IBA: Unique ideas at heart of IBA Awards
Tireless effort, unique ideas, and a commitment to service are shared qualities within those selected to receive special honors at the Indianapolis Bar Association’s annual Recognition Luncheon.
Tireless effort, unique ideas, and a commitment to service are shared qualities within those selected to receive special honors at the Indianapolis Bar Association’s annual Recognition Luncheon.
Lawyers’ use of smart phones and social networking technologies grew by double-digit percentages last year, indicating lawyers’ increasing “24/7” connectivity to their offices and clients, according to the recently released 2010 American Bar Association Legal Technology Survey Report, an annual survey of technology use within the legal profession.
Increased business confidence and continued legal hiring are expected in the fourth quarter of 2010.
On November 10 the Indianapolis Bar Association will honor a group of lawyers who have served the profession for such a laudable length of time and done so with distinction.
The Indianapolis Bar Association has delivered the results of a recent survey regarding the performance of all current Magistrates and Commissioners now serving those courts to the Marion Circuit and Superior Courts.
Julia Blackwell Gelinas, Partner of Frost Brown Todd LLC, and the late Deborah Hepler will be honored with the Antoinette Dakin Leach Award on October 20 from the Women and the Law Division of the Indianapolis Bar Association.
For the third year in a row, the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Diversity Job Fair has successfully created employment opportunities in Indianapolis for a diverse set of students from around the country.
The Indianapolis Bar Foundation had inducted a new class of fellows, Senior Fellows. Senior Fellows of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation are Distinguished Fellows who have been nominated based upon their continued and outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession.
The Indianapolis Bar Association’s Nominating Committee has announced the selection of Kerry Hyatt Blomquist, General Counsel for the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence as the 2013 President of the Association. Blomquist will be the organization’s 135th President.
The Indiana Constitution often affords criminal defendants greater protections than the U.S Constitution.
Depression will affect more than 19 million Americans this year, and according to a Johns Hopkins University study lawyers have the highest rate of depression among the 28 occupations they reviewed.
So far in 2010, the IBF awarded over $136,000 in grant support for IBA initiatives and to agencies with projects consistent with the IBF mission of advancing the administration of justice and understanding of law through philanthropy, education and service.
When was the last time you thought about how you practice law?
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana recently announced the selection of Mark J. Dinsmore as the new United States Magistrate Judge.