JAN. 22-FEB. 4, 2020

In her State of the Judiciary address, Chief Justice Loretta Rush stressed problem-solving courts, criminal justice reform and other advances achieved by creating collaborative communities. Death penalty advocates and opponents do agree on one thing: the US Supreme Court ultimately will decide whether federal executions resume in Terre Haute. And the numerous law firm mergers and combinations announced in recent months in the Indianapolis market is being driven by client demand for varied legal services, firm leaders say.

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JAN. 8-21, 2020

What a long, appealing trip it's been: The Indiana Court of Appeals has finally made it to all 92 Hoosier counties to host oral arguments in its Appeals on Wheels program. The American Bar Association has some advice for transitioning lawyers, which is wise counsel for those moving between firms. And just weeks into the Marion County Prosectuor's Office's good-faith effort program, scores of Indianapolis residents have had their driving privileges restored while getting on the right road to catching up their child support obligations.  

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DEC. 11-24, 2019

A national task force has released recommendations about what courts should do as they fight the opioid crisis. Meanwhile, Indianapolis-area attorneys were trained to administer a life-saving overdose reversal drug. And as the Indiana General Assembly prepares for the 2020 session, juvenile justice advocates are preparing to fight legislation they say could harm young offenders.

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NOV. 27-DEC. 10, 2019

Three Indianapolis attorneys recently left their former law firm to establish their own practice, doing so with an entrepreneurial spirit and thinking like a startup. A groundbreaking settlement in a rent-to-own housing lawsuit came at a cost for the nonprofit that pursued the litigation as well as the defendants who aggressively countersued. A recent civic health survey found Hoosiers are engaged but not voting as much as those in other states, and a veteran  Indianapolis attorney is proposing one possible solution.

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OCT. 16-29, 2019

The largest law firm in the world has entered the Indianapolis market, and IL details how the deal came about. Disciplinary charges against three judges involved in an Indianapolis shooting detail a night of conference-eve bar-hopping that led to a violent confrontation. In the 1970s, women law students were few. A tight-knit group of IU McKinney trailblazers has reunited annually, this year marking their 40th reunion. And a Taft lawyer who took on a toxic polluter and won is getting the star treatment in the upcoming major motion picture “Dark Waters”.

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SEPT. 18-OCT. 1, 2019

The Taft Stettinius & Hollister merger with a big Minneapolis firm is the latest and largest in a flurry of deals involving Hoosier law firms. A Clark Circuit judge will serve no jail time and receive no probation for his misdemeanor plea in a confrontation in which he and a colleague were shot, but the Commission on Judicial Qualifications continues to investigate the shooting. And a harassment guilty plea in a case involving a Facebook post was affirmed by the Court of Appeals, but a dissenting judge wrote that the harassment statute itself should be thrown out.

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