Alex Gardner

Alex Gardner is an associate at Dinsmore in Louisville, Kentucky, who helps individuals and businesses work through financial challenges and legal disputes. His practice includes bankruptcy matters and conflicts involving money owed, contracts, and business relationships. Alex assists clients dealing with debt, asset-protection concerns, or lawsuits and works to identify practical options that fit the circumstances of each matter, including the pressures that often accompany personal or business financial problems.

Alex earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law in 2024 and a B.A. in Philosophy from Colgate University in 2010. In law school, he received CALI awards in Civil Procedure II and Essential Quantitative Skills, volunteered through the Disability Resource Center, and participated in the Entrepreneurship Clinic under a limited practice license. His academic work supports careful analysis of financial, procedural, and business-related legal issues.

Before focusing on bankruptcy and financial disputes, Alex worked with inventors and researchers on agreements for sharing ideas and creating partnerships. He also helped students start businesses, giving him exposure to the legal needs of entrepreneurs and small business owners. That background complements his current bankruptcy practice by helping him understand how contracts, ownership structures, intellectual property arrangements, and business relationships can affect financial stress and the options available when a dispute or insolvency problem develops.

Alex Gardner is admitted in Kentucky and Indiana and before federal district courts in Kentucky and the Southern District of Indiana. His practice combines bankruptcy work with experience involving contracts, business formation, and innovation-related agreements. He focuses on explaining complex issues in understandable terms and helping clients evaluate financial and legal choices. That approach is especially important when individuals or businesses must address debt, protect assets, resolve commercial conflicts, or make decisions under significant financial pressure.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
• Member, Kentucky Bar Association
• Member, Indiana State Bar Association

Licensed State

• Kentucky
• Indiana

Education

• University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD) Magna Cum Laude
• Colgate University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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