attorney

Holly A. Couch

859-226-2229

Holly Couch is an attorney in the firm’s Construction Service Group specializing in construction and data center transactional work. Holly provides comprehensive legal support to owners, contractors, and subcontractors throughout all phases of construction projects, including planning, contract drafting and negotiation, and project administration.

Holly is a member of Stites & Harbisonโ€™s data center team which handles transactions annually exceeding $1 billion for leading data center developers in the United States. She structures and negotiates agreements essential to the procurement, design, construction, and operation of data centers. Holly has experience in developing, reviewing, and negotiating contracts for clients in the rapidly growing data center industry, including design, construction, commissioning, equipment, and other goods and services agreements for data centers and supporting infrastructure.

Before joining the firm, Holly was a law clerk for the Honorable Edward B. Atkins, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Bar Admissions

Kentucky

Memberships

American Bar Association

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Member

Kentucky Bar Association

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Member

Fayette County Bar Association

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Member

Education

J.D.,

2023

University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law

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Kentucky Law Journal, Special Features Editor, Vol. 111; Staff Editor, Vol. 110

2023 Allison Connelly Seek Justice Award

2023 UK College of Law Pro Bono Award

Women’s Law Caucus, President

Central Kentucky American Inn of Court, Student Member

B.A., Politics,

2020

cum laude

Centre College

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Bonner Scholar (national leadership scholar program for low-income and first-generation college students focused on community service and civic engagement)

Brown Colonel Scholar, four-year academic scholarship

More Than Stites & Harbison

After Law School, Holly was a law clerk for Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky in Frankfort, Ky. While in law school, she was a certified legal intern in the University of Kentucky Legal Clinic (2022-23) and a law clerk for the National Labor Relations Board Region 9 (Summer 2022).

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