The legal profession celebrates CLE at 30, while calling for change. An Indianapolis law firm's career coaching program is giving first-year associates instant feedback. The Indiana Department of Revenue has refined its processes so that processes of review are no longer so taxing.
Indiana Repertory Theatre hopes to get people talking with its production of "The Originalist," inspired by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. A new diversity effort at some law firms and legal organizations seeks leadership applicant pools containing at least 30 percent women and minorities. Indiana lawyers are involved in the pleadings in a Supreme Court suit over political gerrymandering in Wisconsin.
After the death of Senior Judge Larry McKinney, the Southern District of Indiana is hoping for relief from one of the nation's heaviest caseloads. Lawmakers are considering new restrictions on civil forfeiture. A Spencer lawyer's letter home from the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg is the focus of an Indiana Historical Society exhibit.
Lawyers and the judge in the Mike Tyson rape case recall a historic trial 25 years later. Indiana is taking the first step in addressing a backlog of untested rape kits: counting the shelved cases. Law firms are taking action to develop plans to deal with disasters.
In order to create a common culture, law firms are emphasizing collaboration to keep attorneys and attract clients and new talent. An Indianapolis lawyer has been charged for stealing more than $85,000 from two special-needs trusts. Investigators and attorneys believe that may just be the tip of the iceberg. Despite a boost from the Trump administration, coal faces rocky prospects.
As the Class of 2020 begins its legal studies and the Class of 2018 prepares for the bar exam and life as a lawyer, many will probably be thinking about their financial security, debt and loan obligations. More than 85 percent of law students borrow, running up a tab that can flow to astronomical amounts.
The Indiana State Bar Association's choice for executive director brings experience leading a national member-based nonprofit in a field that has been disrupted by technology and consolidation.
At 50, the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act just isn't its old self. Age discrimination cases are becoming harder to prove.
An Allen County Bar Association project is collecting oral histories from members of the legal community. An Indianapolis firm's one-principal business model is unique and allows its attorneys a better work-life balance. Plaintiffs plan to appeal their loss in a bid to restrict the use of driver's license info from crash reports.
Insurance defense attorney Rob Doyle will be spending less time in the office and more time on the football field now that he's head coach of the team at Bishop Chatard High School. The Department of Justice directive on civil forfeiture announced July 19 comes at a time when Indiana is considering revamping its civil forfeiture law. Family law attorneys are seeing more contentious divorce cases and are trying to be the calm in the dissolution storm.
Black lawyers who rose through the ranks of larger law firms say they see vast changes in how life in a big firm is for newer attorneys as compared to when they were starting their careers. Law students and inmates were learning from each other through IU McKinney's Inside-Out course, until the Indianapolis re-entry facility where the classes were held was abruptly shut down. A TV station is challenging a court-imposed ban on airing audio it obtained from the court of a sentencing hearing, hoping the case makes precedent.
Crowdfunding websites such as gofundme.com and others are rife with fundraising campaigns for various legal matters, from neighbors fighting to stop approval of a “factory” hog farm in northern Indiana to a federal case in which the NAACP and others seek to expand early voting in Marion County. For lawyers, the key to making rain is relationships. A pilot project from Indiana Legal Services Inc. offers on-the-spot help to small claims defendants.