Kerrick Bachert PSC

What the firm does

Based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Kerrick Bachert PSC runs a second office in Glasgow and represents clients in state and federal courts across the state. The practice leans toward business and commercial work, though it reaches well past that. In my opinion, the clearest way to read this firm is as a general business practice with a wide set of adjacent services attached to it.

The two offices give the firm a presence in more than one Kentucky community. Bowling Green is the main location, and Glasgow provides a second base. The firm says its attorneys handle matters at both the trial level and on appeal.

Focus and practice areas

The website sets out a long list of practice areas, and they sort into a few clear groups. What follows keeps to the areas the firm names for itself.

Business and commercial work

On the business side, the firm lists commercial litigation, business consulting, contracts, formations, and reorganization. It also covers banking and finance, real estate, and insurance defense. This looks like the core of the practice, and several attorneys work within it.

Intellectual property and regulated fields

Intellectual property forms another clear strand, with copyright, patent, and trademark work. The firm also lists employment counseling and litigation, trucking and transportation, health care law, property and casualty matters, and environmental law. Higher education law appears on the list as well.

Services for individuals

For individual clients, the published areas run to personal injury, consumer bankruptcy, probate and estate administration, and estate planning with wills and trusts. Federal criminal defense and general civil litigation round out the list. That spread lets one firm handle both a company's needs and a person's.

How the team is built

The site names a group of attorneys and splits them, in effect, into shareholders and associates. Their stated focuses line up with the practice areas above.

Shareholders

Scott A. Bachert is a shareholder whose work centers on business and corporate law, banking, and bankruptcy. He handles debtor-creditor rights, business formation, contracts, and reorganization, and he represents banks in closing services and real estate title examination.

Laura Marie Hagan, also a shareholder, concentrates on intellectual property. She holds a J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law and a B.H.S. from the University of Kentucky. She advises clients on trademark, copyright, and patent matters, including brand protection, clearance searches, and licensing.

Shawn Rosso Alcott is a shareholder who practices health care, medical malpractice, and environmental law. She earned a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law. Her work includes regulatory compliance and the analysis of expert testimony.

Associates and other attorneys

Colton W. Givens joined the firm in 2018 as an associate. His civil litigation practice takes in insurance defense, business litigation, employment law, higher education law, and personal injury, and he handles state and federal cases at trial and on appeal. He served as a law clerk for a judge before joining.

Matthew P. Cook works on appeals and appellate matters, business law, and employment law, along with general civil cases. Natalie Feldman focuses on real estate, and she earned a B.A. from Western Kentucky University in 2009 with a major in sociology and a minor in criminology.

Hope Hickey is an associate and a bankruptcy attorney. A Bowling Green native, she graduated from South Warren High School. Lucas H.C. Wetton is listed as a criminal law attorney, and Catherine S. Clemons and Thomas N. Kerrick round out the named lawyers on the site.

What the record shows

The firm says its attorneys hold more than 150 years of combined experience. That figure is the firm's own, and it points to a group of lawyers with long careers rather than to any single case result.

One named marker of standing comes from Thomas N. Kerrick, who was nominated for the 2020 Kentucky Bar Association presidency. As a reviewer, I read a bar association nomination as a sign of engagement with the wider profession in the state.

Who the firm may suit

The mix here points to a practice that can serve businesses and individuals from the same roster. A company that needs help with formation, contracts, or a commercial dispute would find several attorneys working in those areas. The same holds for someone dealing with intellectual property, real estate, or a bankruptcy filing.

Coverage across trial and appellate courts, in both state and federal systems, suggests the firm can follow a matter through its stages. The breadth of practice areas is the firm's most visible feature, and the named attorneys give each area a face and a stated focus.

Readers weighing the firm can check the published attorney list and practice areas against their own needs. What the site sets out is a Kentucky practice with two offices, a business core, and a set of services for individuals alongside it.