Thomas R. Coffey

Education

• J.D., Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, Indiana, 2006, Honors: Moot Court Board
• M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000
• B.A., Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, 1995, Honors: Magna Cum Laude, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Phi Sigma Tau

Honors and Awards

• Super Lawyers®, Kentucky, Category: Employment Litigation, 2021-2022
• Super Lawyers®, Kentucky, Category: Personal Injury - General, 2022
• “Kentucky Rising Star” by Super Lawyers®, Category: Plaintiff Litigation, 2013-2016
  
• Louisville Magazine Top Lawyers, Category: Criminal Defense, 2013 and 2016

Community Involvement

• Served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps: East
• Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky, Honorary Board Member and Former Board President
• The Louisville Forum, Board Member
• Credit Abuse Resistance Education, Program Volunteer

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Certified Life Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• Kentucky Justice Association
• Louis D. Brandeis American Inn of Court
• Louisville Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association

Jefferson Circuit Court Division 11, 17-CI-006418 (Judge Brian Edwards)
Verdict: For Plaintiff Jennifer Mick on her claims of Defamation, Conversion and Breach of Contract, June 10, 2022
Damages: $560,000 total ($110,000 in compensatory damages and $450,000 in punitive damages)

Tom Coffey represented Jennifer Mick, a behavioral analyst who helps people living with severe developmental and behavioral issues by providing them with cognitive therapy and developing behavioral support plans for them so that they can maximize their quality of life. Ms. Mick contracted with the Defendants Applied Behavioral Advancements, LLC and ABA’s owner Christopher George from August 2013 through November 2017. Beginning with an aggressive email on November 20, 2017, Mr. George accused Ms. Mick of committing Medicaid fraud and zealously pursued her as he stated he would in the email to her. He reported her for fraud to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and its Office of the Inspector General. He told Ms. Mick that she would all but certainly be convicted of multiple felonies. He reported Ms. Mick for fraud to the Behavior Analyst Certification Board and the Kentucky Applied Behavior Analyst Licensure Board for “unethical practices” and “billing [that] had been fraudulent.”  Mr. George and ABA took it even further. ABA employees contacted businesses with which Ms. Mick intended to contract with upon leaving ABA to further pursue their crusade against her.  Exhausted and suffering, Ms. Mick brought the underlying action in this case against Mr. George and ABA, amongst other claims, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, conversion and breach of contract.

Western District of Kentucky: Shrikanth Nekkanti v. V-Soft Consulting Group. Civil Action No. 3:18-CV-784-BJB (District Judge Benjamin Beaton)
Verdict: For Plaintiff Nekkanti on claim of forgery against V-Soft and its employees, Furthermore, Judge Beaton granted Nekkanti his costs incurred in litigating his claim, October 27, 2021
Judge Beaton denied the Defendant’s motion to dismiss the verdict and/or give a new trial, May 12, 2022
Damages: $86,685 total ($11,685 for lost wages and $75,000 for emotional distress)

Tom Coffey represented Nekkanti in a forgery case. Nekkanti was fired from his job at Anthem because Defendant V-Soft’s employee Saisivakumar Yerramneni, acting in his capacity as a V-Soft employee, forged a document of his to further the most fundamental aspect of V-Soft’s business. Consequently, Defendant V-Soft is liable for its employee Yerramneni’s action and for the resulting damages he caused Plaintiff Nekkanti.

Past Employment Positions

• Deputy Trials Division Chief - Assistant Commonwealth Attorney, Elder Abuse Liaison, Jefferson County, KY, 2007-2011
• Assistant District Attorney - Montgomery County, PA, 2006-2007