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LEADERSHIP IN LAW 2021: Lacy Johnson

Lacy Johnson Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 1981 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Mine was not a typical path. At the age of 7, I witnessed my father being detained by the police following an incident in our neighborhood. We found ourselves in […]

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LEADERSHIP IN LAW 2021: Chuck Schmal

Chuck Schmal Woodard Emhardt Henry Reeves & Wagner LLP George Mason University School of Law, 1999 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Growing up, I never thought I would be an attorney. Movies and books concerning the law did not interest me. Even a field trip to Center City Philadelphia to watch […]

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LEADERSHIP IN LAW 2021: Judge David Avery

Judge David Avery Allen Superior Court Valparaiso University School of Law, 1976 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? A combination of having graduated with a B.S. in economics (what could I do with that in the recession in the early-to-mid-1970s?) and having grown up in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s when […]

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LEADERSHIP IN LAW 2021: Rachel Woloshin

Rachel Woloshin Church Church Hittle & Antrim Duquesne University School of Law, 2012 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I have always had a passion for helping people in their time of need. The legal profession puts you in a unique position to help others with legal issues and impact a life […]

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LEADERSHIP IN LAW 2021: Kathleen Anderson

Kathleen Anderson Barnes & Thornburg LLP Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 1992 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I remember wanting to be a teacher in about the first grade, but I otherwise can’t remember wanting to be anything but a lawyer. Maybe I watched too much “L.A. Law” in middle […]

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LEADERSHIP IN LAW 2021: Michael Morris

Michael Morris Woodard Emhardt Henry Reeves & Wagner LLP Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 2011 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Becoming a patent attorney was the perfect marriage between my interests in engineering, science and the law. I had long-planned on becoming an engineer, and while pursuing that path my […]

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Leadership in Law nominations open with new honors added

Nominations for Indiana Lawyer’s Leadership in Law Awards are now open as the annual recognition program prepares for its biggest honors yet. In addition to the traditional 15 Distinguished Barrister and 15 Up and Coming Lawyer Awards, Leadership in Law is adding two new categories of honorees for 2021.

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