Commercial Transactions

Financial Restructuring

Information Technology & Internet Commerce

• Kentucky, 1975

• Western District of Kentucky Bankruptcy and District Courts
• Eastern District of Kentucky Bankruptcy and District Courts
• Southern District of Indiana Bankruptcy and District Courts
• Sixth Circuit and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

• University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D., 1975, with high distinction
• • Order of the Coif, 1975
    
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    Marshall University, A.B., 1971, summa cum laude

Charles concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial transactions (including commercial finance, equipment leasing and the sale and distribution of goods), financial restructuring (including bankruptcy), and more recently in information technology and Internet commerce as commercial transactions have evolved toward the Web.

Charles played a significant role on an American Bar Association committee that helped initiate Uniform Commercial Code legislation dealing with the multibillion dollar equipment leasing industry (Article 2A). He was involved as the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (“NCCUSL”) drafted new uniform legislation dealing with the rapidly expanding industries of information technology and Internet commerce (the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act), and as NCCUSL considered revising Article 2A and the uniform legislation dealing with the even larger sale of goods industry (Article 2).

He practices in the Firm’s commercial transactions and financial restructuring practices which include commercial financing transactions, equipment financing, purchase, sale and distribution of goods, financial restructuring, bankruptcy reorganizations, and creditors rights, and also co-manages the Firm’s practice in Internet commerce and transactions in cyberspace.

Charles is included in the current edition of Woodward/White, Inc., Best Lawyers in America®; and as a Leading Lawyer in Chambers USA® America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

• The Best Lawyers in America® "Lawyer of the Year," Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency & Reorganization Law, 2013
• The Best Lawyers in America® 2001-2013
• Chambers USA® America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2004-2012
• Selected for inclusion in Kentucky Super Lawyers® 2007-2011
• AV® Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®

• American Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Louisville Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code, former Chair; Bankruptcy Law, currently Chair, and Business Sections
• Louisville Bar Association Business Law Section, former Chair; Intellectual Property & Technology Committee, and Bankruptcy Sections
• American Bankruptcy Institute

• Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Former President (two terms), and Member, Board of Directors
• Neighborhood House, a settlement house in Louisville’s Portland neighborhood, Director Emeritus (served three terms as President)
• St. Matthew’s Baptist Church, Deacon (two terms as Chair); former Church Moderator
• Atherton High School Mock Trial Team, former Coach (Kentucky State High School Champions, 1996)
• Cub Scouts, former Cub Scout Cubmaster; Received the Service to Youth award in recognition for service to Cub Scouting

Secured Transactions, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, Adjunct Instructor, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1999

Deepening Insolvency - Contours of a "New" Tort, ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2007

"A Look at Proposed Revisions to Article 2 of the UCC," Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Inc. Law Council Spring Meeting, May 2005

"Substantive Changes in U.C.C. Article 9 That Affect Equine Lawyers" 19th Annual National Conference on Equine Law, sponsored by University of Kentucky College of Law, April 29, 2004

"Pending Revisions to the UCC Articles 1 and 2 As They Affect E-Commerce: Is the Sky Falling?," Understanding Electronic Contracting 2003: The Impact of Regulation, New Laws and New Agreements, sponsored by Practicing Law Institute, New York, April 2003

"Dotgone - The Death of Dotcoms: Why did it Happen? Who has Survived? The Next Wave? Bankruptcy Considerations," Fourth Annual Computer and Technology Law Institute, sponsored by University of Kentucky College of Law, November 2002

The Uniform Commercial Code Seminar, Sales and Leases of Goods: Articles 2 and 2A, sponsored by Lorman Education Service, April 2002

Session Chair of the 12th Annual Advanced Computer and Cyberspace Law Seminar, University of Dayton School of Law, June 2001

Revised Article 9, National Credit Management Executives, June 2001

“Revised UCC Article 9: What Every Equine Law Practitioner Should Know,” seminar on Equine Law, sponsored by University of Kentucky College of Law, May 2001

Revised Article 9 of The Uniform Commercial Code—An Analysis of Parts 1, 2 & 3, sponsored by University of Kentucky College of Law, April 2001

"Federal E-Sign Legislation and UETA," Third Annual Computer and Technology Law Institute, sponsored by University of Kentucky College of Law, March 2001

Kentucky Foreclosure and Related Bankruptcy and Title Issues Seminar, sponsored by National Business Institute, February 2001

"An E-Commerce Primer: Helping Your Clients Avoid the Black Holes of Cyberspace," sponsored by the Louisville Bar Association, November 2000

“New Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and its Impact on Equine Transactions,” sponsored by Kentucky Bar Association and Fayette County Bar Association, Equine Section, Joint Seminar, October 2000

Kentucky E-Commerce Conference, September 2000

Foreclosure/Repossession in Kentucky Seminar, sponsored by the National Business Institute, April 2000

A Business Law Smorgasbord, sponsored by the Louisville Bar Association and the University of Louisville School of Law, November 1999

“Times They Are A-Changin' – New Laws on the Horizon Affect the Business Client,” sponsored by the Louisville Bar Association, June 1999

“The Euro and Its Impact on U.S. Trade,” Kentucky World Trade Day, May 1999

Y2K – Issues for Business Lawyers Seminar, sponsored by the Louisville Bar Association, March 1999

"Pledging Stock Under New Article 8 of the UCC," Kentucky Law Update, August 1997, co-authored with Tamara K. Severtson  

Distribution of Goods Seminar, co-sponsored by the Louisville Bar Association and the University of Louisville School of Law, March 1993

"Ten Ways Revised Article 9 Will Change Your (Lending) Life," Kentucky Bankers Magazine, July 2000, co-author

Tammy Goodridge

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