LEXINGTON, Ky.—Leadership Kentucky has selected Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney Walt Robertson as a member of the 2015 Leadership Kentucky program. The 51-member class participates in monthly two-day sessions from June through December at locations throughout Kentucky. Topics covered this year will include: leadership, Kentucky history, education, healthcare, government, energy, economic development, public relations, natural resources and environment.

Robertson is a Member (Partner) of Stites & Harbison in the Business & Corporate Services Group based in the Lexington office. His practice focuses on equine law, commercial finance, corporate finance and securities, corporate general services and mergers and acquisitions. Outside of the firm, Robertson is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Kentucky teaching Equine Law in the College of Agriculture. Robertson is named on the Rising Stars list of Kentucky Super Lawyers^®.

Leadership Kentucky, created in 1984 as a non-profit educational organization, brings together a selected group of people that possess a broad variety of leadership abilities, career accomplishments, and volunteer activities to gain insight into complex issues facing the state. Its goal is to prepare participants to take an active role in advancing the state for the common good.