Ms. Ames focuses on litigation, dispute resolution and counseling relating to business disputes, with an emphasis on matters involving trade secret, non-competition/non-solicitation, trademark, copyright, Internet and unfair competition issues. Ms. Ames also has experience in securities fraud litigation, class actions, insurance coverage litigation and reinsurance arbitration and in registering trademarks and copyrights.

Ms. Ames serves on the firm’s Practice Management Committee.

From 1996 to 2002, Ms. Ames practiced in the Litigation Department and the Intellectual Property Litigation Group of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston, Massachusetts. Ms. Ames also served for six months as a specially-appointed Assistant District Attorney for the District Attorney’s Office in Boston. From 1994 to 1996, Ms. Ames was a law clerk to the Honorable William C. Conner of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

xE. Kenly Ames

• Business Litigation
• Civil Litigation and Appeals
• Intellectual Property

• Columbia University School of Law, J.D. 1994
• Columbia Law Review (Note Editor)
• University of Pennsylvania, B.A. summa cum laude 1991
• Phi Beta Kappa

• Kentucky, 2003
• Massachusetts, 1997
• New York, 1995
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

• Beyond Rogers v. Koons: A Fair Use Standard for Appropriation, 93 Colum. L. Rev. 1473 (1993)

• American, Kentucky and Bowling Green-Warren County Bar Associations
• Federal Bar Association, Kentucky Chapter (President and Director)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association

• Capitol Arts Alliance (Director)
• United Way of Southern Kentucky (Director)
• Community Action of Southern Kentucky, Foster Grandparents Advisory Council
  
• Leadership Bowling Green, 2004