THE OBT COMMUNITY

Community & Charitable Involvement of OBT Attorneys & Staff:

       O'Bryan, Brown & Toner, PLLC has a strong interest and commitment to our community.  We strive to be good citizens by our involvement with organizations and individuals who are working hard to address community concerns.  We actively support many local organizations, charities, civic activities, events and celebrations.  By doing so, we hope to make our community a stronger, safer, better place in which to live and work!  As you will see from the following, ever evolving and growing list, our attorneys and staff have a wide range of community interests and concerns: 

  • Editorial Committee, Kentucky Bar Association

  • Director, Kentucky Defense Council

  • Board member, University of Louisville Pediatric Foundation

  • Vice President & Board member of the Kentucky Pediatric    Foundation

  • Regional Director of the Defense Research Institute (DRI)

  • State Representative for Defense Research Institute (DRI)

  • The Filson Club

  • The Harvard Club of Western Kentucky

  • Cherokee Triangle Neighborhood Trustee

  • Board member, Summit Academy

  • In-class volunteer for Junior Achievement

  • Citizens for Better Judges

  • Junior League

  • Regional coordinator for High School Mock Trial in Tennessee

  • Mock Trial Judge for local high school competition sponsored by the Kentucky Administration Office of the Courts

  • Guest Speaker at the School for the Blind for the legal profession and at their Mock Trial competition

  • Volunteer at Wayside Christian Mission

  • Volunteer foster care for the Kentucky Humane Society

  • Volunteers for Habitat for Humanity

  • Judge for college debate tournaments

  • Coach for high school and college debaters

  • Volunteers at St. Joseph's Children's Home

  • Volunteers at Trinity High School

  • Volunteer football coach for the 7th and 8th grade team at St. Agnes/St. Francis school

  • Board member, grant writer, and bookkeeper for the First Gethsemane Center for Family Development, Inc., which serves the communities of Algonquin, Park Hill, Arcadia, Park Duvall and Iroquois

  • Board Member, Bonnycastle Homestead Association

  • Volunteer Haunted House worker every October, with all event proceeds going to charity

  • Community theater; both on-stage and behind the scenes with several local community theaters, including Mummers & Minstrels productions, supporting such organizations as the Audio Studio for the Reading Impaired, Bellewood Home for Children, and the Anchorage School Auditorium

  • State Director and Board Member, Yorkshire Terrier National Rescue

  • Volunteer with Kentucky Derby Festival activities, including selling Pegasus Pins and a member of the Pacing Committee for the Pegasus Parade

  • Louisville Derby Festival Marathon and Mini Marathon

  • Membership, activity, service, and participation with many area churches as Sunday School teachers, youth group leaders, Elders, Deacons, Bible study leaders, nursery assistant, and all the volunteer activity associated with those memberships, including soup kitchens, and work with world-wide disaster relief organizations

 

  • Individual or O'Bryan, Brown & Toner Contributions and/or Memorials to:

  • The American Cancer Society

  • The Alzheimer=s Association

  • The Hemophilia Association

  • The American Heart Association

  • The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

  • Big Brothers/Big Sisters

  • Angel Tree

  • The Greater Louisville Irish Society

  • Junior Achievement Golf Marathon

  • Special Olympics

  • Hurricane Katrina relief

  • Home of the Innocence

  • The Carter Center

  • Habitat for Humanity

  • Mercy Corps

  • Humane Society

  • Catholic Charities

  • International Red Cross

  • Shamrock Animal Foundation, including Art for the Animals

  • Woodstock Animal Foundation

  • Lifebridge Food Bank

  • Bears on Patrol

  • Bellewood Presbyterian Home for Children

 

  • Membership in The Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), which holds a Community Challenge Weekend project each fall to provide gifts, money, time and talent to a local school or organization in need of assistance

  • Adoption of a needy family during the holiday season, with contributions from both the firm and from individuals to provide food, money and gifts

  • Care packages for soldiers

  • Dare to Care Food Bank donations are collected during the month of November for Thanksgiving baskets.  This year, our individual donations were matched by an anonymous attorney.

  • Whenever someone in the firm has a hospitalization, birth or death in the family, we band together to coordinate a A helping hands@ food delivery to make their lives a little easier.

 

We strongly believe it is important for us to "give back" and we hope our involvement shows a trend for caring, sharing, and building a better community!