Thomas Travis is a member of the Firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Service Team.  He represents a broad range of clients in a variety of cases, including appellate practice, constitutional law, commercial litigation and transactional matters.

Professional Experience

• Clerk for Chief Justice John D. Minton, Jr., Supreme Court of Kentucky
• Legal Fellow for United States Senator Rand Paul

Education

J.D., cum laude, University of Kentucky College of Law

Executive Editor, Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Law

Vice President, The Federalist Society

Senior Editor and Founding Member, UK Election Law Society

Moot Court Board

CALI Awards: Constitutional Law, Election Law

Best Brief, Marshall Writing Club, 2015

B.S., summa cum laude, Western Kentucky University, (Finance)

Award of Excellence scholarship recipient

President, Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

Financial Management Association, 2012

Distinctions

• Recognized by his peers as a Kentucky Super Lawyers® Rising Star in the area of Business Litigation, 2024-2025
• Recognized by Best Lawyers® as “Ones to Watch" in Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Labor and Employment, 2021-2025

Professional Activities

• Kentucky Bar Association
• Vice Chair, Appellate Advocacy Division
• Member, Young Lawyers Division
• Fayette County Bar Association

• Sparkman v. Consol Energy, Inc., 571 S.W.3d 569 (Ky. 2019) – assisted appellate team on a matter of first impression relating to tortious interference of contract
• Marshall v. Compton, 2018-CA-000899-MR (Ky. App. 2019) – successfully defended summary judgment for school district employees (discretionary review pending before the Kentucky Supreme Court)
• Walker v. Ragurai, LLC, et al., Fayette Circuit Court Civil Action No. 16-CI-01551 – obtained summary judgment for brand licensor in hotel wrongful death action
• Represents a wide range of clients in appellate matters in state and federal appellate courts, including drafting amicus curiae briefs on matters of state constitutional law
• Represents county boards of education in numerous matters, including actions based on alleged personal injuries or violations of statutory or constitutional rights, as well as employment and labor disputes
• Represents state agencies and local governments in matters involving Kentucky’s Open Records Act, Open Meetings Act, and other issues of statutory and constitutional law
• Represents state universities in matters involving internal employment and civil rights disputes
• Represents commercial lessors in preparation and review of leases, amendments, and other related documents
• Represents financial institutions in mortgage litigation
• Represents architects and design professionals in a wide variety of construction litigation
• Represents members of the equine industry in matters involving state regulators, statutory and regulatory interpretation and construction, and equine transaction disputes
• Represents investment group in complex commercial equine litigation

News

Blog Posts

• The Federalist Society Executive Committee on Free Speech and Election Law
• President of the Central Kentucky Lawyers' Chapter of the Federalist Society
• Leadership Lexington Class of 2022