Adam Goebel

Adam T. Goebel is a Member in Stoll Keenon Ogden’s Louisville office and has been with the firm since 2001. He serves as Chair of the Environmental Litigation practice and focuses primarily on complex cases involving clients from the energy and commercial sectors. He is also part of the Business Litigation, Banking Litigation, Health Care, and Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring practice groups.

Within the realm of environmental litigation, a highlight of Adam’s success is his role as lead counsel for a client in a cost allocation case centered on one of the most environmentally complex sites in the U.S. This matter involved an arbitration hearing that included 35 days of trials over a four-month period.

As further testament to Adam’s strengths as a litigator, Adam was lead counsel in an appeal that vacated a multimillion-dollar verdict against his client. The published opinion, Insight Kentucky Partners II L.P. v. Preferred Automotive Services, Inc., was the first in Kentucky state courts to establish the standard for decisions on actions relating to aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty.

In other high-stakes cases, Adam obtained summary judgment enforcing guarantee agreements in excess of $100 million dollars, and he achieved significant settlements in National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) arbitrations, insurance coverage disputes and breach of contract claims.

Early in his career, Adam gained substantial experience in criminal law and handled felony jury trials on matters ranging from white-collar crimes to murder charges. Most of the court rulings were acquittals on all charges or a conviction of lesser offenses.

For his numerous accomplishments, Adam has earned professional recognitions on a local and national level. He has shared his expertise in the field of environmental law in several news and legal publications, including Business First, Bench and Bar magazine and the Louisville Bar Association’s Bar Briefs.

Environmental Litigation: Adam’s extensive background touches on all aspects of environmental law, from legal and regulatory matters to large-scale lawsuits. For a high-profile site in downtown Louisville, he challenged the claim that the property was in violation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), achieving a dismissal.

He has also defended clients in various citizen suits under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and was able to secure the dismissal of those lawsuits on various grounds before discovery. This includes a class action against the Louisville/Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District that involved claims arising out of flood damage.

Business Litigation: Working with clients in Kentucky and surrounding states, Adam helps resolve disputes over business torts, contracts, lender liability, LLC agreements, accountant liability, white-collar criminal defense and insurance coverage.

Banking Litigation: Adam advises businesses and professionals faced with securities infractions, preference and fraudulent conveyance claims, and valuation disputes, among other issues.

Health Care: Concentrating mainly on litigation, Adam represents hospitals, physicians and physicians groups, assisted-living facilities and other service providers in antitrust matters, insurance coverage disputes, breach of contract claims and a range of other concerns.

Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring: Adam provides representation to all types of constituencies in insolvency situations, from lender liability litigation to conflicts over securitized loans.

EDUCATION :

• Southern Methodist University 1996, J.D.
• Emory University 1992, B.A.
• National Criminal Defense College

ADMISSIONS :

• Kentucky
• Kentucky Supreme Court
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Texas
• West Virginia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Kentucky
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Kentucky
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky

Affiliations :

• American Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Louisville Bar Association
• Texas Bar Association