PRACTICE FOCUS

• Airport Law
• Business Expansions, Relocations, Joint Ventures, & Government Incentive Procurement
• Corporate General Services
• Headquarters Relocations
• Joint Ventures
• Public Project Legal Management
• Transportation Law
• Mergers & Acquisitions

MEMBERSHIPS

• American Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Louisville Bar Association

ADMISSIONS

• U.S. Supreme Court
• Kentucky

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• Aviation / Airports
• Banking
• Construction / Engineering
• Education
• Philanthropic Foundation

EDUCATION

• University of Virginia, J.D., 1974
  Order of the Coif; Executive Editor, Virginia Law Review
• Indiana University, M.A., 1970
• Yale University, B.A., cum laude, 1968

Kennedy Helm III is Chairman of the firm. Since he was elected in 1997, the firm has doubled in size, combining with firms in Atlanta, Nashville and Alexandria, opening a Washington, D.C. office, and developing one of the top 100 IP practices in the country, has embarked on an award-winning total quality service program and has pursued an award-winning print advertising and marketing program.

Mr. Helm is a transactional lawyer focusing on business law, banking and finance, with significant involvement in airport law.

Recent Assignments

• Led team of dozens of lawyers from five firms working on the $780 million Louisville Airport Improvement Program
• Counseled the University of Louisville Foundation during a high-profile case brought by The Courier-Journal concerning donor privacy

Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications

• "Environmental issues relating to runway construction at Louisville International Airport," FAA Annual Regional Land Use Conference, November 1999

Before Stites & Harbison

Kennedy Helm's first job after Yale was teaching fifth and sixth grade geography. That led him to a graduate program in English, a path that turned to law school after he received his Master's degree.

More than Stites & Harbison

Civic and community involvement has included board memberships on Greater Louisville, Inc., Louisville Zoo Foundation, Japan-America Society of Kentucky, University of Louisville Board of Overseers and, Kentucky Country Day School. He is a member of the board of directors of Whayne Supply Company and Griffin & Company and past director of National City Bank of Kentucky. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America®.

Besides Stites & Harbison

Kennedy—who enjoys a challenge—loves thoroughbred horse racing, University of Louisville basketball, golf and his rose garden.