Wetterer & Clare

Mr. Wetterer was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, William S. Wetterer Jr., practiced law for over fifty years until his death in 1999. Bill attended St. Xavier High School graduating in 1976. He attended college at the University of Notre Dame graduating with a degree in economics in 1980, with honors. Bill attended the University of Kentucky College of Law. He was Articles Editor of the Kentucky Law Journal. While in law school he clerked for the law firms of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald in Louisville, Kentucky and Frost and Jacobs (now Frost Brown Todd) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Bill started his legal career as an Associate at Stites & Harbison in the Louisville, Kentucky office practicing in the Litigation Section of the firm. In 1986, Bill was one of the founding partners in the law firm of Mulloy, Walz, Wetterer, Fore & Schwartz and relocated his office to the First Trust Centre in downtown Louisville. His practice included litigation, real estate, small business matters and the general practice of law. In 1989, Bill joined another partner in the firm, Greg Clare, to establish the law firm of Wetterer & Clare. He continues to practice as a partner in that firm today working in the areas of real estate law, litigation, insurance defense, estate planning, bankruptcy, mediation, small business matters and the general practice of law. Bill has extensive experience as a mediator having overseen in excess of a hundred mediations. Bill is the former Chairman of the Louisville Bar Association Real Estate Section and serves as a mediator for the Greater Louisville Association of Realtors. Representative clients include First American Title Insurance Company, Old National Bank, Regions Bank, U.S. Bank, Bank of America, Kentucky TELCO Federal Credit Union, Harshaw Trane Company, Associated Insurance Services, Inc., Riverside Parking, Inc. as well as numerous national and local banks, corporations and individuals. Bill is an owner of Kentucky Title Services, Inc. a title company operating in Kentucky and Indiana with offices in Louisville and Radcliff, Kentucky. Bill has extensive business interests in Louisville and is an owner of Clare & Wetterer Properties, LLC as well as D.A. Properties, LLC both companies holding multifamily residential rental properties. He is also a shareholder/owner of Exchange Corporation, a Kentucky company specializing in acting as a qualified intermediary under the U.S. Tax Code. Bill is married to attorney Carolyn Wetterer and has two daughters.