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Joseph L. Hamilton
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Joe Hamilton is a Member of the firm and has been based in the Louisville office since 1986. He is a member and past chair of the Business Litigation Service Group, which is home to dozens of attorneys and paralegals. He is also co-chair and co-founder of the firm’s Class Action Defense Practice Group. His practice emphasis is in class action defense litigation and other complex business and business insurance litigation.
With regard to his class action defense practice, Mr. Hamilton has been counsel in over 150 putative class actions during the last 35 years. Those class actions have been concentrated primarily in life insurance, health insurance, ERISA and other insurance and financial product issues. He has defended clients in putative statewide and nationwide class actions on a regional and national basis, representing them in the state or federal courts of more than 25 states from coast to coast.
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Kentucky
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
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
U.S. Supreme Court
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Vice President of the Student Bar Association |
Member of the Honor Council |
Member of the Student-Faculty Liaison Committee |
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