Alfred John Welsh

Alfred John Welsh is a Louisville, Kentucky, attorney who represents clients in serious personal injury and wrongful death matters. His practice includes auto, truck, motorcycle, and aviation accidents, as well as catastrophic injuries, hospital negligence, nursing home negligence, and medical and dental malpractice. He also handles international injury claims, international transactions, foreign estates, and probate matters. His work focuses on giving clients direct guidance through complicated legal and personal challenges.

Alfred earned a B.A. from Centre College and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky. He later received an LL.M. from Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Belgium, and also studied at the University of Denver. His advanced legal education in Belgium supports his work on international injuries and cross-border legal matters, where differences among legal systems can affect a client’s options, case strategy, and path toward recovery.

Alfred brings experience from public service, private practice, legislative work, and consumer protection. He previously served as an assistant attorney general in the Kentucky Consumer Protection Division and as legislative counsel to Congressman John B. Breckinridge in Washington, D.C. His background also includes state and national lobbying, private practice in Louisville, the Washington, D.C. area, and Atlanta, and service as a founding board member of the ABA CoLAP Commission.

Alfred John Welsh is admitted to practice in Kentucky, before the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky. His professional involvement includes the Louisville, Kentucky, and American Bar Associations, the Kentucky Justice Association, the Union Internationale des Avocats, and the Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers. He has served as president of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and on its Board of Governors, bringing broad professional experience to clients facing serious and complex legal concerns.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Adams, Hayward, & Welsh
• Member, Kentucky Bar Association
• Member, Louisville Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Union Internationale des Avocats
• Member, Kentucky Justice Association
• Member, Pan-European Org of Personal Injury Lawyers

Licensed State

• Kentucky

Education

• Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium
  LL.M
• University of Kentucky
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Centre College
  Bachelor of Arts

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