Top Rated Business Litigation Attorney in Louisville, KY

The Chair of Kaplan Johnson Abate and Bird LLP, David S. Kaplan focuses his practice on complex business litigation from the firm's office in Louisville, Kentucky. Providing representation to businesses and individuals throughout the state, he has handled a variety of matters both in the courtroom and in arbitration proceedings. Some of the representative cases that Mr. Kaplan has been involved in have included breach of contracts and of fiduciary duties, trade secret disputes, indemnity, fraud and conversion, shareholder rights, corporate governance and lender liability.

Mr. Kaplan's successful track record and superb ethics have earned him a Distinguished* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell, and he has also been named to Louisville Business First's annual 40 Under 40 list. Admitted to practice in Kentucky, he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

Mr. Kaplan attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an undergraduate, majoring in public policy and philosophy, and receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1993. He then enrolled at Harvard University, and in 1997 he obtained both a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. After graduation, Mr. Kaplan clerked for one year for a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky and then served as an assistant attorney general with the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General before entering private practice. His public service also includes his being the chief of staff for the then-speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives. Mr. Kaplan is a past chair of the board of trustees of the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence. Mr. Kaplan served on Governor-elect Andy Beshear's transition committee on the budget.