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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JULY 10-23, 2019

After a Clark Circuit judge was among those charged with a felony for his involvement in a fight in which he and another judge were shot and wounded, details about what happened in the early morning hours of May 1 began to emerge. The latest public-interest lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Child Services alleges the agency is failing to protect children and inflicting further harm. In what has become a near-annual ritual recently, a federal judge blocked Indiana's latest attempt to restrict access to abortion.

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