While the Marion County Bar Association was originally founded in the 1920s as an answer to other bar associations that didn't allow minority members to join, the organization remains relevant as a support system to its members and a voice for minority attorneys in central Indiana.
When I travel, all intentions of eating healthy or not eating a lot go right out the window. When I travel with someone who has the same affinity for food, it is even worse. When I travel with my partner Jim Voyles, I make sure I wear pants with extra room because it is going to be a pig-fest all day long as it was on our recent trip to Michigan City.
What could have been a tragic end to a law library in central Indiana at the end of 2009 will be a new beginning in 2010.
Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed suit Dec. 18 in Knox Circuit Court against non-attorney Bicknell City Judge David Andrew
Moreland, who’s charged with five counts of Class D felony theft that was discovered during an audit by the Indiana State
Board of Accounts in August. The former judge and his wife, Cindy, who served as city court clerk, are accused of stealing
nearly $21,000 since he became city judge Jan. 1, 2008. The Indiana Supreme Court suspended Judge Moreland in…
The Office of the Public Defender of Indiana is now an American Bar Association Law Office Climate Challenge Partner.
Retired Huntington Circuit Judge Mark A. McIntosh died Feb. 20 in Fort Wayne. Judge McIntosh, 76, served on the Huntington
Circuit Court for 22 years before retiring in 2007. Before he became a judge, he worked in private practice. Prior to attending
law school, he taught social studies and coached junior varsity basketball at Kendallville High School after he graduated
from Michigan State University. He graduated from Indiana University School of Law in 1962 and was admitted to the bar…
Vetoed legislation that would scrap St. Joseph County's merit selection for judicial elections and also add a new three-judge panel to the Indiana Court of Appeals is back in play.
The Indianapolis Bar Association is seeking nominations to fill an immediate vacancy on its board of directors.
Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan Jr. will be honored with an American Bar Association Section of Litigation's
2010 Diversity Leadership Award next month. The award honors those who have demonstrated a commitment to promoting diversity
in the legal profession.
Attorneys who'd like to be admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court have until Feb. 19 to submit their applications to the Indiana State Bar Association.
In the final days of the Indiana General Assembly session, as lawmakers pushed to finish and put final touches on the end-of-term business, a 2009 measure that divided the Hoosier legal community came back into play.
The Indiana State Bar Association has won an unauthorized practice of law action against an estate planning services company, but wasn't able to completely sway the state's highest court that all "costs and expenses" should be completely granted for the prosecution of the case.
During a visit to South Bend today, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor pushed a message that merit selection is the best way to ensure an independent judiciary, though her words come at a time when state lawmakers are close to scrapping that very system in the county she visited.
The Indiana State Bar Association wants the state’s highest court to define the term “costs and expenses” as it’s never done before, and in doing so order a company being prosecuted for the Unauthorized Practice of Law to have to pay those fees and disgorge any profits it shouldn’t have made in the first place.Hearing arguments today in State of Indiana, Ex. Rel. Indiana State Bar Association v. United Financial Systems Corp., No. 84S00-0810-MS-551, justices considered an issue of first…
Two temporary judges have been selected by the Indiana Supreme Court to fill vacancies in Wayne and Madison counties.
The House Judiciary Committee met this morning to consider five bills that included assessing a $10 fee for Lake County court filings, which would be used to fund a consolidated judicial center.
A legislative conference committee is debating what changes might be possible for a bill aimed at scrapping merit selection for St. Joseph Superior judges.
The Indiana Supreme Court has received an award from the American Bar Association for its Law Day program this year that focused on Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer.
The Indianapolis Bar Association is accepting nominations for its 2009 Professionalism Award given to attorneys and the Silver Gavel Award for judges.
he Indiana State Bar Association is offering a free job-search seminar to help unemployed members find legal jobs.