Jack Scott Gatlin

Jack concentrates his practice in three primary areas: municipality law, small business law and complex litigation. Additionally, he has significant experience in strategic business planning and consulting as well as dispute resolutions. Jack currently serves as the Erlanger 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 litigation issues. During his time as Grant County Attorney, Jack handled extensive litigation in federal court defending United States Code Section 1983 actions. 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 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.

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Kentucky

Kentucky Bar Association

Since 2001

Ohio

Supreme Court of Ohio Office of Attorney Services

Since 2011

6th Circuit

Since 2015

U.S. District Court, Eastern & Western District of Kentucky

Since 2002

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio

Since 2012

Partner

Gatlin Voelker PLLC

2016 - Current

Managing Shareholder

Freund Freeze & Arnold Managing

2011 - 2016

Attorney

Strauss & Troy, LPA

2010 - 2011

Attorney

Gatlin Voelker, PLLC

2001 - 2010

Grant County Prosecutor

Grant County

2003 - 2008

Tax Associate

Arthur Andersen

2001 - 2002

University of Kentucky College of Law

J.D. (2001)

1998 - 2001

University of Kentucky

B.S. (1998) | Accounting

1994 - 1998

Distinguished Service Award

Commonwealth of Kentucky

2004

Rising Star

Super Lawyers

AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated

Martindale-Hubbell

Ohio State Bar Association

Member

2011 - Current

Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys

Member

2011 - Current

Cincinnati Bar Association

Member

2010 - Current

Grant County Bar Association

Member

2003 - Current

Northern Kentucky Bar Association

Member

2001 - Current

Dampened Dreams

Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys Journal

2012

Managing Cash Flow

Impact

2011

Smart Real Estate Investors Buy Title Insurance

Impact

2011

Estate Planning, Small Business Class

2011

Negotiating Insurance Cases, NKBA CLE Day

2012

Managing Litigation Expenses, Managing Litigation

2013

Business Succession Planning, Springboro Chamber of Commerce

2013

Judgments and Liens, Top 8 Title Defects- Cured

2013