IndyBar: Practice Toolkit: Role Models: To Better Ensure Data Security, Check Your User Permissions
To have a truly effective data security program, law firms need to consider the access that internal staff enjoys.
From IndyBar
Articles
IndyBar: Bar Leader Class XIX Celebrates Service and Success
Class XIX of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Bar Leader Series recently completed the course and celebrated their success while sharing details of the community service program they designed and staffed.
IndyBar: Cultural Competence: The Challenges and Opportunities of Serving English as Second Language Clients
When your clients are of diverse backgrounds, are nonnative English speakers and are often immigrants, how do you best serve their needs?
IndyBar: On Demand with IndyBar Celebrating 10 Years of Service
IndyBar’s On-Demand CLE service is celebrating its 10th anniversary providing hundreds of online options for free or at a nominal cost.
IndyBar: Play a Part in Welcoming New Americans
About every six weeks, IndyBar is fortunate to provide a representative of the legal community to participate in a Naturalization Ceremony at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana to welcome newly naturalized American citizens.
IndyBar: Practice Toolkit: Is AI for U?: Lawyers Should Keep an Eye on Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT is all anyone can seem to talk about these days, from grandmas to grade schoolers. That is how you know when a technology has captured the popular zeitgeist.
IndyBar: Indianapolis Bar Foundation Grants $35,000 To You Yes You!
The Indianapolis Bar Foundation, funded by donations from the local legal community, recently gifted a Community Empowerment Grant of $35,000 to You Yes You!, a Indianapolis-based organization.
IndyBar: Artificial Intelligence: Colleague Or Competitor?
Recent artificial intelligence and, more specifically, ChatGPT articles seem to be indicating a need for law firms to prepare for another upcoming major pivot in the technology we use to draft legal documents and provide services.
IndyBar: Looking to Connect with Diverse Future Lawyers? IndyBar to Host Diversity Events July 24-25
Dozens of diverse law students from across the country will soon travel to Indianapolis to meet leaders from Indianapolis-area law firms, agencies, courts and businesses at the 16th annual Indianapolis Bar Association Diversity Job Fair.
IndyBar: Blainbridge Receives Paralegal of the Year Award
The Indianapolis Bar Association recently honored Sara C. Blainbridge of the Indiana Office of Judicial Administration with IndyBar’s 2023 Paralegal of the Year Award.
IndyBar: Class XX of IndyBar’s Bar Leader Series Announced
Class XX of the Indianapolis Bar Association Bar Leader Series has been selected. Representing an array of practice settings and areas, as well as life experiences, Class XX is poised to begin their yearlong journey at IndyBar’s Bench Bar Conference.
IndyBar: IndyBar Seeking 2024 Leaders
The nomination period has begun for the 2024 boards of directors for the Indianapolis Bar Association AND the Indianapolis Bar Foundation.
IndyBar: Practice Toolkit: Same Old, Same Old: How to Get Referrals from Attorneys in Your Practice Area
Lawyers tend to build a high percentage of their revenue out of referral marketing done with other lawyers. There’s nothing wrong with that. But there may be gaps in what you’re doing.
IndyBar: IndyBar Foundation Golf Outing to Support Growth in Diversity and Inclusion
For the first time, the Indianapolis Bar Foundation’s Lawyers Links Classic golf outing presented by Wilson Kehoe & Winingham LLC is being held at one of Indy’s finest golf courses, The Brickyard Crossing, on July 20.
IndyBar: The Implications of the New Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment
The derailment of a Norfolk Southern train has remained in the national spotlight since the incident occurred on Feb. 3.
IndyBar: New Law Updates the Indiana Uniform Commercial Code
The Indiana General Assembly has passed, and Gov. Holcomb signed into law, Senate Enrolled Act 468, which amends the Uniform Commercial Code to keep pace with legal and technological developments. The new law takes effect July 1.
IndyBar: What’s Indiana’s Attorney Surrogate Rule?
Indiana has an Attorney Surrogate Rule, which became effective in 2008. You can find the rule in the Indiana Rules for Admission to the Bar and Discipline of Attorneys, specifically under Rule 23 in Part IV, Section 27.
IndyBar: Practice Toolkit: Dual Threat: Why You Need a Backup Attorney
Every year on your malpractice insurance application, you’re asked to identify a “backup attorney.” Not only should you be more thoughtful about making the selection, you should build your backup attorney relationship with succession planning in mind.
IndyBar: President’s Message: Race over to Bench Bar Conference
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s May, so start your engines and race over to register for IndyBar’s annual Bench Bar Conference.