Bar Admissions
Kentucky, 2001 Ohio, 2011 U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky, 2002 U.S. District Court Western District of Kentucky, 2002 U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio, 2012 U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 2015Education
University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, KentuckyJ.D. – 2001
University of KentuckyB.S. – 1998
Honors: With Honors Major: AccountingProfessional Associations And Memberships
Kentucky Bar Association, Member, 2001 – 2016 Ohio State Bar Association, Member Cincinnati Bar Association, Member Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, Member Northern Kentucky Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2011 – Present West End Real Estate Cooperative, Chairman of Board of Trustees, 2013 – Present Potter Inn of Court Northern Kentucky Bar Association, Member, 2003 – 2016Past Employment Positions
Freund Freeze & Arnold, Member, 2011 – 2016 Strauss & Troy, LPA, Attorney, 2010 – 2011 Gatlin Voelker, PLLC, Attorney, 2001 – 2010 Grant County , Assistant Attorney, 2003 – 2007 Grant County , Attorney, 2007 – 2008 Arthur Andersen, Tax Associate, 2001 – 2002 Ackman Lorenz Gatlin Voelker, Member, 2003 – 2010Pro Bono Activities
Chairman of Board of Directors, Grant County Joint Industrial Authority, 2003 – 2012 Board of Directors, Dry Ridge Soup Kitchen, 2008 – 2014 Board of Directors, Covington Rotary Board, 2011 – Present Board of Directors, Grant County Tourism Commission, 2008 – 2010 Membership Director,Central Cincinnati Referral Group, 2010 – Present Board Member, Cincinnati Drop Inn Center, 2010 – 2012 Board Member, Cincinnati Community Land Co-Op Alumnus, University of Kentucky School of Accounting Alumnus, University of Kentucky School of Law Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Covington Rotary Club Grant County ChamberJack’s Story
Jack concentrates his practice in three primary areas: small business law, complex litigation and municipality law. Additionally, he has significant experience in strategic business planning and consulting as well as dispute resolutions. As a complex litigator and trial attorney, having tried dozens of cases to a jury in Ohio and Kentucky, Jack has experience litigating matters on behalf of businesses, banks and individuals. He has been lead attorney in numerous matters and covering a wide variety of issues including, multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes; contract disputes; construction litigation; shareholder, member and partner disputes; breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and other business torts; residential, HUD, and commercial lease litigation; real estate litigation and title disputes; major felony criminal defense; estate litigation including will contests; fire and theft losses, and; environmental and toxic torts.
As a small business attorney, Jack serves as general counsel to many small and mid-sized
corporations and has extensive experience counseling owners, executives, and officers in all areas
of their business, including corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, dissolution, succession
planning, contract formation, government regulation, employment decisions, and property ownership
and management.
Jack currently serves as an Assistant City Solicitor for the City of Covington, the Erlanger City
Attorney, Dry Ridge City Attorney, Independence City Attorney and served as the Grant County,
Kentucky County Attorney and attorney for the Grant County Fiscal Court from 2003-2009. He has also
routinely represented municipalities throughout Kentucky and Ohio on planning and zoning and
litigation issues.
Jack has received numerous accolades and achievements including being an Ohio and Kentucky Rising
Star. He also has received the highest rating of AV from Martindale Hubbell as well as a 10.0 rating
from AVVO. Jack is a former Managing Partner of a regional law firm and has formerly served as the
Northern Kentucky Bar Association President.
He has been dedicated to the community over his entire career, having served as a board member on
the Grant County Tourism Commission; Dry Ridge Soup Kitchen, and; Grant County Chamber Vision 2020.
Further, he has served as Chairman of the Grant County Joint Industrial Development Authority and
Chairman of the Cincinnati Real Estate Cooperative.
Jack grew up in Louisville Kentucky and was in undergraduate and law school at the University of
Kentucky. At the University of Kentucky, Jack met his wife and law partner April Gatlin. April and Jack have four children in the Boone
County schools and they reside in Union. Jack spends significant free time coaching basketball and
football and enjoys spending time with his kids and attending UK sporting events.
