Efforts to raise money for JCUP are winding down. The project has secured more than $689,000 in pledges from various donors. View project and donor details here!
Approximately 85 percent of the project's fundraising goal has been met, thanks to local lawyers and law firms. According to Judge A. C. McKay Chauvin, this total includes $35,000 from the Jefferson County Public Law Library, the largest single financial commitment in the campaign.
Discussions began more than two years ago about how to bring jury trials in Jefferson Circuit Court into the digital age. A group of attorneys convened by Judge Chauvin recommended technological upgrades for each courtroom including ceiling-mounted projectors, dual projection screens, a document camera, CD/DVD player and touch-screen monitors with telestrator capabilities at both counsel tables and the witness stand.
JCUP was then formed as a nonprofit organization and a fundraising committee, headed by attorney Patrick W. Michael, began soliciting funds in the spring of this year to purchase the equipment. Enough money had been raised by summertime to equip Judge Chauvin’s courtroom as a prototype. In July, a series of programs were held to demonstrate the new system’s capabilities and stimulate additional financial support for the project’s expansion to other circuit courtrooms. A final fundraising push in the fall brought JCUP within sight of its goal.
JCUP’s fundraising success is a testament to the strength of the local trial bar and its resolve that all parties, regardless of their resources, have access to the most up-to-date communication methods when trying cases in Jefferson Circuit Court.
JCUP Partners & Contributors
$35,000
Jefferson County Public Law Library
$30,000
Bahe Cook Cantley & Nefzger *
Bingham Greenebaum Doll *
Franklin Law Group *
Frost Brown Todd *
Ken Sales *
Stites & Harbison *
Stoll Keenon Ogden *
Wyatt Tarrant & Combs *
$25,000
Dinsmore & Shohl *
$15,000
Ackerson & Yann
Boehl Stopher & Graves *
Dolt Thompson Shepherd & Kinney
Goldberg Simpson
Lynch Cox Gilman & Goodman
McMasters Keith *
Middleton Reutlinger *
O’Bryan Brown & Toner *
Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett *
Seiller Waterman
Schiller Osbourn Barnes & Maloney *
Thompson Miller & Simpson *
$10,000
Louisville Bar Foundation
Joe Satterly
$9,000
Siebert & Johnson *
$7,500
Paul A. Casi II
Darby & Gazak *
Oldfather Law Firm
Reed Weitkamp Schell & Vice *
Tachau Meek*
Whonsetler & Johnson *
$6,000
Aguiar Law Office *
Bubalo Rotman
Landrum & Shouse *
Lloyd & McDaniel
Morgan & Pottinger
Sitlinger McGlincy & Theiler *
$5,000
Kentucky Justice Association
$4,500
Grossman & Moore
$3,000
Bolus Law Offices
Conliffe Sandman & Sullivan
Keith Kamenish
Kentuckiana Court Reporters
David Lambertus
Miller & Falkner
Miller Wells
Brett Oppenheimer
Hans G. Poppe Jr.
Reed Wicker *
Smith & Hoskins
Tilford Dobbins Alexander
Valenti Hanley & Robinson
Weber & Rose
Weiss & Cobb
$2,500
Cox & Mazzoli
Reminger
$2,400
Fore Miller & Schwartz
$1,500
Atkins & Atkins
Thomas E. Clay
Rob Eggert
Faulkner Kaelin Law Office
Wes Faulkner
Gwin Steinmetz & Baird
Mark G. Hall
Hummel Coan Miller Sage & Rose
Kaufman Stigger & Hughes
Priddy Cutler Miller & Meade
Schafer Law Office
J. Andrew White & Associates
Zielke Law Firm
Zoppoth Law Firm
$1,200
William R. Kenealy
$1,000
Coulter Court Reporting
Dathorne & Butler
Dilbeck Myers & Harris
Chadwick N. Gardner
Hughes & Coleman
Sewell O’Brien & Neal
Dave Scott
Aubrey Williams
Wilt & Associates
$500
Chuppe Soergel Abell & Arnold
Brendan McLeod
Travis & Herbert
Erwin Roberts
$350
Justin C. Brown
$333.33
Matthew J. Farra
$300
Sam Carl
Judge William L. Knopf
Lohman Law Office
Melanie Schneider
John Frith Stewart
* Denotes Leadership Partners
The LBA’s Litigation and Young Lawyers Sections teamed up with the Legal Committee of the Young Professionals Association of Louisville to hold a fundraiser for JCUP on November 5. Bistro 301 provided food and Jefferson Audio Video Systems, which is installing new technology in the courtrooms of Jefferson Circuit Court, donated a mini iPad that was raffled at the event. More than $2,000 was raised thanks to the generosity of the following contributors: Sean Deskins, Justin Key, Nicole Maddox, Ashley Michael, Katherine Dozier, Tom Goodwin, Peter Wayne, Rebecca Weis, Amy Wheeler, Allison Minton and Daniel Mudd.
