Our Origin Story

Those who inquire seeking representation at Amos Jones Law Firm ordinarily are supplied our Firm’s prospectus that sets out who we are, where we are coming from, and why we fight the fights we choose to fight.

In mid-July 2026, in the thick of the high-profile representation of Fayette County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Demetrus Liggins in Principal Amos Jones’s hometown of Lexington, Ky., we received an inquiry from an independent publisher whose questions led us to provide that kind of deep understanding of where we are coming from right here on our Web site.

We share our origin story by way of direct response to all of the inquirer’s questions and/or requests for confirmation.

“We are preparing a story examining your professional background and litigation history in the context of your representation of Dr. Demetrus Liggins in his dispute with the Fayette County Board of Education.”

1. In 2002, before attending law school, you sued Lexington H-L Services (the Herald-Leader), a supervisor, and related entities in Fayette Circuit Court (No. 02-CI-01054), alleging racial and religious discrimination, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent supervision, and invasion of privacy; that the suit followed a written demand to raise your voluntary buyout from $7,800 to $48,603; that the circuit court granted summary judgment against you on all claims in July 2003; and that the Kentucky Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed in an unpublished opinion (No. 2003-CA-002072-MR, Dec. 17, 2004).

Yes, I did, and nothing has animated my drive to represent employees wronged by employers and inept judges more than that lawsuit and the conduct of the Kentucky judges in it in my hometown and home state. In fact, I have centered this lawsuit and Judge Thomas Clark – who was later reversed unanimously by the Kentucky Supreme Court when I challenged another wrongful dismissal he did after I’d begun practicing law, 2010-14 – in my scholarship and in my career fighting for employees who, like me, were abused at work and then re-abused within the legal system, too, whether by ill-equipped lawyers, unjust judges, or some combination. See the scholarly treatment of this precise Herald-Leader case (mine), which has been posted at my Web site www.professorjones.us continuously over the last nine years and which has been published for 20 years now as Amos N. Jones, Setting Aside the Will of the Plaintiffs: How and Why the 1950s School-Desegregation Strategy Marginalized Experiences of Black Self-Determination in Unequal Schools and Examples of Black Self-Sufficiency in Equalization Plans, 23 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (2006), https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol23/iss2/2 . I presented this paper among others when I was interviewing for my law-faculty positions.

As a threshold matter, it is important to recall that the Ku Klux Klan was founded in a white judge’s law office not far from Lexington. That terrorist group was organized in 1865 by an evil jurist, when, as the Encyclopedia of Virginia notes, a group of six Confederate veterans met in the Pulaski, Tenn., law office of Judge Thomas M. Jones to form the secret club. It quickly evolved into a violent terrorist organization aimed at restricting the rights of newly freed African-Americans during Reconstruction. It was smashingly successful across the South for the next 100-plus years. The Herald-Leader had to repent of its professionalized racism in a dramatic mea culpa that came out while my lawsuit was pending as I studied at Harvard Law School. See, e.g., Newspaper Apologizes For Lack Of 1960's Civil Rights Coverage. Their ongoing battle with me – and Thomas Clark’s embarrassing ruling – embarrassed the state wherever I went. I continue to tell my story and to cite the newspaper’s defense of how I was mistreated.

By way of background, I filed my Herald-Leader lawsuit filed back when I was a 23-year-old News Copy Editor for the Lexington Herald-Leader after having transferred from my first post-college year at The Charlotte Observer. Both papers were owned then by Knight Ridder. I had worked every Winter Break on the 4:30 to 12:30 a.m. shift as a full-time journalist editing news stories, writing headlines, and making certain that our newspaper did not libel subjects – and also did page-proofing as a master of the local and Associated Press style books. My lawsuit centered on Copy Desk Chief Peter Mathews’s sexual harassment, as my white-male lawyer in the case (Jeff Thompson of Louisville) pleaded; Peter, among other things you can read in the Complaint, had posted on the Lexington Herald-Leader intranet that I was engaged in sadomasochism and bondage with colleague Susan Waggener, a white female copy editor in her 50s, and declined to remove it voluntarily when I objected. He disputed that I objected, leaving a triable issue of fact for a jury (the judge took it away from the jury). Meanwhile, I tried to get a better job in a non-hostile work environment, to move on in peace; but the Herald-Leader got in the way of that, too.

Managing Editor Tom Eblen’s deposition testimony revealed that he blocked the recruitment from the Detroit Free Press – where I’d interned in Summer 1999 and where legendary Copy Desk Chief Alex Cruden had called to ask me to apply for two jobs because, he had declared in 1999, they’d never enjoyed an intern more than they’d enjoyed me (his words). (I spent New Year’s Eve 1999, then 22 years old and a Senior at Emory University, working my normal holiday shift on the copy desk at the Herald-Leader, I was so devoted to the newspaper and my craft, walking out at 12:30 a.m. after a night’s work serving our community.)

Prior to the lawsuit and amidst my efforts to transfer or find other employment, the Herald-Leader had offered me a buyout along with several other journalists including Merlene Davis in an unrelated set of downsizing. Many of us rejected the buyout. So did I. The buyout had nothing to do with the claims, except to indicate evidence that the Herald-Leader was interested in having me leave at the time that my supervisor was posting sexually and religiously harassing intranet material suggesting that Susan Waggener, with whom I had no romantic relations, was being caned by me.

Tom Eblen’s comments to the Detroit Free Press were followed by that newspaper’s withdrawal of any interest in my candidacy. Victimized and correct, and with a stellar career in journalism wrecked on purpose, I sued. My white-male lawyer served me through the Court of Appeals in 2024. In seeking resolution, I suggested a remedy far less than what a jury would have awarded on those facts. Unfortunately we drew Judge Clark, who was a far more effective football player for the University of Kentucky than he was a jurist. Known for dismissing Black men’s employment cases at summary judgment, he was so incompetent that I had to address it.

That’s why, just four years after I finished Harvard Law School, three years after my Fulbright at Melbourne’s Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, and just months after concluding three totally successful years at Bryan Cave LLP in Washington to become a constitutional law professor at an HBCU, I, like Harriett Tubman, went back down into the hostile legal environment of Kentucky.

I took over the case of Black Liberation Theologian Dr. Jimmy Kirby, back in 2010 – after his white Kentucky lawyer failed to deliver victories and Thomas Clark  – Kirby v. Lexington Theological Seminary. Judge Clark had thrown his case out before it got started, dismissing it on jurisdictional grounds. Dr. Kirby had alleged race discrimination, breach of contract, and other counts. There hadn’t even been discovery. Kirby was the first tenured Black professor in the history of Lexington Theological Seminary, but tenure did not protect him for a so-called layoff. His white-male lawyer in Lexington failed to win. He hired me. Joined by white-male local counsel Douglas Clifton Howard in Frankfort, we appealed. The all-white-male Kentucky Court of Appeals panel upheld Clark. I petitioned the Kentucky Supreme Court for Discretionary Review. They granted it. I won a 7-0 reversal of all four judges for Dr. Kirby.

All of the four judges were wrong. Judge Clark was exposed.

Dr. Kirby’s case then was settled. It took four years. Joshua Salsburey and Sturgill Turner – who now represent the Fayette County Public Schools – were there. They lost. Big time. Unanimously. In their home state. You might want to check out taxpayer dollars going to their firm; I was in three Kentucky State University whistleblower cases that went the way of Kirby in more-recent years. There was Sturgill Turner, losing. I think they were not in my five cases against Lexington Catholic High School, however – where I once again came down in order to serve people trapped in oppression.

I wish I had had a lawyer like me to fight the Herald-Leader back in 2001-04, when some of their managers set out to destroy my journalism career, despite my fine performance and loyalty. And that’s why I am an employment lawyer for employees abused by their employers and facing judges who might not know the law.

Again, my lawyer in this case who kept losing was Jeff Thompson of Louisville, a good white man, but he worked very hard and built the record; he couldn’t help the fact that Judge Clark always dismissed such cases. A.I. is known to hallucinate and to err in legal cases, so I encourage you to read from this case (1) the Complaint, (2) the brief opposing summary judgment, and (3) the appellant’s opening brief so that you don’t mistake the counts in the complaint and get it wrong. Last week I sued Bloomberg Law in D.C. federal court because of that outlet’s false and deleterious reporting on my civil-rights conspiracy lawsuit pending against Ogletree Deakins. (See JONES v. BLOOMBERG INDUSTRY GROUP, INC. (1:26-cv-01083), District Of Columbia District Court.) They have no serious defense. I have just put that lawsuit on hold as it is about to become a class action.

Again, I have centered this case publicly since 2006, when I exposed Judge Clark in the Georgia State Law Review.  Editor there took note of his failures and the Kentucky Court of Appeals. You can download that article and skip to FN15 for the summary of the case. It has been posted for the last nine years at www.professorjones.us.

Judge Clark’s now-discredited and pattern of illiteracy and incompetence were significant in motivating me to take my Harry S Truman Scholarship to the Harvard Law School in 2003-06 while my lawsuit moved through the Kentucky courts in 2002-04. We had examined the case briefly when I raised it to Derrick Bell in Betty Medsger’s “Race, Ethnicity, and the New Urban America” course at Columbia Journalism School in Spring 2003. After it was dismissed, the Kentucky Court of Appeals became a laughingstock at the Harvard Law School, contributing to an unfortunate and misplaced assumption among ultra-elite law students and lawyers that state courts are ruled by fools. I disagree. I respect state courts, which is why my first case in my private firm back n 2010 returned me straight to Kentucky to reverse the very jurist – Thomas Clark, in Fayette County – who had wrongly dismissed my case.

Today, I recently have contextualized that real and present spiritual problem within my chosen professions. Just four weeks ago I published an on-point article in a University of Chicago Journal arising from the curative work we are doing in the National Conference of Black Lawyers, on whose board I serve. See Amos N. Jones, Why a Historic Black Lawyers’ Group Just Established a Disciplinary-Counsel Watchdog Section, The Chicago Black Policy Review, Online Edition, Vol. 3, 2026, at https://blackpolicyreview.rso.uchicago.edu/why-a-historic-black-lawyers-group-just-established-a-disciplinary-counsel-watchdog-section/.

Lexington is near and dear to me because my family was central to the Civil Rights Movement, including racist coverage of Blacks in “Colored Notes.” My late grandfather and another pastor led 250 protestors to stand in at the Herald downtown I the early 1960s over the famously bigoted Fred Wachs’s harassment of our church and our community. An economic boycott followed. You can read about the Joneses’ contributions to ending white Apartheid in Kentucky in the displays of the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame or in my book “Historical Abstract of the Henry Wise Jones Family 2007,” also available for download at www.professorjones.us.\

I have a moral obligation to go back down into Kentucky to help rescue other people who, like me, find themselves trapped in injustice in my home state, following in the Jones Family traditions and standards that go back more than 100 years across Lexington, Louisville, and even Owensboro. Listen to my Aunt Sylvia describe the 1964 March on Frankfort, provided to University of Kentucky historians at Liggins co-Counsel Bill Davis’s law office November 29, 2021. You can watch, listen, and/or read at Interview with Sylvia Harris, November 29, 2021 · SPOKEdb.

As noted there, “Sylvia Jones Harris is the daughter of William Augustus Jones Sr., the longtime pastor of historic Pleasant Green Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky and a prominent civil rights leader in Central Kentucky. As such, she, along with her immediate and extended family served on the front lines of the movement. Harris attended the 1964 March on Frankfort as a teenager and rode one of four buses from her father's church. She spoke of her multiple arrests on behalf of the movement, as well as the various civil rights leaders who visited her home such as James Farmer and Fred Shuttlesworth. She also noted that her father was the college roommate of ‘Daddy King,’ Martin Luther King Jr.'s father. Harris was a soprano singer and attended the University of Kentucky on a music scholarship. Harris considers the role of protests and young people in attaining equality. Harris then articulates the impact of desegregation on her life as a teenager in the 1960s. Harris concludes the interview with a reflection on her recent work in activism, including opposing the Iraq War alongside her husband, who preached against the war in his sermons.” The white Lexington police threw her in jail when she was a tween, and they would not reveal where they’d taken her. It’s a harrowing story of discrimination, harassment, and the breakdown of law in your hometown.

I sued the Herald-Leader under Kentucky’s Civil Rights Act of 1966. I thank my family, our church, and the Kentucky State Legislature for passing that law, even if Thomas Clark vitiated it every time I encountered him.  

I continue to center what we saw in these Thomas Clark cases in my academic work. See, e.g, Amos N. Jones, Ames, The Seventh Amendment, and the Honest Belief Trap Tautologizing Title VII, 78 SMU L. Rev. F. 86 (2025), which tracked my representation of University of Michigan Law Professor Dr. Laura Beny in her petition to the Supreme Court of the United States last fall.

I likewise addressed the problem of  “judges who just lie” in the Tulsa Law Review symposium at the 100^th anniversary of the Greenwood white massacre back in 2021. You can watch that 15-minute address at ATHP Chief on Court Reform at Tulsa Law Review's Centennial Observance of Greenwood Massacre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck4H2R1t1jA

Read also the published scholarship at Amos N. Jones, Juridical Intimidation From Greenwood Onward: Systemic Racism, Economic Terror, and a Call for Curative Court Reform, 57 Tulsa L. Rev. 155 (2022), available at: https://digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/tlr/vol57/iss1/14

2. You later sued two former employers — Campbell University (E.D.N.C. No. 5:20-cv-00029-BO, voluntarily dismissed 2021; cert denied Oct. 2, 2023) and the Catholic University of America (dismissed 2019, affirmed by the D.C. Court of Appeals 2023; cert denied Nov. 13, 2023).

This incorrect statement might be another A.I. hallucination. I have never been employed by The Catholic University of America. Represented by Arinderjit Dhali and other counsel, I sued both universities in the same lawsuit – as co-defendants – with Campbell University, and the D.C. judge who (improperly) severed those cases into two was later investigated and exposed. See, e.g., Supreme Court Petition: Judge Who Faced Complaints of Racial Bias, Abuse, Sat on Disciplinary Review Panel That Cleared Him - The Westside Gazette. Catholic’s tortious interference is why they were sued. You can watch the entire oral argument against Catholic on my YouTube channel, which has been posted since days after I conducted it in September 2020: Amos Jones v. Catholic University of America Oral Argument at D.C. Court of Appeals, Sept. 19, 2020.

I subscribe to the Mamie Till model of moral transparency: “Let the world see what they have done.”  

The Supreme Court of the United States declined to reverse the Court of Appeals, the same way they decided that Dred Scott and Homer Plessy were wrong. Just because a judge rules against you does not mean you are wrong; it just means you lost in court. This is why primary sources are so important to recognize and read.

As for the Campbell case, the final disposition of that case is that I won my motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice in that case after they had offered a $250,000 statement and positive letter of reference written by Dean Rich Leonard. I appealed to the Supreme Court over a $7,000 deposition fee the judge ordered that was in error; I had defeated Campbell in every other respect.

To avoid erroneous statements about those two cases, I invite you to read the Certiorari petitions in both cases, which contain the actual records.

You can watch a summary of the legacy of my successful Campbell University litigation at Alumni of Black law school (NCCU) outraged over embattled white dean Rich Leonard's appointment, which aired in 2023, two years after the judge granted my motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice. Be sure to read Docket Entry 127 from October 2020 in the  E.D.N.C. Campbell lawsuit to read about our settlement and victory, over the opposition of failed Campbell University.

This was a great victory under a judge – Terence Boyle – that the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights all but deems another KKK judge, evidently/for all intents and purposes: Oppose the Confirmation of Terrence Boyle - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. I traffic in truth: And Judge Boyle actually did better than Black Liberal Obama Judge Cooper in D.C. in this Campbell case. He even sanctioned Campbell for failure to appear; we were paid.

We must judge people by the content of their character, and not the color of their skin.

3. Your public biographies describe a 2010 Kentucky Supreme Court case as your first court case and do not mention the 2002 lawsuit.

I think you are reading avoidance into a professional distinction that is conventional and standard. When a lawyer speaks of "his first case," he is referring to his professional servicing the licensed practice of law for a client; he may not take credit for another lawyer's prosecution of another client's case, including his own. It would be professionally inaccurate for me to claim credit for Louisville lawyer's Jeff Thompson's identification, initiation, prosecution, and appealing of his firm's Herald-Leader case (banks count attorneys' cases as actual assets of the attorney's practice) over its entirety, from 2002-04, when I did nothing but work as a full-time journalist and student not in the practice of law.

Prior cases where I was a non-lawyer and represented are not "my" cases in the sense of my professional background as a lawyer. In fact, if I had been licensed when I was a working journalist, my case might have unfolded differently, see infra. Prior cases when I worked with the other then-850 lawyers of Bryan Cave from 2007 to 2010 also don't count. Those were not "my cases" in the professional sense. But I do value the Herald-Leader case for informing my drive to serve the marginalized and to reverse inferior judges, and so we might as well center here on our Firm's Web site.

Let's be clear: Kirby (undertaken in 2010, only weeks after I opened this Firm) is my first case as a lawyer at Amos Jones Law Firm. I owned that constitutional case of first impression that effectively overturned two panels of the Kentucky Court of Appeals -- six judges who had invalidated every tenured seminary professor's contract in the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky, see Kentucky Court of Appeals upholds Seminary’s dismissal of professors and Theology Professor’s Discrimination Lawsuit Raises Thorny First Amendment Issues | The EDU Ledger, all in order to keep Dr. Kirby down and out. But I defeated all of those judges, the seminary, and its lawyers. Supreme Court of Kentucky rules in favor of case argued by Professor Jones - News | Campbell University. See also Ky. Supreme Court: Former Seminary Professor Can Proceed with Suit | The EDU Ledger. Our stunning five-year-long victory was of interest to the reviewers when I was named one of the youngest Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, at 41, by Who's Who in America. See Amos Nathanael Jones Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who.

Beyond that important distinction (standard in the profession), you will notice that I rarely specify cases in public biographies other than Kirby because that was a landmark constitutional law case where I proved everybody wrong. Now, from the above, we see how my work was animated by the moral urgency of toppling Judge Thomas Clark, whom we defeated resoundingly after a four-year fight. My lawyer in 2004 could not do what I could do by 2010, for reasons out of his control.

But I notice an evident suggestion of centering the Lexington Herald-Leader lawsuit more plainly, and so I now post this Web page to our Web site to illustrate how it all interlocks. I am proud that we fought the good fight, did not settle, and have built a resilient take-down of Judge Clark at the highest levels and liberated others.

My firm operates in the fearless and relentless tradition of the civil-rights lawyers and academics whom I served as research assistants and who credited me in their writings: Lani Guinier (in From Racial Liberalism to Racial Literacy: Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Divergence Dilemma | JSTOR) and Charles Ogletree, Jr. (in The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America: Ogletree, Charles: 9780230103269: Amazon.com: Books ), God rest their souls. See my comments on those dynamics at Remembering Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023) | The EDU Ledger (Aug. 6, 2023) https://www.theeduledger.com/demographics/african-american/article/15543704/remembering-professor-charles-j-ogletree-jr-19522023  and
Remembering Legal Scholar Lani Guinier | The EDU Ledger (Jan. 9, 2022), https://www.theeduledger.com/latest-news/article/15287034/remembering-legal-scholar-lani-guinier.

- Is there anything in the Court of Appeals' account of the 2002 case you dispute, or context you believe is missing? Were you represented by counsel in that case, and did you seek discretionary review in the Kentucky Supreme Court?

As noted above, we entirely dispute how the Court of Appeals ignored the pleading and counts in the Complaint and produced a straw man that was not our core allegations. My lawyer from start to finish was Jeff Thompson of Louisville, a good white man. After the Court of Appeals affirmed, we were left with no confidence to request discretionary review for the reasons I stated in Footnote 15 in my 2006 Georgia State Law Review article that’s been posted on my Web site for the last nine years.

 
- Is there a reason the 2002 case is absent from your public biographies?

As may be readily inferred from the details on this page, most of what I do and have done in Lexington, Atlanta, and Charlotte is absent from my public biographies. The Herald-Leader case in which my white-male Kentucky lawyer alone was professional responsible is all over the public domain, including in scholarship pre-dating my licensure. I rarely cite to cases in my public biographies (the exception is Kirby, as explained). I manage approximately 30-40 various kinds of cases at any given time, very few of them ever requiring court, which is a value-killer for all parties. I have resolved more than 150 matters since establishing my Firm in 2010. I also would rather not embarrass my home state and specific professionals and judges in it who freeze when you ask them about their conduct in these matters; nevertheless, since you've asked, I am happy to tell all. Read the case documents. Read the affidavits from the African-American journalists voluntarily filed at summary judgment who catalogued the discrimination they witnessed and/or endured in that workplace. It's all in public, thank goodness. Just like Dred Scott and Homer Plessy, we were discounted. It was happening to Dr. Kirby, too -- but I knew the nature of the beast, intervened, practiced, persevered, and won. 

All but one or two of my actual cases, as I recall, are absent from my biographies. I will choose to anchor Kirby (and sometimes EDMC, where I overturned two federal judges in a 3-0 reversal in the Third Circuit). As explained by the global media at the time and as summarized above, it is an incredibly important, constitutional, landmark case. It is cited all the time in other litigants' cases. We proved every judge in the state who'd gone against Dr. Kirby wrong – and a wonderful, all-white supreme court in my home state agreed with me and reversed. As I told the judges as a courtesy when I opened oral argument in the courtroom in our glorious State Capitol, "The last time I was in this room was in 1995, serving as Chief Justice of the Model Supreme Court. It is nice to be home." This case is about the arc of redemption and how I am able to serve others whom the judges and local lawyers failed and failed and failed.  

I don’t even list the fact that we, via litigation and advocacy, just shut down the child sex-change chop-shop at Washington Children’s National Hospital last year, which we did. Tucker Carlson’s network centered us in the May 2025 documentary at State of Maryland, CNH Exposed: A Boy-Woman, Affronted Air Force Family, and Limitless Lawfare. The Family Research Council properly credited my work at https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/childrens-national-hospital-discontinues-gender-transition-procedures-for-minors.

I don’t even promote how we are suing Bloomberg Law for their defamatory coverage of my cases and false statements that demand correction and remedies, as much as this story needs to be amplified: Libel Lawsuit: As Amos Jones defeats James Crow Jr. in courts, Bloomberg publishes false headline

- Is there context you would like to add regarding the Campbell and Catholic University litigation?

Yes, in no particular order. Don't take my word for it. Look at what white legal scholars and others have published.

1. See white-Christian-male Dean Paul Caron’s blog post on my Campbell-Catholic case(s) at TaxProf Blog. It's a shame when Christian institutions like Campbell, Catholic, and Lexington Theological Seminary abuse African-Americans, but it is a pattern grounded in American religious history. I am privileged to serve as the Chairman of the Board of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies. Our America 250 symposium co-hosted by Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia in March got into the continuing need for religious freedom for my people, given how evil too many white institutions have been and continue to be when it comes to our presence on earth. I'm so glad that there will be no white racism, no black racism -- no sin -- when I get to heaven. There will be no need for court in heaven.

2. I provided links above, especially the 2023 broadcast I aired that’s been online for years, at Alumni of Black law school (NCCU) outraged over embattled white dean Rich Leonard's appointment.

3. See also my six-year-old ministry Web site that further exposes Campbell University, whom we defeated: Direct Action Ministries, www.directaction.church.  

Final Call veteran reporter Doshon Farad has covered the issues:

Three Attorneys named in D.C. KKK Lawsuit Exit Case!!!

Black Law Professor Files Motion to Disqualify Law Firm!!!

Judge Faced Complaints of Racial Bias sat on own Review Panel!!!

- On July 10 you announced that a settlement had been "agreed in principle"; board chair Tyler Murphy has said no offer was made or accepted and called the suggestion false. What was the basis for the announcement, and what is your response to Mr. Murphy's characterization?
- Is the board's description of a prior demand exceeding the value of the three years remaining on Dr. Liggins' contract accurate?

All of that was asked, answered, and covered Tuesday morning in my Jack Pattie interview, posted for full public listening since Tuesday at https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1acnWY5iUc/ . See the very latest in the comprehensive Wednesday July 15 lead-news report from WDKY's 11 p.m. cast at https://fox56news.com/video/kentucky-attorney-general-upholds-fcps-superintendent-administrative-leave-ruling/11975967. 

- Anything else you believe we should know or include.

Just a few items of possible interest, randomly offered in no particular order.

1.      As a serious Christian, I forgave the persons responsible for the Herald-Leader and Campbell Law School calamities a long time ago. Whether win, lose, or draw, we all are called to try to reconcile and do better. Court is a last resort.

2.      For the plaintiff, though, once court is approached, there is utility in establishing the public record. If nothing else, the record can come clear in the filings of the parties and witnesses. A.I. misses and misstates legal records at times, but it can be a powerful tool in calling our attention generally to the issues in the record. I encourage anybody reporting on legal matters to read the sources for themselves, and to do so carefully. You would be surprised how confused and misdirected secondhand accounts of what is alleged and what has happened – including judicial opinions – can become.

3.      For a history of white transplants who worked to make Lexington anti-Apartheid in the 1950s and 1960s, read my friend Andrew Claster’s post at (1) Andrew Claster - My dad passed away today, age 89. He was in good... | Facebook.

4.      Profiles summarizing who I am and what I am about are published as well at DC Bar - Amos Jones Shows How to Make a Broader Impact as a Solo Attorney

and https://www.ihouse-nyc.org/news_events/alumni-spotlight-amos-jones-03/ .

5.      I learned negotiation and dispute resolution from the best of the very best: Contracts with Robert Mnookin and ADR with Frank E.A. Sander, the Frankfurter clerk and father of modern dispute resolution. I wish that we could resolve disputes the way I resolve 75 percent of my clients’ cases – through private conciliation. However, many defense lawyers’ business models require them to prolong cases for years and years and years in order to bill as many hours as possible. I wish Lexington Seminary, Kentucky State University, Lexington Catholic, and Mayfield Consumer Products had listened ex ante. The only people who have benefitted from these losses seem to be the defense law firms. For years on my Firm's Web site, I have warned the public of the churn-and-burn defense tactic that harms these types of operation's clients, economically and reputationally. Think of all the millions in tax dollars going to these firms, who can't even seem to read an inquiry about negotiating a departure without erroneously calling it a resignation and then guiding a board chair to announce the falsehood to the world on TV, who can't seem to advise their clients on how to announce why a meeting is supposed to enter closed session without having to hear it from the Attorney General, who can't seem to come on live TV and debate me about their legal decisions, their billings, and their disservice to the taxpayers. And then they get re-hired, decade after decade.

Maybe one day somebody will write a long story documenting that waste of public funds and the lack of accountability that allows it to continue. When I visited Lexington three weeks ago, the people of Kentucky I encountered, to a person, were thanking me for making these crooked ways straight. I, in turn, thank God for the ability to see through all such trash, and for the tools to take it out.