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:
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Editorial
Committee, Kentucky Bar Association
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Director,
Kentucky Defense Council
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Board member,
University of Louisville Pediatric Foundation
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Vice President
& Board member of the Kentucky Pediatric Foundation
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Regional
Director of the Defense Research Institute (DRI)
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State
Representative for Defense Research Institute (DRI)
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The Filson Club
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The Harvard
Club of Western Kentucky
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Cherokee
Triangle Neighborhood Trustee
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Board member,
Summit Academy
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In-class
volunteer for Junior Achievement
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Citizens for
Better Judges
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Junior League
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Regional
coordinator for High School Mock Trial in Tennessee
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Mock Trial
Judge for local high school competition sponsored by the Kentucky
Administration Office of the Courts
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Guest Speaker
at the School for the Blind for the legal profession and at their Mock
Trial competition
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Volunteer at
Wayside Christian Mission
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Volunteer
foster care for the Kentucky Humane Society
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Volunteers for
Habitat for Humanity
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Judge for
college debate tournaments
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Coach for high
school and college debaters
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Volunteers at
St. Joseph's Children's Home
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Volunteers at
Trinity High School
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Volunteer
football coach for the 7th and 8th grade team at St. Agnes/St. Francis
school
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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
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Board Member,
Bonnycastle Homestead Association
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Volunteer
Haunted House worker every October, with all event proceeds going to
charity
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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
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State Director
and Board Member, Yorkshire Terrier National Rescue
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Volunteer with
Kentucky Derby Festival activities, including selling Pegasus Pins and a
member of the Pacing Committee for the Pegasus Parade
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Louisville Derby
Festival Marathon and Mini Marathon
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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
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Individual or
O'Bryan, Brown & Toner Contributions and/or Memorials to:
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The American
Cancer Society
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The Alzheimer=s
Association
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The Hemophilia
Association
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The American
Heart Association
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The Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society
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Big Brothers/Big
Sisters
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Angel Tree
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The Greater
Louisville Irish Society
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Junior
Achievement Golf Marathon
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Special Olympics
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Hurricane Katrina
relief
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Home of the
Innocence
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The Carter Center
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Habitat for
Humanity
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Mercy Corps
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Humane Society
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Catholic
Charities
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International Red
Cross
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Shamrock Animal
Foundation, including Art for the Animals
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Woodstock Animal
Foundation
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Lifebridge Food
Bank
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Bears on Patrol
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Bellewood Presbyterian
Home for Children
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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
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Adoption of a
needy family during the holiday season, with contributions from both the
firm and from individuals to provide food, money and gifts
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Care packages for
soldiers
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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.
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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!
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