Congratulations to KDC member, Aida Almasalkhi of Goldberg, Simpson, Prospect, for being the attorney selected for the "New Member Spotlight" for DRI's October 26, 2016 issue of The Voice.
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Aida Almasalkhi is an associate with Goldberg Simpson LLC in Louisville, Kentucky. Her practice primarily includes tort defense, insurance coverage and bad faith, and general civil litigation. Ms. Almasalkhi is from Louisville, but she received her B.A. from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. She then earned her J.D. and graduated with a Certificate of Distinction in Litigation Skills from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. While in law school, Ms. Almasalkhi served as a summer intern for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana for the Honorable Ivan Lemelle, the Jefferson County Attorney’s Office, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Kentucky.
She was also selected to serve as a member of the University of Louisville Law Review, a pupil member of the Brandeis Inn of Court, and a Brandeis diversity ambassador. Ms. Almasalkhi was on the winning team of the Kentucky Trial Tournament in 2014, received the Edward M. Post Award for excellence in litigation skills, and was awarded the Kentucky Judges Association Scholarship in recognition of her demonstrated skill in trial advocacy. She was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in September 2016.
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