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John Rosenberg receives award at 2019 Equal Justice Conference on May 10th

John Rosenberg receives the William Reece Smith Jr. Special Services to Pro Bono Award at the 2019 Equal Justice Conference in Louisville.

Attorney Escaped The Holocaust, Changed Eastern Kentucky

Associated Press 1:30 pm May 4, 2019 PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (AP) — Far from his soon-to-be home in Prestonsburg, a Jewish attorney and Holocaust survivor got a phone call that would change Eastern Kentucky forever. It was the summer of 197...

The other side of Eric Conn case: Lawyers, law students stepped up to help those he hurt.

Why do mountain folks detest attorneys? The answer is easy . Two words. One name . Eric Conn. Who can blame them? For the last four years thousands of mountain families have lived with this continuing dark cloud thanks to our neighbor who brand...

Housing's hidden crisis: Rural Americans struggle to pay rent

By Aimee Picchi April 10, 2019 / 5:00 AM / MoneyWatch A quarter of America's most rural counties have witnessed a jump in severely cost-burdened households. Rural counties with spikes in such households range from Maine to Oregon. Income...

A two hour commute for day care: How poor access to child care hurts Eastern Kentucky

By Will Wright April 04, 2019 12:40 PM, Updated April 04, 2019 12:40 PM The extra bedroom in Alexia Ault’s home near Cumberland holds a child’s bed along one wall, a crib along another and a playset in the corner. Recently, though, this room wh...

No hot water? A hole in your in roof? Why Kentucky law is so bad for renters.

By Elizabeth A. Davis March 07, 2019 06:41 PM, Updated March 07, 2019 06:41 PM Once on a first date, I talked about landlord-tenant law in Kentucky for 15 minutes. Fortunately, my now fiancé still asked me out on a second date. I love talkin...

Still Fighting: These Widows’ Stories Show Larger Effects of Black Lung Epidemic

Nancy and Rich Potter had the kind of marriage that made other couples jealous. He’d take her on spontaneous trips. She’d wear her Daisy Dukes just for him. Joyce Birman said her late husband, George, made a terrible first impression. It was his a...

Lexington law firm working to organize and distribute thousands of client files caught up in Eric Conn scheme

By Hillary Thornton | Posted: Tue 4:09 PM, Jan 15, 2019 | Updated: Wed 7:57 AM, Jan 16, 2019 LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - He admitted to defrauding the federal government out of $550 million and is currently servin...