Laura Landenwich

Laura Landenwich practices law in Kentucky and Indiana and is a founding member of the Louisville firm Adams Landenwich Walton, PLLC. Laura received her Juris Doctor from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, and her undergraduate degree in music and philosophy from Indiana University. She focuses her law practice on employment discrimination and civil rights litigation, representing clients who have been the victims of bigotry, ignorance, and the abuse of power. Laura argued the Kentucky marriage equality cases at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in August 2014, which later led to the landmark Supreme Court opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. Among her recent notable cases, Laura successfully represented the family of an Indiana man arrested on a misdemeanor charge who died in a county jail after his complaints of chest pain were repeatedly ignored. Sweet v. Noel (2020). She represented a state employee who was fired after participating in teachers’ protests at the Kentucky Capitol in Cooke v. Beavin (2019). She defended Planned Parenthood from penalties imposed by a Kentucky governor in an effort to restrict access to reproductive healthcare in Cabinet v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (2019). Along with the ACLU of Kentucky, she represented Kentucky couples who were denied marriage licenses by a county clerk following the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision in Miller v. Davis (2017).