Jeffrey S. Moad

Jeff Moad is a Member in the firm’s Business Litigation Service Group in Louisville. He practices complex business and commercial litigation, class action litigation, consumer finance litigation, and professional liability litigation.Jeff joined the firm after graduating first in his class from the University of Kentucky College of Law and serving as a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.He has represented clients in litigation, investigations, and negotiations opposite multiple state Attorneys General, corporations, classes, and individuals. He has litigated at all levels of Kentucky’s state courts, and in federal trial and appellate courts across the country. He counsels clients in a wide range of industries, including investment consultants, gaming and entertainment firms, financial institutions, manufacturers, loan servicers, law firms, food and beverage companies, pharmaceutical firms, insurers, telecommunications companies, and many others.

Jeff is the chair of the firm’s Pretrial Practice and eDiscovery team. He also serves on the firm’s ethics committee and recruitment committee.

Recent News, Articles & Speaking Engagements

• Refreshing Relief or Return of the Robocalls?, with Neal F. Bailen and Chadwick A. McTighe, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, April 2, 2021
• Anything Hurts So Long As Congress Says It Hurts: Article III Standing Two Years After Spokeo, presentation to Southern Law Network, March 22, 2018
• The Pot's Right: It's Time for Congress To Go 'All-In' for Online Poker, Note, 102 KY. L.J. 757 (2013)
  

Recent Assignments

• Successfully defended a Churchill Downs-Keeneland joint venture from a challenge to the award of a license issued by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission permitting the joint venture to operate a $200 million racing and gaming facility.
• Counsel for an independent institutional investment consultant in defense of derivative, taxpayer, and Attorney General claims asserted on behalf of a public pension system for alleged breach of statutory and fiduciary duties, civil conspiracy, and aiding and abetting breaches of fiduciary and statutory duties.
• Counsel for manufacturer in prosecution of claims against supplier for fraud, breach of warranty, and unfair competition resulting from misrepresentation of product's composition and country of origin.
• Successfully argued for complete preemption under ERISA of claims against an independent medical record review organization in appeal before the Sixth Circuit, and successfully opposed the petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Argued and briefed Sixth Circuit appeal in dispute involving a complex options and futures trading strategy.

Before Stites & Harbison

Jeff began his career as an Associate Director for Chapter Services for the Kappa Alpha Order National Administrative Office, serving as an educational and leadership consultant for 36 undergraduate chapters in nine states (2010-2011). During law school, Jeff worked as a judicial intern for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2014), and as a summer associate for the firm (2012 and 2013).