In the early 1990s, Erica L. Horn was beginning her law
career in the general litigation section of the Lexington,
Kentucky, office of Stites&Harbison PLLC when a partner
in the firm’s Frankfort office asked for help.
‘‘There was an attorney in our Frankfort office named
Bruce Clark who had more work than he could do, and he
asked if there [was] an associate that could come to Frankfort
and help him, and I volunteered,’’ Horn, now counsel
to the firm at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC in Lexington, told
Tax Analysts.
Horn didn’t know what she was getting into, but the
move transformed her life in three major ways: It launched
her decades-long career as a state tax lawyer; it introduced
her to her mentor; and it thrust her into a major role in some
of the most significant Kentucky state tax litigation of the
last quarter-century.