Grover Potts is a member of the Firm's Real Estate & Lending Service Team.  He concentrates his practice in the areas of business, real estate, labor and employment, commercial litigation, municipal and zoning law.

Professional Experience

• Assistant Director of Law, City of Louisville, Kentucky
• Captain, U.S. Air Force, Judge Advocate General's Office
• City Attorney, City of Prospect, Kentucky
• General Counsel, Louisville Redevelopment Authority, Inc.

Education

J.D., University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, 1969

B.S.C., University of Louisville, 1966

Distinctions

• Highest Professional Ratings by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
• Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in America® Real Estate Law, 2005-present and Real Estate Litigation 2011-present
• Best Lawyers® Louisville Litigation-Real Estate "Lawyer of the Year," 2012, 2017, 2019, 2021
• Recognized by his peers as one of the Kentucky Super Lawyers® since 2007
• Leadership Louisville, 1987
• Bingham Fellows IV, 1994

Professional Activities

• Louisville, Kentucky and American Bar Associations

Mr. Potts represents a broad range of clients from governmental units and agencies, to closely-held companies and multinational Fortune 500 corporations.  He serves as General Counsel of a multinational dental supply and restoration company.

Mr. Potts has also represented a local redevelopment authority in the first privatization in place of a military installation, Naval Ordnance Station, Louisville, converting the facility to a publicly owned industrial park and preserving over 1,500 jobs for the community.

News

• Greater Louisville, Inc.
• Big Spring Country Club
• President and Member of the Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Community Center, a social service agency, for 20 years
• Board Member and President, Metro Housing Resources, Inc., a developer of low income housing
• Former Counsel to the Board of Directors for the Louisville Collegiate School for 25+ years, Board Member for nine years, and past President
• Past Vice President and member on the Board of Directors of the St. James Court Historical Association
• Past Chair of the St. James Court Art Show, a premier art show with over 700 exhibitors and annual attendance in excess of 350,000 people
• Former President of the Louisville Boat Club
• Past Chair and member of the Board of Regents of Historic Locust Grove, Inc., for nine years