Melanie Straw-Boone
Partner
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Practice Areas:
- Family Law
- Divorce
- Complex Property Division and High Asset Divorce
- Custody and Child Support
- Parenting Coordinating
- Qualified Domestic Relations Orders
Biography
Education
- University of Louisville School of Law, Louisville, Kentucky
- J.D. - 1994
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- B.S. - 1991
Bar Admission
- Kentucky, 1994
- Indiana, 1994
- U.S. District Court Western District of Kentucky, 1994
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana, 1994
Published Works
Representative Cases
Honors
- Fellow, American Acadamy of Matrimonial Lawyers; past-president of Kentucky Chapter
- Brandeis Honor Society
- Recognized as top 1% of America’s Most Honored Professionals by The American Registry, 2016
- Named as Top Lawyer, Divorce Law, Louisville Magazine
- Selected to Kentucky Super Lawyers
- Selected for 2011-2012 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”
- Recipient “Raising the Bar” Award, Kentucky AAML (2012)
- Recipient, Kentucky Bar Association Donated Legal Services Award, 2010
- Recipient, Jefferson County Women Lawyers Association Achievement in Excellence Award, 2010
- Recipient, Judge Richard A. Revell Family Practitioner of the Year Award, Louisville Bar Association, 2007
- Committee of the Year, Pro Bono Consortium, Louisville Bar Association, 2007
Classes & Seminars
Pro-Bono Activities
Representative Clients
References
Past Positions
Languages
Ancillary Businesses
Fraternities or Sororities
Professional Associations
- Louisville Bar Association, Member
- Louisville Bar Association, Family Law Section, Former Chair
- Jefferson County Women Lawyers Association, Member
- Jefferson County Women Lawyers Association, Treasurer, 2001
- Jefferson Court Advisory Board, Member
- Louisville Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2009
- Louisville Bar Association, Chair, Pro Bono Consortium, 2006-2009
- Kentucky Bar Association (Ethics Committee, 2011-present, Trial Commissioner, 2007-2011)
- Louis D. Brandeis American Inn of Court, 2003-2006
- Co-Chair, Jefferson Family Court Advisory Committee, 2003-2007
- Indiana Bar Association