Charles D. Cole
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Charley is an indispensable member of Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney’s government services and public entity law practice. He chairs the firm’s Governmental Law Practice Group, provides legal counsel to several Kentucky cities, and represents a variety of governmental and quasi-governmental entities. Charley is knowledgeable in the numerous areas of law that affect public entities on a daily basis, including statutory civil rights, planning and zoning, risk management, administrative law, and open records and open meetings laws. He is a regular presenter on topics concerning governmental and quasi-governmental entities and their officials, such as disciplining of public employees, qualified official immunity and sovereign immunity.
DISTINCTIONS
- Inclusion in Trial Law, Inc.’s 2008 list of “Kentucky’s Million Dollar Opening Statements” based upon a jury verdict rendered in his client’s favor in Franklin Circuit Court.
- Frequent speaker and CLE lecturer on topics concerning governmental and quasi-governmental entities and their officials
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
- Fayette County Bar Association
- Kentucky Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Kentucky Bar Association Local Governmental Law Section, Chair (2009-10)
- Municipal Attorneys Association of Kentucky (MAAK), Second Vice-President
COMMUNITY & CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
- Fayette County Bar Foundation, Director and Founding Fellow
- Junior Acheivement, Volunteer Instructor
RELATED SERVICES
EDUCATION
University of Kentucky, B.A. (1990)
- Finance, with Departmental Honors
University of Louisville, M.B.A. (1995)
University of Kentucky, J.D. (1997)
COURT ADMISSIONS
Kentucky
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky
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