Corbin attorney Tim Crawford has been recognized for “Excellence in Education Law” by Lawyers of Distinction.
“I thoroughly enjoy helping our public school systems in providing high quality educational services to our children and I was totally surprised I was nominated by someone and it is a shining achievement to be nationally recognized in this legal field,” Crawford said.
Crawford assists more than a dozen school boards and represents two public school education cooperatives.
The Kentucky Educational Development Cooperative in Lexington has almost 80 school boards as members. The Southeast South-Central Educational Cooperative in London, which has more than 20 school districts as members.
Crawford’s current districts include: Whitley County, Knox County, Barbourville Independent, Pineville Independent, Middlesboro Independent, Knott County, Jenkins Independent, Lewis County, Nelson County, Bourbon County and Raceland Independent.
He assists several others on an “as needed” basis.
Lawyers of Distinction, which was first incorporated in 2014, is a legal fraternity of lawyers from all 50 states as well as abroad.
In order to be selected, attorneys first have to be nominated, however, Crawford said that he doesn’t know who nominated him. Nominees are then evaluated based on 12 separate criteria.
