attorney

Jackson B. Hurst-Sanders

502-681-0415

Jackson is an attorney in the firm’s Business Litigation practice. Simply put, Jackson is a lawyer who represents business in lawsuits. His clients include insurance providers, financial institutions, real estate developers, product sellers, healthcare organizations, and utility providers. This wide-reaching practice has allowed Jackson to work on lawsuits involving contract law, eminent domain practices, creditors’ rights, cannabis law, personal injury, and employment disputes.

With each case Jackson takes on, he has one goal in mind: to reach an efficient solution that leaves his clients happy and their interests protected. During his time with Stites, Jackson has negotiated favorable settlements for his clients, saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars. He has also seen numerous successes at the early stages of litigation, with cases against his clients being severely limited in their scope or thrown out entirely.

And Jackson prides himself on staying up to date on how the law develops so that his clients are never left in the dark. For example, in light of Kentucky’s legalization of medical cannabis, Jackson hit the books to better understand how this could impact current and future businesses across the Commonwealth. This endeavor enabled him to become one of the forerunners on cannabis legal practice in Kentucky, speaking to healthcare conglomerates on the impact cannabis could have on their practice.

Recent Assignments

Represented online marketplace in a product-liability suit claiming that marketplace’s product malfunctioned and burned purchaser’s guest.

Obtained favorable settlement for medical supply company and employee driver in a motor-vehicle-collision suit following filing of motion for summary judgment.

Facilitate and review businesses’ applications seeking licenses from the Commonwealth of Kentucky to provide medical-cannabis-related services following Kentucky’s legalization of medical cannabis.

Advise major utility company regarding utility line installation and possible landowner disputes.

Conduct risk assessment and outline attendant strategy for healthcare provider following allegations of employee sexual misconduct.

Bar Admissions

Kentucky

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Memberships

Kentucky Bar Association

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Member

Louisville Bar Association

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Member; New Lawyers Academy, Jan.-June 2025

Community Involvement

Leadership Kentucky’s Elevate Kentucky, Class of 2025

Education

J.D.,

2023

summa cum laude

University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law

Org / Honor

Kentucky Law Journal, Volume 111, Editor-in-Chief

Kentucky Law Journal, Volume 110, Staff Editor

Order of the Coif

UK Rosenberg Diversity Committee, Student Representative

BARBRI, Ambassador

Bert Combs Scholarship; Core-Law Diversity/Merit Scholarship

CALI Award for Highest Grade in Criminal Law; Criminal Law & Procedure; Federal Courts & Systems; Antitrust Law; Secured Transactions; Criminal Trial Process; and Law & Religion

Best Brief Award

Best Source & Cite (KLJ) – Weaver Note, Book 1

Publication: Equality Can Stick with Bostock: A Call to Expand the Equal Protection Clause to Include Discrimination Against Transgender People’s Bathroom Usage, Kentucky Law Journal, 111 KY. L.J. 345 (2023)

B.S., Political Communications,

2017

cum laude

Illinois State University

Org / Honor

Speech & Debate Team, Impromptu Speaking Chair

Dean’s List

National Forensics Association & American Forensics Nationally Recognized Speaker (Top 24/150)

More Than Stites & Harbison

After law school, Jackson clerked for Judge David J. Hale of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (2023-24). Prior to joining the firm, he was a summer associate in the Louisville office during the summers of 2021 and 2022 and a legal extern for the Fayette County Attorney’s Office (January-May 2022). Jackson also interned for the Honorable Brian C. Edwards of the Jefferson County Circuit Court.

When he’s not working, Jackson is probably at a Louisville Cardinals basketball or football game, reading a fantasy novel, playing some PS5, investigating a new local brewery, or out hunting with his dogs, Maple and Pepper Ann.

Contact Resources

Jackson Hurst-Sanders's LinkedIn Profile