Available 24/7 • More Than 31 Years Experience • Serving Louisville and Lexington
call white502-253-9110

Ronald M. Wilt

Managing Partner

Ronald M. Wilt is the managing partner of Wilt Injury Lawyers. His practice, first as a defense attorney and then as a plaintiff attorney, has been exclusively focused on medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, and medical device litigation for 32 years. He has the unique honor of being designated a Super Lawyer: Medical Malpractice, as a defense attorney and then as a plaintiff attorney.

Mr. Wilt has handled hundreds of medical malpractice cases from inception to closing; as lead counsel, he has won dozens of jury verdicts in catastrophic cases and defended those verdicts on appeal; he has successfully handled cases involving a multitude of medical issues such as birth injuries resulting in brain damage and brachial plexus palsies, wrongful death, medical and radiological misdiagnosis, and surgical misadventures, including epidural injections, resulting in death, brain damage and paralysis. He is licensed to practice in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. He earned his B.A. degree from Earlham College and his J.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati.

Ronald M. Wilt

Ronald Wilt is a distinguished attorney with over 13 years of recognition by Super Lawyers, both as a defense attorney in 2004 and 2005 and for 11 consecutive years as a plaintiff attorney. His unique distinction extends across two states, Ohio (OH) and Kentucky (KY).

Super Lawyers
31+ Years of Experience

A Long Relationship With Law and Medicine

Ronald M. Wilt did not always plan to be a lawyer; in fact, he received a Doctoral Fellowship to Vanderbilt University to study Physiological Psychology. He left Vanderbilt to take his law school admission test when he realized that his passion for teaching complex scientific ideas and his interest in the law could be combined by focusing on medical malpractice. After completing law school in 1992, he joined the largest medical malpractice defense firm in the country, at that time, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

After one year of practicing in Cleveland, he was asked to relocate to the firm’s Louisville office where he helped it to grow from 3 attorneys to 8 in few short years. He was then recruited to co-manage the medical malpractice group at the prestigious Ohio law firm of Buckingham, Doolittle and Burroughs, LLC, where he ultimately became the managing partner of their Cleveland office. After 3-4 years of managing that office, Ron decided that he could do more for society by representing injured parties and joined, as a partner, Dolt, Thompson, Shepherd, Kinney, and Wilt in Louisville, Kentucky where he practiced from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, he struck out on his own and formed Wilt Injury Lawyers. Since his second year in law school in 1991, Ronald M. Wilt has studied, researched, learned, and loved the legal fields surrounding how and why doctors practice medicine. That love ultimately gave rise to Wilt Injury Lawyers.

Redefining Purpose

Ronald M. Wilt understands, from his extensive experience as a defense attorney, the unlimited resources the multi-billion-dollar insurance companies and health care institutions bring to bear when they are challenged in the medical malpractice arena. He understands that, as a medical malpractice plaintiffs’ attorney, he cannot afford to be anything less than the best in order to prevail. He realizes that he is often his clients’ only hope for a chance to better their lives after suffering a catastrophic injury.

It’s a staggering responsibility, but success in these cases means a family still has a chance for a good life even though they have suffered a tremendous loss. It means that they will have the resources to carry on in spite of the injuries caused by the negligence of a healthcare provider. Being able to change individuals’, and/or family’s, lives for the better, makes it all worthwhile.

Choosing Your Lawyer

Attorney Ronald M. Wilt brings extensive experience and a distinct perspective to each client’s case. Having worked directly with the insurance companies that make decisions in medical malpractice claims for over fifteen years, he knows how to maximize the value of a settlement and, if necessary, win in court.

Because Ronald has earned success while representing both plaintiffs and defendants, many defendants are more likely to seek a reasonable settlement with his clients rather than risk an unfavorable verdict at trial.

Additional injury services for clients throughout Kentucky

Our personal injury lawyers are committed to providing compassionate counsel to our clients and fight aggressively on their behalf in courtrooms and during negotiations. Contact us in Louisville or Lexington today if you were injured by:

Areas of Practice

Bar Admissions

  • Kentucky, 1994
  • Ohio, 1992
  • West Virginia, 2007
  • Litigation Percentage
    • 100 Percent of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Litigation Percentage

  • 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Education

  • University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, Ohio, J.D. – 1992
    • Received Peck Award for Trial Practice student of the year
    • Honors: Scholastic Distinctions, Moot Court Board
    • Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
    • Awarded four-year Doctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology
  • Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, B.A. – 1988
    • Honors: Graduated with Honors
    • Honors: 4 Year Varsity Letterman
    • Major: Psychology

Professional Associations & Memberships

  • Kentucky Bar Association, Member, 2013 – Present
  • Louisville Bar Association, Member, 2007 – Present
  • Ohio State Bar Association, Member, 1992 – Present
  • West Virginia Bar Association, Member, 2007 – Present
  • Kentucky Bar Association, Member, 1994 – Present
  • Achievement Centers for Children, Member, Board of Directors, 2006 – 2007

Past Employment Positions

  • CPW Law, Partner, 2014 – 2018
  • CMPW Law, Partner, 2013 – 2014
  • Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP – Cleveland OH, Managing Partner, 2003 – 2007
  • Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP – Cleveland OH, Shareholder, 2002 – 2007
  • Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP – Cleveland OH, Of Counsel, 2000 – 2002
  • Arnold & Associates – Cincinnati, OH, Associate, 1998 – 2000
  • Jacobson, Maynard & Tuschman – Louisville, KY, Associate, 1993 – 1997

Honors & Awards

  • U.S. News – Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms, 2024
  • Super Lawyers, 2015 – 2024 (as Plaintiffs’ Attorney)
  • Super Lawyers, 2004 – 2005 (as Defense Attorney)
  • The Best Lawyers in America®, 2007-2024
  • The National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Top 10 Attorney, 2023
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® rated lawyer, 2003 – 2024
  • Judicial Edition of AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell
  • The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2014 – 2023
  • Attorney of the Month, Kentucky, Attorney at Law Magazine, 2014
  • Louisville Magazine’s Top Louisville Lawyers, 2008-2012, 2014, 2015
  • The Courier Journal’s Kentucky’s Top Rated Lawyers in 2012
  • Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Top Trial Lawyers in America
  • Ohio Super Lawyer, Cincinnati Magazine
  • Leading lawyer in Northeast Ohio, Inside Business Magazine
  • Top Lawyers in Kentucky Winner, 2015 – Present
  • Elite Lawyers of America – Gold Member

Published Works

“Computer-Aided Detection as Evidence in the Courtroom: Potential Implications of an Appellate Court’s Ruling”, (Co-Author), American Journal of Roentgenology

Blog Posts Written By Ronald M. Wilt

  • Your Concussion May Go Undiagnosed

    Concussions are far more prevalent than most people realize. Every year, millions of Americans sustain head injuries, and a significant portion of those will be diagnosed with a concussion. Despite being so common, concussions can be deceptively complicated. Unlike a cast for a broken bone or stitches for a laceration,...

    Read More
  • What Is Pediatric Malpractice?

    Our medical malpractice lawyers have seen first-hand the tragic consequences of negligence in healthcare. But there’s a particular heartbreak that comes with cases involving children. These are our most vulnerable patients, relying on adults to safeguard their health and well-being. When that trust is betrayed, the effects can be lifelong....

    Read More