Iaccarino’s practice focuses on administrative and regulatory law, representing individuals and entities appearing before regulatory agencies and working with clients to affect Kentucky regulatory legislation, as well as on education and employment law.
For nearly a decade, Iaccarino served the public as counsel and director for executive and regulatory agencies in Kentucky. Most recently as Chief of Staff and as General Counsel to the Kentucky Attorney General, he provided comprehensive strategic, policy, political, and legal advice and counsel to the Attorney General and the office’s divisions on issues involving the office’s litigation portfolio, government law, ethics, and compliance. As Executive Director of the Attorney General’s Office of Civil & Environmental Law, he oversaw trial litigation throughout the Commonwealth as well as administrative appeals under the Open Meetings and Open Records Acts.
Before joining the Office of the Attorney General, Iaccarino served as Governor-appointed General Counsel of the Kentucky Public Protection Cabinet, where he was chief counsel to the Cabinet and its 12 agencies charged with regulating horse racing, financial institutions, insurance, alcoholic beverages, construction, professional licensing, and charitable gaming. While at the Cabinet, he successfully defended the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission’s declaration of the winner of the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby.
He earned his J.D. from Catholic University of America and his B.A. from The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs.
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