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LMICK Welcomes Two New Members to its Board of Directors

Matthew P. Cook and Zoe Jessie will be joining LMICK’s Board of Directors in September. Mr. Cook is a litigation partner at Kerrick Bachert, PSC located in Bowling Green, KY. His areas of practice are Insurance Defense, Employment Law, Municipal Law, and Medical Malpractice. Mr. Cook comes to LMICK’s Board in his capacity as the KBA’s President-Elect. Ms. Jessie is a graduate of the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law and serves as the YLD representative on LMICK’s Board. Welcome to LMICK’s Board Matt and Zoe! We appreciate you both sharing your time and talent with us.

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New KBA Website and Database Coming in Mid-July

The staff of the Kentucky Bar Association in conjunction with Euclid Technology have been preparing a new website and database for KBA members to access their membership online. According to the KBA, the new system will become live on July 17th. According to KBA’s July 2025 “eNews” publication, attorneys should have already received information on the new system and how to log in to your member profile. The KBA advises that this information would have been sent to your inbox, so check all your email folders to make sure you received the information. If you have any questions about the new system, the KBA says its staff is available to help assist you and your office throughout this transition. For more information, visit the KBA’s website.

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“File & Serve” (eFiling) Training Sessions Coming Soon

The AOC has announced that in anticipation of the Kentucky Court of Justice’s new eFiling system, “File & Serve”, going live in the fall of 2025 in Jefferson and Fayette Counties, Tyler Technologies will be hosting online training sessions. If you attended the KBA’s annual convention this month, you may have attended the presentation on “File & Serve.” However, if not, no worries. Tyler Technologies will be hosting 60-90 minute instructor-led interactive online training sessions for the new File & Serve application. Sessions for attorneys and staff will be offered multiple days per week for four (4) weeks prior to go-live. The first four (4) Go-To-Meeting sessions will be reserved for Jefferson County as the first G0-Live (GL) county. A similar training schedule will be established for Fayette, the second GL county, with statewide rollout to follow in 2026. For upcoming dates and additional information on File & Serve, you may visit their webpage by clicking this link: File & Serve (eFiling). Stay tuned!

Celebrating Strength, Service and Shared Commitment . . .

As we mark another year and I share this annual message with our policyholders, I am proud to reflect on the legacy that we have built together. We have had a remarkable journey serving Kentucky’s legal community. Our mutual structure ensures that our insureds are not just clients, but partners – and your needs and interests are always at the heart of everything we do.

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LMICK Celebrates Its Newest Directors Emeriti

Congratulations to LMICK’s newest Directors Emeriti: Ruth H. Baxter; John G. Prather, Jr.; Daniel P. Stratton; and David L Yewell! Last month, LMICK celebrated its newest Directors Emeriti in Louisville. The event was attended by members of LMICK’s Board of Directors, past Directors and other LMICK friends. LMICK congratulates each new Director Emeritus and thanks them for their service to LMICK!

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Corporate Transparency Act – Update, March 2, 2025

Lawyers Mutual wishes to bring to your attention another update on The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a press release titled, “Treasury Department Announces Suspension of Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act Against U.S. Citizens and Domestic Reporting Companies.” This press release comes just weeks after the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas’s decision in Samantha Smith and Robert Means v. U.S. Department of Treasury, NO. 6:24-cv-336 (E.D. Tex., 2/17/25) which stayed the nationwide injunction. As a result of that decision, the CTA and its reporting obligations were once again back in full force. Failure to comply with the CTA meant significant penalties for noncompliance. However, the Treasury Department’s March 2nd press release clarifies the enforcement of the CTA as it relates to U.S. citizens and domestic companies.

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Mother Nature Strikes Again ...

Once again devastating flooding has impacted multiple communities across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Everyone in those communities is in our thoughts and prayers. The LMICK Board and Staff are so sorry for the lives lost, the homes and keepsakes within them ruined, the businesses destroyed and interrupted, and the uncertainty those affected face in the days ahead. With regard to lawyers more specifically, we know that some of our insureds have been affected. When tornadoes hit the state in 2021, LMICK developed materials to assist lawyers whose offices and/or client files were destroyed or damaged. Aside from dealing with any personal loss, lawyers have ethical responsibilities to their clients in these unfortunate circumstances and the recent flooding may well trigger some of these duties. For example, lawyers must notify clients of the damage and advise of the risk of inadvertent disclosure of client confidential information if files are scattered. Similarly, clients must be advised of the destruction of their files and of the lawyers efforts to reconstruct same. Below are links to materials that may be useful if your office and client files have been damaged.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year from the LMICK Board and Staff. We hope you, our loyal and valued insureds, had a wonderful and relaxing holiday season. We are so grateful for the trust you place in us to protect your practices. We look forward to continuing our service to you and all the attorneys of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 2025 and beyond. Please let us know how we can be of assistance to you and your practice.

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays from the LMICK Board and Staff. We wish you, our loyal and valued insureds, the most wonderful of holiday seasons. We are so grateful for the trust you place in us to protect your practices. We look forward to continuing our service to you and all the attorneys of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 2025 and beyond. Please let us know how we can be of assistance to you and your practice.

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Kentucky Law Update

KLU season is well underway, and we’ve loved seeing you in Owensboro, Covington, Ashland, London and Paducah. We look forward to being in Lexington (10/24), Pikeville (11/14), Bowling Green (11/21) and Louisville (12/5) in the coming weeks. Along with Yvette Hourigan of KYLAP and Laura Day DelCotto, of DelCotto Law Group PLLC and Chair of the KBA Well-Being Committee, LMICK is presenting a program on how to ethically and practically “pause” your practice. Join us to get a head start on your required ethics credits for the 2024-2025 CLE season and learn about the ethics and business considerations around taking time away from your practice. Click the following link to register for the upcoming law updates.