Rebecca F. Schupbach
Partner
Rebecca Schupbach brings more than three decades of litigation and advisory experience to her clients, with a distinguished career focused on the defense of complex product liability, toxic tort, legal and medical malpractice, trucking accident, and personal injury claims. Known for her strategic advocacy and courtroom acumen, Ms. Schupbach has secured numerous defense verdicts and favorable appellate outcomes throughout her career.
In addition to her trial work, she has advised national and regional corporate clients on a wide range of regulatory and compliance issues involving OSHA, the FDA, the TTB, and the CPSC. Her practice also includes litigation involving ERISA benefits, as well as health and safety, insurance, environmental, and labeling matters.
Before co-founding Napier Gault Schupbach & Moore in 2013, Ms. Schupbach was a partner at two of Kentucky’s leading law firms and served as Senior Attorney and Assistant Secretary for Brown-Forman Corporation. She earned her J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law, where she was a member of the Kentucky Law Journal and the National Moot Court Team, and holds a B.A. with highest honors from the University of Kentucky.
She is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell, has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America and Kentucky Super Lawyers®, and was named among Louisville’s Top Lawyers in Product Liability Defense. She has served in leadership roles within the Louisville Bar Association, the Citizens for Better Judges initiative, and the Kentucky Bar Association Ethics Committee.
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Direct: (502) 855-3804
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Defense of Product Liability
Toxic Tort
Legal and Medical Malpractice
Trucking Accident Cases
Personal Injury Litigation
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At Trial
Ms. Schupbach has tried over two dozen cases in Kentucky and Tennessee during her practice and has obtained defense verdicts or verdicts generally favorable to her clients in most of those cases. She has also argued multiple cases to the Kentucky Court of Appeals and Kentucky Supreme Court and has obtained favorable results in most of those cases.
Before Trial
Ms. Schupbach has defended various defendants in over a hundred cases and has prepared many of those cases for trial before obtaining favorable resolutions for her clients.
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AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants, 2011-2014 and Product Liability Litigation-Defendants, 2013-2014
Recognized by her peers as a Kentucky Super Lawyer® 2013
Recognized as one of the Top Lawyers in the area of Product Liability Law-Defense by Louisville Magazine, April 2013
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Ms. Schupbach has made multiple presentations at programs sponsored by the Louisville Bar Association, the Kentucky Bar Association and the Product Liability Advisory Council.
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2001 to 2017 – Sustaining Member, Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC)
Defense Research Institute
American Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association
Louisville Bar Association
1996-2013 – Member, KBA Ethics Committee and Hotline
1995 – President, Louisville Bar Association
Past President, Citizens for Better Judges
Member, Attorney Advisory Committee, Citizens for Better Judges
Past Member, Attorneys Steering Committee, Citizens for Better Judges
1991-1992 – Member, Task Force on Gender Fairness in the Courts
(Joint appointment by KBA President and Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice)
1987 – President, Women Lawyers Association of Jefferson County
Civic Activities
Leadership Louisville
Leadership Kentucky
Past President, Walden Theatre
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Juris Doctor, University of Kentucky College of Law, 1981
Member, Kentucky Law Journal
Member, University of Kentucky National Moot Court Team
Bachelor of Art, with highest honors, University of Kentucky, 1973
Phi Beta Kappa