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Kenneth S. Handmaker concentrates his practice in the areas of employer-employee relations, constitutional law, business transactions and business litigation and administrative practice before alcoholic beverage, health care, and revenue regulatory bodies. His varied practice is national in scope and has produced a number of legal precedent-setting decisions, including the unconstitutionality of Kentucky’s intangible property tax on out-of-state stocks and bank accounts, St. Ledger v. Revenue Cabinet; the unconstitutionality of statute prohibiting judiciary from enjoining administrative agency action pending appeal, Smothers v. Lewis; the elimination of statutory unfair trade practices in Taylor Drug Stores v. Associated Dry Goods Corp; the establishment of rules of litigation discovery practice in federal court, Wright v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; and the limited right to sell alcoholic beverages by the package on Sundays in Kentucky, Liquor Outlet, LLC v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Mr. Handmaker’s diverse trial and appellate work has taken him to the Iowa Supreme Court to establish new law relating to adoption of adults; to the Florida Court of Appeal to prevent a state agency from violating the procedural rights of a nursing home administrator and to numerous federal and state courts in between that have decided cases in his areas of concentration. His accomplishments have been recognized by his inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America. | 