Adam Mandel Firm: Mandel Rauch & Lammers Practice area: Insurance defense Years of practice: Second-year associate What do you like best about your job? I enjoy traveling and seeing the different towns and courthouses throughout the state. What has been the best moment so far in your legal career? Taking my first few depositions on […]
(12 hrs. CLE total) Register online at www.dtci.org THURSDAY, NOV. 18 8 a.m. Board of directors’ and annual meeting of the membership 9 a.m. Registration Section breakouts 10-11:30 a.m. Track 1: Health law (90 min.) Demystifying EMR Audit Trails: Interpreting the Metadata and Its Potential Impact on Litigation Review of the fundamental concepts of database […]
“My name is Rick and I am a pack rat.” Those are the words I will use at my first Pack Rats Anonymous meeting, which I will be attending after having recently prepared for our law firm office move.
In Shiel Sexton Co., Inc. v. Towe, 154 N.E.3d 827 (Ind. Ct. App. 2020), the Indiana Court of Appeals addressed the impact of the parties’ contractual language on their legal responsibility for jobsite injuries.
Frequently for my past columns for DTCI, ideas would rise to the surface of my consciousness during my walks through my neighborhood and along the country roads of Porter County. Not so much this year. But one or two thoughts did cross my mind that I think are worth sharing.
Indiana courts recognize that social media posts can form the basis of defamation claims.
Indiana courts approach landowner liability cases by taking a broad approach to the type of plaintiff injured and the type of harm suffered. This avoids making landowners act as insurers to their patrons when the acts of third parties are involved. Yet the caselaw has not always been so clear.
If you know of a deserving candidate, please make your nomination(s) by the end of the day on Sept. 17
Join me Oct. 13-16 for the Defense Research Institute Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Boston Hotel for four days of networking, building business, meeting new friends, reconnecting with old friends and benefiting from educational programs.
Because he saves caselaw blasts, this author consumes lots of articles that survey noteworthy caselaw. The readers should sit back and learn about three opinions that have been found noteworthy.
While no one has been immune from the changes to our usual habits due to COVID, it struck me that younger attorneys, in particular first-year associates, did not really have the ability to learn and experience much of the practice of law that they were likely expecting.
Meet DTCI young lawyers Eddie Abel, Lauren Binger and MacKenzie Johnson.
The 18th volume of DTCI’s flagship publication, the Indiana Civil Litigation Review, will begin production soon. Tell us what you want to see included!
Here’s why young lawyers should join the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana.
Courts are back in business, but it’s not business as usual. Defense lawyer Scott Cockrum writes for the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana about his views on attorneys’ “new normal.”
The Defense Trial Counsel’s Annual Meeting will be held Nov. 18-19 at French Lick Resort. One of the highlights of the meeting is the presentation of the “Defense Lawyer of the Year,” the “Diplomat of the Indiana Defense Trial Counsel” and the “Outstanding Young Lawyer” awards. The DTCI Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for this year’s awards.
Two recent cases, a Court of Appeals decision and an unappealed decision by the full Worker’s Compensation Board, illustrate the board’s method of applying statutes governing filing limitations.
The last year has taught most of us that Zoom calls and videoconferencing are here to stay and that there are both positive and negative aspects to conducting business this way. James Hehner offers some suggestions that he has found helpful in preventing viewer fatigue and increasing the usefulness of videoconferencing.
Attorneys are duty-bound to be technologically competent. How, then, do we overcome the fear of technology that is natural to many of us?
Meet Michael Mullen of Schultz & Pogue.