Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett

What Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett does

Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett PLC (PPOA) is a privately held civil litigation defense law firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, with a secondary office in Key West, Florida. The firm is one of the largest in Kentucky devoted solely to trial practice and focuses on defending physicians, hospitals, insurers, employers, municipalities, and businesses in complex civil matters — with medical malpractice defense and insurance coverage/bad faith litigation as its anchor practices.

The firm operates across a broad practice portfolio that includes medical negligence, insurance coverage and bad faith, automobile and trucking litigation, construction law, employment and wrongful discharge, fire loss investigation, municipal litigation, premises liability, products liability and medical device litigation, professional liability, toxic torts, appellate practice, and workers' compensation. Approximately 23 attorneys are listed on the firm's website, supported by 51-100 total staff across the two offices. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; fees are structured as hourly rates, contingency arrangements, or flat fees depending on practice area and matter complexity, and client relationships are sourced primarily through direct engagement, carrier panels, and referrals within the Kentucky/Indiana/Florida region.

The firm is structured as a professional limited company (PLC), has no parent company, and has not raised institutional funding. It has executed two waves of internal partner promotions (2018 and 2020) to support succession planning around the founding Phillips, Parker, Orberson, and Arnett partners, and it maintains membership in the Council on Litigation Management. Its brand is sustained by extensive third-party recognition, including multiple Best Lawyers 'Lawyer of the Year' selections, Super Lawyers designations, Louisville Magazine Top Lawyers listings, and the Kentucky Trial Court Review Hall of Fame.

Name

Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett

Legal name

Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett PLC

Website

https://ppoalaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett PLC is a privately held Kentucky civil litigation defense firm founded in 1999, representing physicians, hospitals, insurers, employers, and municipalities in medical malpractice, insurance coverage, and complex civil defense matters across Kentucky, Indiana, and Florida.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Litigation Defense Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Personal Injury & Insurance Defense (BPAHAAAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Labor Relations & Employment Practice Advisory (BPAHAGAK), Management Liability (D&O/EPL/Fiduciary) (FSAJAGAD)

Keywords

• Civil litigation defense
• Medical malpractice defense
• Insurance coverage litigation
• Trial practice law
• Professional liability defense

Headquarters

HQ city

Louisville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett PLC is a civil litigation defense law firm representing physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, employers, and businesses in trial and appellate matters. The firm provides specialized legal defense across thirteen practice areas, including medical negligence, insurance coverage and bad faith, premises liability, professional liability, products liability, employment, construction, municipal, fire loss, and workers' compensation litigation across Kentucky, Indiana, and Florida.

Product overview

Phillips Parker Orberson & Arnett PLC is a civil litigation law firm offering comprehensive legal defense services. The firm operates as a single unified legal practice providing multiple specialized practice areas including medical negligence defense, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, automobile and trucking litigation, construction law, employment litigation, premises liability, products liability, professional liability, toxic tort litigation, appellate practice, municipal litigation, fire loss investigation, and workers' compensation. The firm has two office locations in Louisville, Kentucky and Key West, Florida, and serves clients throughout Kentucky and Indiana.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Medical Negligence Defense

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Ogletree Deakins: National labor and employment law firm representing employers in litigation. Competes with PPOA specifically in the employment & wrongful discharge defense practice area.
• Jackson Lewis: National employment law firm with a substantial employment litigation and workplace defense practice. Comparable peer for PPOA's employment & wrongful discharge litigation practice area, though narrower in scope.

Direct peers

• Stites & Harbison: Louisville-headquartered full-service regional firm with a large civil litigation defense practice, including medical malpractice, insurance coverage, and employment defense. Most direct geographic and practice-area peer to PPOA in the Kentucky legal market.
• Frost Brown Todd: Large Cincinnati-based regional firm with significant Louisville presence and a comparable civil litigation defense, insurance coverage, and professional liability practice. Direct competition for PPOA's core insurance and medical malpractice defense clients.
• Dinsmore & Shohl: Cincinnati-based regional firm with strong Louisville office and a sizable civil litigation, insurance defense, and tort practice. Overlaps with PPOA in Kentucky and southern Indiana insurance and healthcare defense work.
• Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs: Louisville-headquartered regional firm with a substantial litigation defense practice spanning medical malpractice, insurance, and employment matters. Direct regional peer competing for the same Kentucky-based insurance panel and healthcare system work.
• Boehl Stopher & Graves: Louisville-based regional defense firm with a long-standing insurance defense, civil litigation, and transportation practice. Direct peer competing for similar regional carrier and self-insured clients.

Broad incumbents

• Goldberg Segalla: National litigation firm with a sizeable insurance and medical malpractice defense practice expanding into the Midwest. Represents the larger national firms encroaching on PPOA's regional panel relationships.
• Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith: National full-service litigation firm with one of the largest insurance defense practices in the U.S., including medical malpractice, bad faith, and premises liability. Represents the large national competitor PPOA faces as carriers consolidate panels.

Regional players

• Reminger Co. Cleveland-based defense firm with Kentucky and Indiana coverage of insurance defense, medical malpractice, and professional liability matters. Comparable mid-sized regional defense peer with overlapping carrier panel work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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