Side Barr by SKOfirm

In this episode of Side Barr, host P. Douglas Barr is joined by SKO Partner Gene Vance to discuss Vance’s career-long involvement in the American Bar Association, including at the highest levels of leadership in the ABA. Vance also discusses the mission and work of the ABA and SKO’s commitment and involvement in it. Vance has served as the Chairman of the Litigation Section (the ABA’s largest sect...

This is the Part 2 of our discussion with SKO partner Adam Reeves about Stare Decisis  – the foundational legal principle of respect for matters already decided – one of the cornerstones of “The Rule of Law.” In this continuation from last week's episodes, Doug Barr and Reeves pick up the conversation, including an examination of Trump v. United States and the Rule of Law. In each episode of Side...

Stare Decisis  – the foundational legal principle of respect for matters already decided – is one of the cornerstones of “The Rule of Law.”  But in the 2022  Dobbs  decision overruling  Roe v. Wade  and the more recent  Loper Bright  decision overruling  Chevron , the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has notably (and controversially) rejected  stare decisis  and overruled two of its lon...

AI is the rapidly-growing technology that has long been predicted to revolutionize the world.  The general understanding and sensible legal regulation of this ubiquitous technology tool, however, have lagged significantly behind technology advances. In this episode, Doug Barr hosts SKO partner Dana R. Howard. Dana is a Registered Patent Attorney but also certified by the International Association...

Lawyers at SKO were instrumental in drafting and helping key Kentucky politicians shepherd the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 to Congressional approval and into law. The Act created the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA), a uniquely-structured agency meant to bring uniformity to the tangled morass of often inconsistent, opaque and even contradictory states’ regulations...

SKO is a member of ALFA International, a network of 140 independent law firms with members in nearly every market in the United States and in Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Africa, Canada, Mexico and South America.  In this episode, CEO Jessica Zaroski Bauer joins Doug Barr to discuss how ALFA International gives member firms and their clients access to great lawyers around the country and t...

In this episode of Side Barr by SKOfirm, Stoll Keenon Ogden, PLLC Managing Director P. Douglas Barr continues his discussion with Greg Kirstein, former general counsel of the Columbus Blue Jackets, and John Vaughn, a labor attorney at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP in Columbus, Ohio, about the ongoing developments in the legal landscape of Name, Image & Likeness (NIL) in college athletics...

In this inaugural episode of Side Barr by SKOfirm, Stoll Keenon Ogden, PLLC Managing Director P. Douglas Barr talks with Greg Kirstein, former general counsel of the Columbus Blue Jackets, and John Vaughn, a labor attorney at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP in Columbus, Ohio, to discuss ongoing developments in the legal landscape of Name, Image & Likeness (NIL) in college athletics. This e...