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Starting an IP practice
March 28, 2012
Michael HoskinsPatent attorneys face unique concerns in creating firms.
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January 4, 2012
Michael HoskinsLaw firms and courts in Indianapolis work to ensure smooth operations during Super Bowl week.
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September 23, 2011
Jenny MontgomeryThe Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of an attorney who failed
to monitor an estate checking account while serving as the estate’s counsel.
MoreFoundation in memory of attorney hosting golf fundraiser
August 17, 2011
IL StaffChrist is my Big C, a charitable foundation started by attorney Stephenie Jocham to help cancer patients, is seeking sponsorships,
foursomes, and silent auction items for an Oct. 17 golf tournament.
MoreLawyer pays his 'civic rent' through donation
August 17, 2011
Michael HoskinsAn Indianapolis attorney hopes he can help spread the word in the legal community about the need for potential blood and bone
marrow donors.
MoreIndianapolis attorney creates rescue mission for displaced children
July 20, 2011
Jenny MontgomeryTim Rowe enjoys practicing law but also wants to help others around the world.
MoreAnnual solo and small firms conference reaches out to law students
June 22, 2011
Jenny MontgomeryThis year, nearly 30 students from Indiana law schools attended the Indiana State Bar Association's 10th Solo & Small Firm
Conference.
MoreISBA president opens new firm
June 8, 2011
Jenny MontgomeryAfter nearly 10 years working for a nationally known law firm in Terre Haute, Jeffry Lind, president of the Indiana State
Bar Association, has opened his own practice.
MoreISBA conference registration deadline extended
May 20, 2011
IL StaffThe Indiana State Bar Association has extended the early bird registration deadline for its Solo & Small Firm Conference
to May 23.
MoreAG's food drive raises more than 140,000 pounds of food
May 5, 2011
IL StaffIndiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s March Against Hunger challenge among law firms has raised the equivalent of
nearly 144,000 pounds of food for needy Hoosiers.
MoreAttorneys discuss pros and cons of practicing in 2 states
April 13, 2011
Rebecca Berfanger, Jenny MontgomeryAttorneys in Indiana know that they must meet certain ongoing requirements to maintain their law licenses: CLE hours, and
staying abreast of procedural changes. Why, then, would anyone want to be licensed in two states?
MoreAttorney General’s food drive competition begins March 14
March 3, 2011
IL StaffThe third annual March Against Hunger food drive challenge among law firms and lawyers around the state kicks off March 14.
The Indiana Attorney General’s Office is teaming up again with the Indiana State Bar Association and Feeding Indiana’s
Hungry to encourage the legal community help needy Hoosiers.
MoreLawyer practiced realty, construction law
February 2, 2011
Michael HoskinsThe Indiana legal community has lost a former prosecutor and private attorney who, during his five decades of practice, established
himself as a state and national expert in realty and construction law.
MoreGreenwood attorney Joe Van Valer dies
January 19, 2011
Michael HoskinsThe Indiana legal community has lost a former prosecutor and private attorney who, during his five decades of practice, established
himself as a state and national expert in realty and development law.
MoreSuddenly solo
January 19, 2011
Rebecca BerfangerAt the 2010 Indiana State Bar Association Solo and Small Firm Conference in June, then-ISBA president Roderick Morgan welcomed
those in attendance, particularly those who found themselves to be “suddenly solo.” While he may not be the first
to use the phrase, a number of attorneys have found themselves either making that decision or having it made for them in the
last couple years.
MoreIndianapolis attorney 'trailblazer' for civil rights
December 27, 2010
Jennifer NelsonThe Indianapolis lawyer who worked on several notable cases in Indianapolis history, including a lawsuit which led to the
desegregation of Indianapolis Public Schools, died Sunday.
MorePlanning ahead for retirement
December 22, 2010
Rebecca BerfangerFor attorneys who may be making a New Year’s resolution to consider retirement in 2011, 2012, or even 2013, it’s
never too early to start planning.
MoreIn case of dishonest lawyers
November 24, 2010
Michael HoskinsThe nearly 50-year-old Indiana State Bar Association Clients’ Financial Assistance Fund has seen an unprecedented number
of claims against a single attorney.
MoreNew advertising rule on law firm monikers sparks concern
November 10, 2010
Michael HoskinsNew attorney advertising rules adopted recently by the Indiana Supreme Court have some lawyers throughout the state worried
that they’re being forced to change their law firm names from what’s historically been allowed.
MoreLawyer sentenced on child porn case
November 10, 2010
Michael HoskinsAnderson attorney Samuel Hasler, who pled guilty to a pair of child pornography charges, has received a 151-month sentence,
meaning he’ll spend more than 12 years behind bars and then face a lifetime of supervised release.
MoreRewriting the rules on attorney advertising
October 27, 2010
Michael HoskinsIf you practice law in Indiana, new rules are at your doorstep for how to go about attorney advertising in this state.
MoreLongtime northern Indiana attorney dies
October 18, 2010
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filings that a journey on the open road with nothing but a motorcycle and maybe a few friends is the perfect way to spend
the weekend.
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Michael HoskinsThe man accused of attacking a lawyer-legislator last year because of a 23-year-old legal dispute is on trial in Hamilton
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G. Michael Witte letter states he's suspended for three years. The case that got him suspended is identical to my estate case, including havin the Late Judge Deiter recuse himself because Newman had a conflict of interest with the judge. His Modus Operandi is nearly identical.
SIGNED BY G. MICHAEL WITTE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY INDIANA SUPREME COURT DISCIPLINARY COMMISSION DATED MAY 17, 2012.
Your 6th complaint against Lawrence T. Newman filed on 4/12/2012. On 1/31/12, the Indiana Supreme Court entered an order suspending Lawrence T. Newman’s law license for a period of three years. More important, even after three years, Lawrence Todd Newman will not get his license back unless and until he goes through a separate proceeding to prove that he is fit to practice law. This is not an easy process, and the burden is upon Lawrence T. Newman to prove by clear and convincing evidence that he is fit to return to practice.
Because of the length of Lawrence T. Newman’s license suspension and the fact he may never succeed in getting his law license reinstated, we are not opening an investigation file at this time.
Should Lawrence T. Newman seek reinstatement in the future, we will open your file and ask Lawrence T. Newman to address your grievance as part of his burden of proving fitness. We have attempted to notify Lawrence T. Newman that this will be required of him.
It may disappoint you to hear that we will be doing nothing on your grievance at this time. However, the most our office can ever accomplish is to take away a lawyer’s license to practice law. We have already done that, albeit as a result of misconduct in cases other than your own. It makes better sense for our office to focus its limited resources on cases where the lawyers are still actively practicing law.
Is there any justice in the Marion County Superior Court Civil Division? I am the unfortunate victim of a retaliatory lawsuit brought by Lawrence Todd Newman, the attorney from an estate case on which I worked as a unsupervised personal representative in 2006. The contract agreement for that case stated that the estate would be responsible for all attorney fees, but Newman refused to close the nearly insolvent estate when my duties were complete and his fees were paid. Instead, he tried to extort additional attorney fees from me by keeping the case open to address a wrongful death claim, despite the estate’s heir’s lack of interest in pursuing it and an expert doctor’s opinion that it would not be worth doing so. He also knowingly deceived me into believing that a “closing statement” was needed to close the estate, even though this requirement had actually been waived by the estate’s heir. The heir’s attorney filed a motion to have Newman removed from the case. After the court closed the probate case with prejudice (barred from further litigation) Newman illegally re-opened the case in another courtroom.
As a result of complaints filed against him for these and similar actions, Newman has been suspended from practicing law for 18 months by the Indiana Disciplinary Commission. In retaliation, he has filed suit against me demanding additional attorney fees for the 2006 estate case, despite the fact that I made no agreement stating that I would pay any fees from my own assets on behalf of the estate. This lawsuit violates the rules of ethics, due process of law, and equal protection of law. Newman has been allowed to file ridiculous pleadings at an alarming rate and has been supported by a biased court system. Judge Carroll refuses to recuse himself from the case despite the fact that, by his own admission, he intends to grant Newman sanctions regardless of the evidence. When my former counsel discovered that the previous judge on the case, Judge Sosin, was a long-time close friend of Newman’s family, Judge Carroll commented for the record during a hearing that Judge Sosin in so many words “he finds the door “was weak for recusing himself from the case as a result of this obvious conflict of interest.
This case is a public policy issue. Statutes put in place to protect unsupervised personal representatives in probate matters are being ignored. This case will affect thousands of individuals involved in probating and the personal representation of estates. Justice cannot possibly be served as long as a biased judge is allowed to defend a “vexatious litigant,” as Newman has been described by Judge Logan in Bradenton, Florida court. If there is any justice in the Marion County Superior Court Civil Division, this case against me will be dismissed with prejudice.
Every affront to decency and every style adopted by criminals is not per se a constituttional violation. Only fools believe or espouse that.
This was an unnecessary change in law, a needless fiddling with a tax that impacted very very few hoosiers, but one that erodes a tax base benefitting very many hoosiers. Just because some people wanted to chalk up a "tax cut" on their legislative brag-list, and didnt give a fig about replacing the revenue any other way. Really stupid. I am a republican my whole life and this just shames me like hell. I have to use a fake name over this because I know my fellow republicans are all brain washed over tax cutting too.