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January 11, 2010
Sheryl G. Snyder selected to join American Academy of Appellate Lawyers
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Sheryl G. Snyder, member of the Executive Committee at Frost Brown Todd, has been invited to join the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
The American Academy of Appellate Lawyers is an organization comprised of lawyers whose practices have a substantial emphasis on appellate advocacy. Its core purpose is to promote excellence in appellate practice and advance the quality of appellate justice. Membership is by invitation only and is currently at 295 Fellows. Academy Fellows must have been in appellate practice for at least 15 years. Only lawyers with recognized reputations for the highest integrity and excellence in appellate work are invited to membership. Snyder will become the third Fellow in Kentucky and will be inducted into the Academy during the spring 2010 meeting in Phoenix, AZ., which will mark the 20th anniversary of the Academy.
Snyder concentrates his practice on complex litigation. He has litigated several significant antitrust, securities, RICO, contract, fraud, trademark, copyright and trade secrets cases for a variety of businesses. Snyder is also "the state's premier appellate lawyer" according to Chambers USA®. Mr. Snyder has made the appellate oral argument in more than 50 reported decisions, including the Oklahoma City bombing civil litigation. He has argued in the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits, and is a Life Member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference.
Snyder is co-author of the treatise Kentucky Appellate Practice (West). He has represented six Governors of Kentucky, of both political parties, in significant constitutional litigation involving the separation of governmental powers and campaign finance.
He is Past President of both the Kentucky and Louisville Bar Associations, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Kentucky Law Journal (1970-71) and law clerk to Honorable M. C. Matthes, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1971-73). Snyder earned a law degree and undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky.