Mr. Hanbury graduated from Centre College of Kentucky in 1978, with double majors in both Economics and Political Science.  Before attending law school, he worked as a business analyst with Dun & Bradstreet.  He is a 1982 graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law.  Mr. Hanbury began his legal career with the firm of VanAntwerp, Monge, Jones & Edwards in Ashland, Kentucky. He became a partner in the firm in 1986 and became a managing partner in 1990.  In 1993, Mr. Hanbury started his own law firm in Ashland, Kentucky with two other partners.  Over the next ten years, the firm more than doubled in size to six attorneys, two paralegals, and seven support staff.  Most recently, Mr. Hanbury served as Director of Resources and Risk Management for the University of Southern Mississippi, where he advised the President and senior university administrators on a wide variety of business matters, including employment issues, contracts, corporate start-ups and intellectual property matters.

Throughout his legal career, Mr. Hanbury has represented businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, banks, insurance companies, and small businesses on a wide variety of complex commercial transactions, employment matters, and litigation.  He has broad experience with negotiating, drafting and litigating sophisticated business transactions, employment matters, banking, financial and business planning, and complex business and tort litigation.  He has extensive experience with employment law, involving at-will and contract employees, and discrimination cases, as well as drafting employee handbooks.  With vast experience with insurance defense litigation, he has the experience to identify, evaluate, and avoid business losses. Mr. Hanbury has first-chair jury trial experience in state and federal courts with approximately 50 trials to verdict, with a 90% success rate.  Experienced in dispute resolution, he is a trained mediator, having mediated numerous cases.