Dunn: Mitigating risk today requires ongoing risk governance
Last year presented organizations with a variety of new issues coupled with uncertainty. The year taught hard lessons and reinforced the critical need to adapt.
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Schumann: Residential transfer reporting rule takes effect March 1
On Aug. 29, 2024, FinCEN published the rule with the start date for real estate transactions beginning March 1.
Hammond and Shublak: Ensuring our decisions bend toward the common good
While coastal cities may dismiss us as flyover, we continue to produce the residents, workers, soldiers, athletes and executives who make the world run.
Dreyer: Violence against judges leads to broad disorder
We Americans do not know what we really think of our judges. … Are they heroes or villains? Hiller B. Zobel, “Why We Hate To Love Judges” In 1970, Judge Harold Haley was led from his California courtroom with a shotgun wired around his neck. He was killed during the escape attempt of a defendant […]
Jan. 30, 2026
Indiana Court of Appeals
Lloyd N. Jelks v. State of Indiana
No. 25A-CR-1971
Criminal. Appeal from the Marion Superior Court, Judge Amy M. Jones. Affirms Jelks’s conviction for refusal to provide identification information, a Class C misdemeanor. Holds the evidence was sufficient to prove Jelks knowingly or intentionally refused to identify himself to a law enforcement officer who had stopped him for an infraction, as required by Indiana Code § 34-28-5-3.5. Concludes the evidence showed Officer Reneski lawfully stopped Jelks for operating a vehicle with a fictitious license plate, repeatedly requested Jelks’s identification, and explained the consequences of refusal, yet Jelks persisted in refusing to provide his name, date of birth, address, or state identification despite possessing a valid Indiana identification card in his wallet. Further holds Jelks’s asserted belief that he was exercising constitutional rights was irrelevant to whether he knowingly or intentionally refused to identify himself under the statute. Accordingly, affirms the judgment and suspended sentence. Appellant’s attorneys: Talisha R. Griffin; Timothy J. Burns. Appellee’s attorneys: Office of the Indiana Attorney General.
Norris: Have you hugged your lobbyist today? They’re the experts.
With so many important issues being considered in such a condensed time frame, isn’t it comforting to know that a trained governmental affairs professional is watching your back?
Graham: The kind of goodwill no marketing budget can buy
Can your escrow account actually enhance your goodwill? Absolutely. There’s hidden value in how we handle our clients’ funds.
Wilson: Microsoft tips: Solving Word’s automatic numbering issues
One of the most frustrating parts of Microsoft Word is its automatic behavior control, or ABC, feature as it relates to numbering.
Mizzell: From relief to reckoning—bankruptcy trends to watch in 2026
Although it is probably surprising to most, the pandemic and the related inflation did not give rise to a huge explosion in bankruptcy filings.
Melissa Hamer: A year loaded with environmental regulatory changes
Between Supreme Court rewrites of familiar statutes, extended methane deadlines, and Indiana’s new stormwater and water-pipeline rules, our regulated community spent 2025 chasing certainty.
Blake Hartz: A look at the year when generative AI became ‘legal’
The problem many AI companies have encountered is that their enormous training datasets contain enormous amounts of copyrighted content.
Ashley Hart: Handling grief during the holidays
Grief is a Long Play LP all on its own. It’s an intense collection of our losses, amplified by the expectations of the season. Many times, it is not the Hallmark movie soundtrack that we had in mind.
Dustin Houchin: Providing a furlough from jail is tradition, not state law
Much of what goes on in courtrooms is based on tradition and folklore rather than the text of the law. Take the furlough as an example.
Kayla Goodfellow: December doesn’t provide the recipe for having it all
There are times during the year when I can maintain the pleasant illusion of control. December offers no such mercy.
Deanna Marquez: Getting to the bottom of the metadata mayhem
Sometimes metadata is intentionally removed to protect exposure of sensitive details including names, comments, and revision history.
Brooke Burtnett and Kate Collins: Hoosier business owners need advocates who keep up
The ability to see around the corner, before legislation is filed and regulations finalized, has become a powerful competitive advantage.
David Dreyer: Is an avalanche of injunction requests on the way?
My traditional joy about injunctive relief may be facing a very practical challenge.
Katie S. Riles: What businesses need to know about new fraud prevention law
While the law’s stated purpose is to prevent fraudulent activity in Indiana, its most practical effects will be felt in how businesses list their addresses, use commercial mail services and handle required filing with the Indiana Secretary of State’s office.
Tony Paganelli: Here’s a practitioner’s checklist for litigating injunctions
Too many lawyers try to win their case at the temporary restraining order stage and lose credibility when they can’t explain why money damages won’t suffice later.
Madden & Clouse: Wicked problems and the people who work to solve them
Wicked problems require innovative leaders and a patchwork of approaches; cue, Indiana Justice Project and its Executive Director, Adam Mueller.