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Firm Happenings
As you know, in March the firm reorganized and began operating under a new name: Waters, Tyler, Scott, Hofmann & Doane, LLC. We are excited about the new incarnation of our firm, and the services we can provide for our clients.
In that regard, we are pleased to announce four new members of our firm family. Chad Smith joined the firm as a litigation associate in February. Chad is licensed in both Indiana and Kentucky, and came to us from the Jefferson County (Kentucky) County Attorney’s office, where he prosecuted misdemeanor criminal offenses.
Karla Edelen came to us as a legal assistant in May. Karla has considerable experience as a business legal assistant, and is presently pursuing an associate's degree in paralegal studies. She will be working with George Budd.
On July 1, Les Merkley joined our firm as an Associate. Les has operated in private practice in Jeffersonville, Indiana, since 1997, practicing primarily in the areas of family law, municipal law and zoning. We are excited about the depth his expertise brings to our firm’s practice areas. Les was accompanied by former legal assistant, Amanda Due, who is serving as a paralegal in the firm’s business practice. We are happy to have these four great people aboard.
Scott Tyler attended an Advanced Insurance Fraud Seminar in Indianapolis conducted by the National Society of Insurance Investigators. Topics included forensic accounting; body language and voice analysis; and criminal and civil arson.
Rodney Scott presented a legal update to the physicians and administration at Floyd Memorial Hospital on medical malpractice issues and legal updates on April 15, 2008.
George Budd is excited to announce his engagement to Tammy Ray, an emergency room physician at Jewish Hospital South in Louisville. No date has been set as of yet. The whole firm wishes George and Tammy a heartfelt congratulations!
Scott Tyler, Rodney Scott and Tricia Hofmann each recently participated in the “Talk to a Lawyer” program, which conducts a monthly phone bank to make referrals and answer simple legal questions on a pro bono basis. In addition, the firm donated our former multi-line phone system to Legal Associates, which runs the “Talk to a Lawyer” program, to assist them in being better able to serve the public.
Sandra Heeke is part of a competitive adult United States Tennis Association league team consisting of 18 women from the Louisville area. The team plays three courts of doubles and two courts of singles. She typically plays number one court doubles. The team plays matches throughout the winter. Sandy’s team recently qualified for the Kentucky State tennis tournament, beating out approximately 35 other teams. At the State tournament, Sandy and her partner won all three of their matches, and came within one tie-break point of advancing to the State semi-finals. Congratulations, Sandy!
Scott Waters is proud to announce that his daughter Megan Waters was married on May 17, 2008. Megan is a recent graduate of Cedarville University. Scott and his wife Anne have three other daughters, Mallery, Michelle and Molly.
Tricia Hofmann and her husband, John, together with Rodney and Lisa Scott, attended the annual FurBall in Louisville in February. The FurBall is a fundraising event and awards ceremony conducted by Pet Groups United, a non-profit association of pet rescue and animal welfare organizations in the Greater Louisville metropolitan area. More information can be found about Pet Groups United at its website: http://www.petgroupsunited.com.
Scott Tyler served on the Grants Committee of the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana and assisted in the selection of organizations which will receive grants in excess of $50,000 for local community projects.
George Budd will soon be completing his term as Secretary/Treasurer of the Floyd County Bar Association. It is anticipated that he will be nominated for Vice President of the organization at its July meeting.
Rodney and Lisa Scott and their family again spent this spring following daughter Emma’s travelling soccer team - Mockingbird Soccer Club - "92 Girls at http://eteamz.active.com/mvscg13/. Emma's team won the Kentucky State Cup for the third straight year and qualified for the Regional Championships in Rockport, Illinois. Emma was the team captain.
Rodney and Lisa Scott are also pleased to announce that Emma was selected to participate in the Kentucky Governor’s Scholar Program this summer. She will spend five weeks at Morehead State University studying a variety of subjects with an emphasis in music theory. She will then enter her senior year pre-qualified for scholarships at several Kentucky schools.
Rick Bartlett recently served as Chairman of the Boys Scouts of America, Clark County, Indiana campaign. The effort concluded with a luncheon at Papa John’s Cardinal stadium. Other firm members attending the fund raiser were Sandra Heeke, Ken Doane and Scott Waters (himself a former eagle scout).
Scott Tyler served as Ambassador Campaign Chair of the 14th Annual Rotary Community Toast and Benefit Banquet honoring long-time community activist Robert Kleehammer. The Ambassador Campaign generated a record number of the Gold Sponsors for the event and attendance exceeded four hundred. The proceeds will benefit the new downtown New Albany YMCA and Rotary Club of New Albany.
Rodney and Lisa Scott are proud to announce that their son, Dalton Fitzgerald, graduated with a Core 40 diploma from Clarksville High School. He also played baseball for Clarksville and was one of two senior captains. He led the team in batting average while playing shortstop. He also was named the offensive player of the year.
The firm is committed to taking aggressive and proactive steps to reduce the size of its carbon footprint. To that end, last year the firm adopted a “paper-less” system, which employs scanning documents and forwarding documents via e-mail and on-line fax, with substantially fewer paper documents ever generated in the process. This saves considerable paper and toner, and reduces waste. In addition, the firm contracts with Shred-It, a paper-waste recycling business. Virtually all the firm’s paper products are now recycled, and we are proud to report that Shred-It has advised that as of May, 2008, we have saved a total of twelve trees so far this year with our recycling efforts. In 2007, before we operated in a substantially paperless environment, we saved forty-seven trees.