This year, both the Indianapolis Bar Foundation and the IndyBar will embark on a capital campaign to raise $500,000 for a new home. While the campaign will honor the Foundation’s 50-year history, its aim is to pay for new space to better serve our members’ needs.
If you are even a little bit curious about a specific bill or the legislative process, please join us for the Lawyer-Legislator Luncheon. In my biased opinion, it is the best legislative CLE around!
Who’s the new Indianapolis Bar Foundation president? We sat down with Rebecca Geyer to give you an exclusive peek inside the mind of the IBF’s newest leader! Check it out.
Greetings and welcome to the 140th year of the Indianapolis Bar Association. For 140 years, the IndyBar has served its members, promoted justice and enhanced the legal profession. It has survived the Depression, two World Wars, Ron Artest’s attempt to destroy the Pacers and that time some corporate hacks tried to change the taste of […]
The Lake County Bar Association and the Evansville Bar Association are both starting the 2018 by moving into new offices. The new spaces are bigger, allowing for expanded programming and offering more room for attorneys to work or just relax between appointments.
After more than 25 years leading the Indiana State Bar Association, Tom Pyrz left the office for the last time Jan. 5.
“All these people died, and it happened under my watch,” claims Joe Rannazzisi, former Deputy Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Rannazzisi ran the DEA’s Office of Diversion Control, which is the division that regulates, investigates and prosecutes the pharmaceutical industry, and he’s set to present the opening plenary session for the 2018 Bench Bar Conference in Louisville June 14 – 16.
It’s a new year and people everywhere are making resolutions. Whether you’re making your first resolution, maintaining one from last year, or trying an old resolution again, there are several steps to set yourself on the path to success.
Intentionality in seeking career opportunities helps propel progress. The legal profession is no exception. We strive to have a legal workforce that is representative of the clients and communities that we serve. In this current climate, now more than ever, we need lawyers to be leaders in the courtroom, the legislature, in business and family matters and in our community to help eradicate unfair social stratification barriers.
How can you keep up with pending legislation that’s important to you and your practice? The IndyBar Legislative Committee, chaired this year by Lawren Mills of Ice Miller LLP, will provide weekly Bill Watch reports throughout the session, which highlight progress and recent actions taken on bills being monitored by the association.
The lack of racial and ethnic diversity continues to frustrate law schools and the entire legal profession. Within Indiana, the students at the four law schools remain primarily white and male, according to the American Bar Association’s 2017 Standard 509 reports.
Who’s the new IndyBar president? We sat down with James Bell of Paganelli Law Group to give you an exclusive peek inside the mind of the IndyBar’s newest front man! Check it out below and keep up with him on Twitter at @indybarpres. We promise you’ll be entertained!
At the November annual meeting of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, the following officers and directors were elected. They assumed office January 1, 2018.
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law alumna and former dean and professor Susanah M. Mead has died, the school announced Thursday.
Three of Indiana’s four law schools have shrunk in recent years but the gender and racial profiles have remained fairly steady since 2015, according to the recently released in the Fall 2017 Standard 509 Reports from the American Bar Association.
The ancient novel “The Book of the City of Ladies” serves as a reminder that in this and other unexpected places one can learn (or relearn) tactics to hone our craft. More broadly, it is reminder that today — as in fifteenth century France — there remains a need for effective advocates.
An Elkhart lawyer who teaches schoolchildren the value of voting is among six attorneys recognized by the Indiana Bar Foundation for their volunteer efforts.
Although nationally the number of 1L students starting law school in the 2017 fall semester increased, the 2017 first-year class enrolled Indiana’s four law schools declined by nearly 100 students compared to the class that began in 2016.
Meet the Indianapolis Bar Association Board of Directors for 2018.
Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana named its 2018 officers and directors at its 24th Annual Conference and Annual Meeting last month. The officers and directors will take office January 1, 2018.