About Carol L.
Carol L — Risk is a criminal defense attorney based in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. She has been licensed to practice law in Kentucky since 2006 and in Ohio since 2006. She is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. She earned her Juris Doctorate from the Salmon P.
Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in 2006 and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Indiana University-Southeast, obtained in 1998. She is a member of the Northern Kentucky Bar Association and the Kentucky State Bar. At The Risk Firm, PLLC, located at 2009 Dixie Hwy, Fort Mitchell, KY 41011, she handles a variety of cases, including DUI, traffic violations, misdemeanors, felonies, probation violations, expungements, divorce, and child custody. She offers free initial consultations and accepts all major credit cards. She is also a special subject instructor for the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy, teaching various units to cadets in the Ohio police academy.
She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati since 2013, teaching law classes in the Business, Criminal Justice, and Paralegal Departments. She has been recognized as a Top 40 Criminal Defense Attorney Under 40 in Kentucky by The American Society of Legal Advocates in 2014 and as a Nationally Ranked Top 10 Under 40 Family Law Attorney by The National Academy of Family Law Attorneys in 2014. Before founding The Risk Firm, PLLC, she worked as an associate attorney at Busald Funk Zevely, P.S.C., handling family law and criminal defense cases. She also served as a prosecuting attorney at the Kenton County Attorney’s Office, handling misdemeanor and felony prosecutions, as well as paternity and child support establishment and enforcement. Additionally, she worked as a criminal defense attorney representing indigent defendants charged with felony, misdemeanor, traffic offenses, and juvenile offenses at the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy.
She has co-authored an article titled "The Family Medical Leave Act: Standards of Proof and the Impact of Desert Palace on Retaliation Claims," published in the North Carolina Central Law Journal in 2005. She is fluent in English and offers free consultations to potential clients.
