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About Tyler Thompson

Tyler S. Thompson is the Senior/Managing Partner at Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd, Conway & Stanton, PSC in Louisville, Kentucky, with over 30 years of experience as a plaintiff trial attorney. He focuses on medical malpractice, wrongful death, birth injury, catastrophic injury, products liability, and motor vehicle and trucking accidents. He has secured six jury verdicts exceeding $10 million, including landmark recoveries of $20.8M, $27.3M, and $164M, among the highest in Kentucky history. Named ABOTA Outstanding Plaintiff Trial Attorney of the Year for 2026, he serves as President of the Inner Circle of Advocates (2025, present).

Proven verdicts and settlements

$27.3 millionVerdict

A Warren County jury awarded $27,335,667.87 after a Monarch Environmental garbage truck parked illegally on a rural Kentucky road put a 17-year-old in a coma for 57 days and left her with permanent brain damage.

Warren County Circuit Court, Kentucky · 2002Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$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., 1986
Berea College
Undergraduate, 1983

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kentucky
State Bar of West Virginia
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
Inner Circle of Advocates (President, 2025–present)
American College of Trial Lawyers
International Academy of Trial Lawyers
American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
Kentucky Justice Association
American Bar Foundation
American Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association

Awards & recognition

ABOTA Outstanding Plaintiff Trial Attorney of the Year (2026)
#1 Attorney in Kentucky, Super Lawyers (2021, 2023-2026)
Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year (2011, 2013, 2019, 2024, 2026)
Peter Perlman Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award (2003)
AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
Kentucky Trial Court Review Hall of Fame (2020)

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$12 million · $12 Million Settlement for Breonna Taylor's Family After Fatal LMPD Raid
Becker Law Office
Becker Law Office
$16.95 million · Indiana Jury Awards Neurosurgeon $16.95 Million After Career-Ending Fall on a Hospital Pantry Floor
HJV Car Accident Personal Injury Lawyers Louisville
HJV Car Accident Personal Injury Lawyers Louisville
$74 million · Boone County Jury Returns $74 Million Verdict Against Eaton Asphalt in a Mother's Death
Isaacs & Isaacs
Isaacs & Isaacs
$10 million · $10 Million Verdict for Family of Christopher Short, Killed by Fatigued Marvin Keller Trucking Driver on I-64
Kaufman & Stigger, PLLC
Kaufman & Stigger, PLLC
$1,200,626 · $1.2 Million Verdict for Fort Knox Soldier Clipped by AmeriGas Propane Truck on Jefferson County Road