Carroll M. “Trip” Redford III received his law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1991 and joined the firm that year. Trip practices in a wide variety of litigation areas in state and federal courts, including commercial, construction, real estate, employment, equine and estate law. Trip has been active in the Kentucky Bar Association over the years and previously served as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing for the UK College of Law, and more recently as Chair of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Legislative Committee.
MGM represented the unsecured creditors committee of one of the sister companies that was a joint debtor in this case. This case concerned whether MGM’s client was liable for the environmental reclamation obligations of its sister company based on state law derivative liability or federal law substantive consolidation. The U.S....
Property owners in Fayette and Clark Counties in Kentucky learned of an effort to “nominate” their property to be listed on the National Historic Registry run by the National Park Service. The properties involved totaled well over 10,000 acres and would be designated as a National Historic District. Several property owners...
MGM assisted a local small business group in obtaining a judgment against an individual former co-owner defendant for theft and embezzlement. After the judgment was entered, the defendant could not be found for more than a year. Once he was located, MGM sought to satisfy the judgment by serving a...
In Wood v Vranicar & Wood v Smith, case no. 05-CI-3127, a Mandy Jo’s Law case under KRS 411.137 tried to the Fayette Circuit Court in a dispute over the wrongful death proceeds arising from a child’s death resulting from negligent treatment at a hospital and the mother’s challenge to...
A passenger was tragically killed in a collision with another automobile. At the time of the accident the vehicle was allegedly uninsured and excluded by the family’s other auto insurance policies. MGM was retained by the family to challenge the insurance company’s application of exclusions to coverage and refusal to...
After an estate dispute arose, one of the decedent’s natural daughters who was born out of wedlock sought to have her father’s paternity established. The decedent’s widow (the second wife) and her children denied the daughter’s claim and rights to the estate. The Court held the daughter was in fact...
In a case of significance to the music industry, music artist, Toby Keith, was granted a federal nationwide injunction under the Lanham Trade-Mark Act against sellers of bootleg merchandise. Read more ›
...In a completely separate suit, MGM represented a plaintiff who was awarded a judgment and order of sale of the defendant’s property to satisfy a judgment for money. By mistake, the court’s judgment had a numeral of the property address listed incorrectly which resulted in the address of the neighboring...
Ford Motor Company sponsored a program where certain Ford models were eligible to be repainted free of charge. The owner of a Ford truck decided to participate in the program and delivered his truck to a prominent Lexington Ford dealership to be repainted. When the truck was returned the owner...
Saddlehorse owners from California pursued claims for an accounting and breaches of fiduciary duty against their Kentucky-based agent who boarded, trained and showed their saddlebred horses. The United States District Court at Louisville ruled on a pretrial motion for an accounting and held that the agent was not required to...