is a member (partner) in the Louisville office of Stites & Harbison PLLC, chair of the firm's business litigation service group, and co-chair of the class action practice team. He has an extensive practice in class actions, fiduciary duty litigation, appellate proceedings, data breach litigation, and a broad range of other commercial and business litigation matters. Mr. McTighe has practiced in a number of state and federal courts, and successfully argued a number of matters of first impression resulting in published appellate decisions. He is proud to have earned the respect and confidence of his clients and peers, as reflected in peer-review, client ratings and his appointment as a special justice to the Kentucky Supreme Court in 2023. Representative cases include a pair of published decisions establishing and addressing fiduciary duties of LLC members in Kentucky, a decision establishing the standards for contractual appraisal proceedings in a partnership agreement in Kentucky; and which included reversal of a $1.2 million judgment and entry of a judgment awarding damages and fees to his client, and summary judgment for the defendants in a putative class action asserting RICO violations and a host of other claims, which was affirmed on appeal by the Sixth Circuit. Mr. McTighe also is a regular presenter at CLEs and has authored various articles and publications.