N. Jeffrey Blankenship is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Kentucky and Ohio; also, he is admitted before the United States Supreme Court.
Jeff has handled all areas of personal injury and commercial litigation, including car wrecks, premises liability (slip and fall), employment law, Kentucky Workers’ compensation, family law, probate law, and social security disability cases.
Jeff’s practice also encompasses representation of a significant number of small local businesses, such as restaurants, churches, and other nonprofit organizations, retailers, and service providers, whom he advises on both employment and contractual aspects of their businesses, having negotiated numerous mergers and acquisitions, real estate purchases, noncompete, and nondisclosure agreements.
Jeff has published or co-published numerous papers on various aspects of legal issues, such as hedonic (loss of enjoyment) damages, the use of child witnesses, a law review article on juvenile-status offenders, and premises liability.
Jeff has served terms on the Northern Kentucky Bar Association Board of Directors, the nonprofit organizations of Potter's Ranch and Master Provisions, the Union Fire Protection District Board of Trustees, and was recently elected by his peers to Super Lawyers/Kentucky 2020.
Jeff holds degrees from NKU Chase College of Law (Juris Doctor, top 10 of graduating class), and Northern Kentucky University (BA, cum laude), and has also worked toward a master’s degree in Church Music at Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Jeff holds copyrights on numerous, published Christian songs and has also recorded and performed music throughout northern Kentucky, as well as Ohio and Indiana.
Over the course of 40 years in personal injury law, Jeff has successfully tried many cases, achieving verdicts well over $1,000,000. In addition to his trial successes, he has secured many settlements that also exceed $1,000,000, including the following:
- $2 million for a man who died after being scalded in a hotel shower;
- $1.2 million for a man whose foot was crushed by a taxi cab;
- $1.3 million for a man who was struck on his motorcycle by a drunk driver and left for dead;
- $1.7 million for a young man struck on his bicycle by a panel truck driver who ran a stop sign, causing a traumatic brain injury;
- $1.5 million for two boys who each suffered a traumatic brain injury after the car in which they were rear seat passengers was crushed from a rear end collision;
- $2 million for the parents of a young man whose life was taken when the roll back wrecker in which he was a passenger struck a tractor trailer driving at night without any lights; and
- $1 million for an Owen county woman whose husband was killed in a crash with a commercial vehicle.
