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About Liz Shepherd

Liz J. Shepherd is a Partner at Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd, Conway & Stanton, PSC in Louisville, Kentucky. She has been representing people throughout Kentucky since 1993 in matters involving medical negligence, product liability, auto and trucking accidents, birth injuries, nursing home abuse, and wrongful death. Approximately 95% of her practice is devoted to litigation. She has served as President of the Kentucky Justice Association and on its Board of Governors since 2000.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$18.27 millionVerdict

A Barren County jury awarded $18.27 million after finding that nurses at T.J. Samson Community Hospital disregarded the treating obstetrician's standing Pitocin orders during a 2007 delivery, depriving newborn Tristan Hamilton of oxygen and leaving him with spastic quadriplegia.

Barren Circuit Court, Kentucky · 2014Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
J.D.
Transylvania University
Undergraduate, 1988

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kentucky, admitted 1991
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, admitted 1991
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky, admitted 1992
State Bar of West Virginia, admitted 2008
Kentucky Bar Association
American Bar Association
American Association for Justice
Kentucky Justice Association (President 2017; Board of Governors since 2000; former Fourth District Vice President)

Awards & recognition

Selected to Super Lawyers (2021 and other years)
National Trial Lawyers Top 100

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$10 million · $10 Million Verdict for Family of Christopher Short, Killed by Fatigued Marvin Keller Trucking Driver on I-64
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$1,200,626 · $1.2 Million Verdict for Fort Knox Soldier Clipped by AmeriGas Propane Truck on Jefferson County Road