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Wills, Worley, DeSimone Named Fayette County Bar Foundation Officers

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Three Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney Member attorneys - Tim Wills, Langdon Ryan Worley and Andrew DeSimone - have been named Officers of the Fayette County Bar Foundation, the charitable giving arm of the Fayette County Bar Association (FCBA).

Tim Wills: Chair, Governance Committee
Langdon Ryan Worley: Chair, Publicity Committee
Andrew DeSimone: Chair, Development Committee

Tim Wills represents individual clients with business and estate planning, probate, and trust and estate administration, as well as labor and employment law, construction law, and the formation and governance of businesses. He is a three-time U.S. News Best Lawyers in America® Construction Litigation Lexington “Lawyer of the Year” and has been Martindale-Hubbell AV rated for more than 20 years. Tim is a past president and Founding Fellow of the Fayette County Bar Foundation and has served on its board of directors since its founding in 2006.

Langdon Worley’s experience in civil litigation has taken her to more than 60 Kentucky counties where she has defended a wide variety of cases, ranging from motor vehicle accidents and premises liability matters to commercial trucking, products liability, fire loss, subrogation, and blasting cases. She has filed successful briefs before both the Kentucky Court of Appeals and Supreme Court of Kentucky. Langdon has been named to U.S. News Best Lawyers in America®: Insurance Law & Litigation, and as a Kentucky Super Lawyers® Rising Star in Insurance Law. She has served the FCBA Women Lawyers’ Association as President (2020), Vice-President, and Treasurer, as well as on the Fayette County Bar Foundation Board of Directors.

An experienced and successful healthcare and med mal defense attorney, Andrew DeSimone is AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell® and has been named to U.S. News Best Lawyers in America®: Health Care Litigation, and Kentucky Super Lawyers®: Medical Malpractice Defense, General Personal Injury Defense. Andrew has served on the board of the Fayette County Bar Foundation for the past several years, as well as on the Defense Research Institute (DRI) Publications Committee, and was 2021 and 2022 chair of DRI’s Medical Liability and Health Care Law Seminar.

The Fayette County Bar Foundation (FCBF) is the charitable giving arm of the Fayette County Bar Association. Its mission is to raise and distribute charitable funds for law-related projects and education in Fayette County, Kentucky in the following areas:

  • delivery of legal services to the poor and indigent

  • law-related public education

  • improvement of the judiciary, the legal profession, and citizen access to the justice system

The Foundation awards grants to local not-for-profit organizations each year. The deadline for the 2022 grant applications is September 15, 2022.  Anyone interested in applying should visit fcbf.net for more information regarding past grant recipients and the application process.