About Frost Brown Todd

With nearly 475 lawyers across mid-America, Frost Brown Todd offers a deep, talented roster of legal professionals covering commercial transactions and real estate; business and corporate law; environmental; intellectual property; labor and employment; litigation; and business succession planning. The firm operates throughout ten offices in five states including Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and West Virginia. 

We leverage technical, industry, and legal knowledge and hands-on experience to serve a diverse client base, from global multinationals to small, entrepreneurial companies. Our industry teams integrate that powerful network of legal talent and business experience to provide strategic, comprehensive services across our regional platform.

Our Clients

Nothing says more about a firm than the companies that choose to use its services. Frost Brown Todd represents clients from a diverse range of industries, sizes, and locales. Our firm regularly counsels Fortune 500 companies, insurance companies, financial services firms, manufacturers, media companies, insurance providers, minority businesses, and entrepreneurs. Included is a list of clients which is representative of the kinds of organizations that depend on our firm for legal counsel:
  • AK Steel
  • Chase Bank
  • E.W. Scripps Company
  • Ford Motor Company 
  • General Electric
  • Liberty Mutual Insurance
  • NASCAR
  • National City
  • Turner Construction Company
  • United Parcel Service
  • U.S. Bank
  • Zimmer Holdings

Client Service

With a strong and diverse network of legal services, Frost Brown Todd has been recognized as one of the Midwest's and Southeast's leading business law firms by many of industry’s prestigious journals and bar associations. In fact, Frost Brown Todd is listed as a “Go-to” law firm in Corporate Counsel’s Directory of In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies, among other prestigious accolades from their peers and legal journalists for exceptional client service. In 2002, UPS awarded Frost Brown Todd their Core Counsel of the Year Award in recognition of the firm’s service and commitment to the company. We are proud of our reputation among our peers and the legal community. To be annually recognized as a leader in numerous categories is an honor that few law firms can claim. It is a further statement of our commitment to excellence in client service and of our industry knowledge and legal savvy.

The Firm by the Numbers

Frost Brown Todd is proud of the recognition it receives for both its service and legal capabilities, including:

  • 116 Attorneys listed in Woodward-White's The Best Lawyers in America® across 44 practice areas
  • Ranked #1 in the region for 27 practice areas by Woodward-White's The Best Lawyers in America®
  • 90 Attorneys were named as Super Lawyers across 45 practice areas
  • 53 Attorneys from 10 practice areas listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business®
  • Ranked First Band by Chambers USA in the following Practice Areas:

    Corporate M&A
    Environment, Natural Resources & Utilities
    Labor & Employment
    Litigation - General Commercial
    Real Estate
  • Consistently ranked in The National Law Journal’s NLJ 250
  • 13 Attorneys admitted to the Patent Trademark Office
  • Named one of the Top Ten Patent Litigation Firms in the USA by Intellectual Property Magazine
  • Ranked Number One Law Firm in Louisville by Corporate Board Member Magazine
  • 3 Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers, including a Founding Fellow
  • 2 Fellows of the American College of Construction Industry Lawyers
  • 4 Indiana Defense lawyers of the year as named by the Defense Trial Council of Indiana
  • Top 10 defense win, per National Law Journal, for child wrongful death case in Texas

Inside Experience

Frost Brown Todd counts among its ranks dozens of attorneys who have spent extensive time as in-house counsel, General Counsel, and officers in large corporations, including Great American Insurance Co., Procter and Gamble, General Electric, JM Smucker Company, Ashland, Inc., and Brown-Forman.

These attorneys have helped instill in our firm a sensitivity to the requirements of in-house counsel, including the need for prompt communication, an ability to anticipate emerging legal issues, and a genuine interest in client feedback. In addition, they have influenced the culture of our firm to “raise the bar” on our interaction with clients and quality of service.

Efficient Legal Services

Frost Brown Todd focuses on delivering to clients what they need most: sound legal counsel, responsive service, concise communications and an eye toward being as efficient in our representation as possible. We favor a lean staffing model in which the likely needs of a project are considered at the outset. Many of our projects are handled by a single lawyer, who becomes intimately familiar with the facts and laws relevant to the project. This approach reduces costs and avoids potential for duplicative work. In some projects, a threshold staffing assessment indicates that more than one attorney will be needed and a team of lawyers must be assembled. Our team includes qualified associates, paralegals and project assistants who can capably handle work requiring different levels of expertise. All matters are overseen by the relationship or billing attorney to assure the highest standards of work product quality and strict adherence to technical requirements.

FBT believes that all clients are firm clients. At the same time, we encourage our attorneys to be passionate about our client’s business and their success. This guides our decisions to focus on doing what is in the best interests of our clients, to spend time understanding the complexities of the clients’ businesses and industries and to be accessible to clients as their needs dictate.

Assignments to attorneys, paralegals and assistants are made on the basis of the (1) complexity and sensitivity of the matter; (2) deadlines; (3) billing rates; and (4) applicable specialization. Tasks which can be accomplished by paralegals or associates are performed at that level and reviewed by a partner. More complex issues are performed by experienced partners to assure the most efficient delivery of the best quality legal services.

Productive Technologies

Frost Brown Todd uses a broad range of technology solutions to enhance its efficiency and communication with clients. In particular, the firm makes extensive use of secure extranets with its clients. Each extranet is custom designed to client specifications, often with several layers of access. We currently manage various categories of information on our extranets, including correspondence, pleadings, transcripts, expert materials, contracts, document production repositories, project management databases, searchable Access databases, videos, client training and reporting materials, and client reports. FBT can also electronically interface with clients by secure e-mail or through customized solutions developed to client specifications.

In addition, FBT is extremely well versed in electronic billing, has deep experience in a wide variety of matter management and document management software, and uses the latest cost-saving technologies such as video conferencing, high volume scanning, e-copy and scan and other technologies to minimize our costs.