Brian Haara

Brian F. Haara is a partner at Fultz Maddox Dickens PLC in Louisville, Kentucky, where he represents clients in the financial services, insurance, and bourbon industries. His litigation practice includes fiduciary liability, insurance coverage, employment, and business disputes, and he counsels distilleries, warehousing operations, vintage spirits bars, and bourbon brands on trademark, contract, and vintage spirits matters. Chambers USA ranks him in general commercial litigation in Kentucky, and he is a longtime Kentucky Super Lawyers selection in business litigation. Haara is the author of Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America (Potomac Books, 2018), which tells the history of bourbon through lawsuits among early distillers, and he writes about bourbon history and law on his blog, Sipp'n Corn. He speaks frequently at CLE programs, bar meetings, and bourbon events, appeared in the documentary Straight Up: Kentucky Bourbon, and is involved with the Bourbon Crusaders, a nonprofit that raises money for charities through bourbon events and auctions. He received his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law.