Brandon A. Girdley is from Louisville, Kentucky and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lindsey Wilson College in December 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. For him, becoming a lawyer was an opportunity to help people understand complicated issues and, by doing so, to solve problems. So in 2020 Brandon enrolled at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.
During his time at the Brandeis School of Law, Brandon participated in the American Inn of Court as a Pupil member, was a member of the Dean’s List each semester, and was chosen to the Brandeis Honor Society. Brandon achieved the highest grade in Lawyering Skills I; Constitutional Law II; Criminal Procedure: Judicial Process; and Remedies all while serving as Editor in Chief of the University of Louisville Law Review, Vol. 60. His note, Other People’s Money and How the Hedge Funds Use It, was selected as Runner Up, Best Note.
Brandon was also awarded the William Marshall Bullitt Award for Excellence in Constitutional Law, the Samuel L. Greenebaum Award for Achievement in Legal Writing, and the Robert C. Jayes Memorial Award for demonstrating Outstanding Leadership and Service.
Brandon believes all of us, lawyers or not, have to follow the rules, so shouldn’t we expect the rules to be understandable? And that’s where his favorite part of being a lawyer comes in. For Brandon, it’s researching a complicated legal issue and presenting it in a way that makes sense; and that’s exactly what good legal writing does. It takes something that appears impenetrable, untangles the web, and reframes it in a way that makes sense.
Brandon resides in Bowling Green and in his spare time enjoys reading, hiking, and considers himself a film aficionado.
