Attorney Profile

Gregory J. Bubalo

Gregory J. Bubalo

Gregory Bubalo

Bubalo, Hiestand & Rotman, PLC
401 S 4th St, Suite 800
Louisville, KY 40202
Contact Contact Gregory J. Bubalo
T: 502-753-1600
F: 502-753-1627

Visit: www.bhtriallaw.com
Practice areas: Class Action/Mass Torts (50%), Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products (20%), Personal Injury Plaintiff: General (30%)

Profile

Gregory J. Bubalo was born in Evansville, Indiana on June 3, 1955. In May 1977, he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Illinois College. Mr. Bubalo attended Indiana University School of Law, where, in May 1980, he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He served as an Associate Editor and then Note and Development Editor for the Indiana Law Review. In October, 1980, he was admitted to the bars of the Supreme Courts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the State of Indiana.Mr. Bubalo was hired as an associate with Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald. Shortly thereafter, the firm of Ogden, Newell & Welch offered him a partnership, where he practiced law until July 1995 defending physicians in malpractice actions and appearing in complex cases involving commercial litigation. After July, 1995, Mr. Bubalo became "Of Counsel" at Ogden serving at the same time as Vice President and General Counsel for Paradigm Insurance Company and as President of its subsidiary, Universal Fire and Casualty Company. He had ultimate responsibility for the management of litigation (both corporate and personal injury) and supervision of a network of lawyers in over thirty (30) states. Mr. Bubalo joined The Becker Law Office ("BLO") in June 1999 as its Assistant Managing Partner. He served as the Lead Trial Attorney on complex matters, typically litigating against Fortune 500 Companies and insurance companies representing injured people and small companies. In August, 2004, Mr. Bubalo formed the firm of Bubalo, Hiestand & Rotman, PLC ("B&H").

Selected to Super Lawyers

Kentucky Super Lawyers 2008
Kentucky Super Lawyers 2007

About Gregory Bubalo

Admitted: 1980, Kentucky

Professional: www.bhtriallaw.com/bubalo.html

Honors and Awards: Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy, National Board of Trial Advocacy
Special Licenses/Certifications: Also admitted to Indiana., 1980
Bar/Professional Activity: American Association of Justice and Kentucky Association of Justice
Verdicts and Settlements: Only one example of Mr. Bubalo's work is the case of Loomis v. St. Mary's Hospital, one of the largest personal injury verdicts brought to judgment in the State of Indiana. Mr. Bubalo served as primary trial counsel, representing a neurosurgeon whose slip and fall in the hospital resulted in a total disability. The Judgment for almost $17,000,000 was unanimously affirmed on appeal by the Indiana Court of Appeals. Click Here to view full opinion of the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Other Outstanding Achievements: Mr. Bubalo has been nominated again by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008 (Copyright 2008 Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) The 2008 edition is the fourteenth edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which 24,000 leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their speciailties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

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