Jill Endicott is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Her practice focuses upon business dispute resolution in all aspects and phases of litigation, including through trial and appeal, negotiations and settlement, regulatory proceedings, mediation, and arbitration. She has represented insurance companies, banks, financial institutions, product manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare companies and providers, and Fortune 500 corporations in cases involving substantial claims of breach of contract, indemnification, shareholder and business separation disputes, advertising injury, breach of fiduciary duty, anti-trust, statutory and regulatory violations, constitutional law, lender liability, professional liability, fraud, misrepresentation, products liability, environmental contamination, toxic torts, and consumer protection class actions.
In 1998, Jill successfully represented the Kentucky Commissioner of Insurance in his capacity as Liquidator of Kentucky Central Life Insurance (“KCL”) to secure reversal of a trial court’s order imposing $1 million in discovery sanctions and denying enforceability of over $100 million in personal guaranties. Thereafter, Jill served as lead counsel to the Liquidator of KCL in high-profile litigation against the Bank of Louisville, recovering a settlement of $27 million, and in the $100 million Webb dispute, one of the largest continuous lawsuits of that statutory insolvency.
Jill’s appellate experience is substantial. Her legal career began with a two-year appellate judicial clerkship on the New Mexico Supreme Court. Over the past 17 years she has litigated appeals before every appellate court in Kentucky, resulting in several precedent-setting decisions in cases involving a broad range of procedural and substantive issues. In 2008, Jill served as a Special Justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court by appointment of the Governor of Kentucky.
In her early years as a tort lawyer, Jill defended personal injury, products liability, professional liability, and toxic tort cases, first-chaired jury trials, and handled a broad range of appeals, including as local counsel in cases of national significance. Jill’s priority and focus is to achieve the most advantageous resolution for her clients as quickly and economically as possible.