JASON VAUGHN
Managing Member
Attorney at Law
201 Thierman Ln.
Louisville, KY 40207
Phone: 502-899-5600
CURRICULUM VITAE
Memberships
Kentucky Bar Association
- Real Estate Section Former Chair, Chair-Elect and Secretary/Treasurer
- Member Services Committee-Former Member
- Featured Speaker
- Published Author
Indiana State Bar Association
Louisville Bar Association
- Real Estate Section Former Chair and Vice-Chair
- Featured Speaker
- Published Author
American Bar Association
Kentucky Land Title Association
- Featured Speaker
American Institute of Architects
- Affiliate
Kentucky Realtors
- Former General Legal Counsel
- Affiliate
- Featured Speaker
- Published Author
Kentucky Real Estate Educators Association
- Member
Greater Louisville Association of Realtors
- Blue-Ribbon Affiliate
- Featured Speaker
- Published Author
- Former Board Forms Committee Member (20 years)
- Mediator (20 years)
- Arbitrator (20 years)
Apron, Inc.
- Board Member
- Fundraising Chair
Admissions
Kentucky
Indiana
U.S. District Court and Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Kentucky
U.S. District Court and Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
Education
University of Louisville School of Law, J.D., 1996
- National Moot Court Team
- ATLA Trial Team
- Moot Court Board Member
- Pirtle-Washer Oral Argument Semi-Finalist
- Class Representative
- Honor Counsel (Alternate)
University of Kentucky, B.A. Secondary English Education, 1993
- Class Representative
Speaking Engagements
- “Contract Update” Greater Louisville Association of Realtors 2005
- “Fundamentals of Real Estate Closings in Kentucky” Lorman Institute 2005
- “Title Insurance Case Update” First American Title Insurance Co. 2005 through 2023
- “Real Estate Law for the New and/or Non-Practitioner” Louisville Bar Association 2004
- “The Countrywide Decision” Kentucky Bar Association 2004
- “Title Insurance Claims” Louisville Bar Association 2003
- “Real Estate Case Law Update” Louisville Bar Association 2006
- “How to Obtain Good Title in Kentucky Real Estate” NBI 2006
- “Fundamentals of Real Estate Law” NBI 2007
- “Resolving Real Estate Title Defects” NBI 2007
- “The Fundamentals and Ethics of Commercial Leasing” Louisville Bar Association 2010
- “Tools for the Real Estate Lawyer” Louisville Bar Association 2012
- “Residential Builder Disputes” Louisville Bar Association 2013
- “Eminent Domain in Kentucky” Kentucky Realtors 2014
- “Procuring Cause and Broker Relations” KREEF 2015
- “Residential Builders: Working with Them, Suing Them and Defending Them” Louisville Bar Association 2016
- “Scared Straight: How to Avoid the Disclosure Lawsuit” Greater Louisville Association of Realtors 2014 through 2022
- “Professional Standards for Training” Kentucky Realtor Institute 2014 through 2022
- “Professional Standards for Every Agent” Greater Louisville Association of Realtors 2019 through 2022; Northern Kentucky Association of Realtors 2016
- “Realtor Toolkit” Kentucky Realtor Institute 2019
- “New Home Construction” Greater Louisville Association of Realtors 2020 through 2022
- “Legal First Aid Kit” Greater Louisville Association of Realtors 2020 through 2022
- “The KYR Statewide Residential Contract” Kentucky Land Title Association 2021, 2022 and 2023
- “My First Real Estate Case” Kentucky Bar Association’s New Lawyer Program 2023
- “Latent Defect Law” University of Kentucky Real Property Seminar 2023
Publications
- “Big Business in the Classroom” South Carolina Journal of Law & Education 1997
- “Scrivener’s Certificate” Bench & Bar 2005
- “Private Transfer Fees” Bar Briefs 2011
- “Disclosure of the Accepted Offer” Kentucky Realtor Magazine 2013
- “Eminent Domain and Condemnation: An Overview” Kentucky Realtor Magazine 2014
- “Does Your Brokerage Have a Document Retention Policy?” Kentucky Realtor Magazine 2014
- “Is Your Drug Lab a Latent Defect?” Bar Briefs 2015
- “What is Non-Judicial Foreclosure?” Kentucky Realtor Magazine 2015
- “Closing Costs, RESPA and Kentucky License Law” Kentucky Realtor Magazine 2016
- “Selling a Condo? You Need Documentation” Kentucky Realtor Magazine 2016
- “Point/Counterpoint-Should Kentucky Require Title Insurance Agents to be Licensed?” Bar Briefs 2016
PRACTICE AREAS
ABOUT JASON
Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Jason Vaughn concentrates his practice on real estate and construction law. He is licensed to practice law in both Kentucky and Indiana. Already recognized as a leading real estate lawyer in Kentucky and Indiana, Jason opened the firm in 2001 in order to focus more on litigation. He has gone on to represent major real estate lenders, real estate brokers, developers and title insurance companies. However, he has also made sure to continue his representation of everyday individuals who may be confronted with litigation.
Jason also regularly serves as a Mediator and Arbitrator for the Greater Louisville Association of Realtors, where he has been a Blue Ribbon Affiliate and formerly served as a member of the Board’s Forms Committee for twenty years. He also served ten years as outside General Counsel for the Kentucky Realtors.
Service to his fellow members of the bar has always been one of Jason’s goals. He has served as Chair of both the Kentucky Bar Association and Louisville Bar Association’s Real Estate Sections. He has also served on the Member Services Committee and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Real Estate Section of the Kentucky Bar Association
Jason also serves as a Board Member and Fundraising Chair for APRON, Inc. The mission of APRON Inc. is to provide temporary, limited financial relief to professional food and beverage workers in the Louisville, KY metro area who work at locally-owned establishments and who are experiencing financial distress due to illness, accident, emergency, or catastrophic event through no fault of their own.
In addition, he has been published in the South Carolina Journal of Law & Education, the KBA Bench & Bar Magazine and the Louisville Bar Association’s Bar Briefs. Jason is often requested to be the featured speaker on real estate matters across the State of Kentucky, which averages more than twenty times a year. He has been a featured speaker for the Kentucky Bar Association, Louisville Bar Association, First American Title Insurance Co., the Lorman Institute, the National Business Institute, the Kentucky Realtors, the Greater Louisville Association of Realtors, the Lexington-Bluegrass Association of Realtors, the Northern Kentucky Association of Realtors, the Murray-Calloway County Board of Realtors, the Madisonville-Hopkins County Board of Realtors, the Kentucky Barkley Lakes Board of Realtors, the Paducah Board of Realtors, the Realtor Association of Southern Kentucky, the Hopkinsville-Christian & Todd County Association of Realtors, the Heart of Kentucky Association of Realtors and various real estate brokerages across the region.
Jason was born in Kentucky, and he lives in Oldham County with his wife, daughter and a household full of beloved pets.
