Honors 15 Stites & Harbison Attorneys
Best Lawyers in America honors 72 Stites & Harbison attorneys for 2019
Benchmark Litigation honors 16 Stites & Harbison attorneys for 2018
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The 2018 edition of Benchmark Litigation names 11 Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorneys as “Litigation Stars” and five as “Future Stars” in Kentucky.
2017 Fall Meeting
Kentucky Court of Appeals Entertains Contractor’s Negligent Misrepresentation Claims Against Archite
Kentucky Super Lawyers honors 55 Stites & Harbison attorneys for 2017
2016 Construction Law Institute
Stites & Harbison Attorneys named to Benchmark Litigation's Under 40 Hot List for 2016
Cassidy Rosenthal named Office Executive Member for Lexington office
Kentucky Super Lawyers honors 64 Stites & Harbison attorneys for 2016
Kentucky Enacts A New Project Delivery Method
Contractors and Owners Beware: Your contracts may limit your Recoverable Damages
Super Lawyers honor Stites & Harbison's Kentucky Attorneys