Members of the city’s public safety team recently addressed a gathering of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s
Bar Leader Series class to discuss their respective roles and shed light on the challenges they are confronting.
More than one-quarter of lawyers interviewed recently said they plan to increase staff levels in the second quarter of 2010,
while virtually none anticipated declines, according to The Robert Half Legal Hiring Index.
In 1983 Michael Jackson’s Thriller was the album of the year. Flashdance was in the movie theaters, and Ronald Reagan
was in the White House. It’s also the year that Mary E. Myers of Kroger Gardis & Regas began her paralegal career.
As the United States Senate began debate on the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Act, the Indianapolis
Bar Association issued a letter to oppose provisions within the CFPA which would grant the proposed Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection broad new powers to regulate lawyers.
Mentoring and assisting lawyers of all ages and experiences are among the goals of the 2010 IBA Standing Committee on Professionalism,
according to the 2010 committee chairs, Hon. William T. Lawrence, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, and Kathleen
I. Hart, Bose McKinney & Evans LLP. T
The Indiana General Assembly grappled with some hefty family law issues during the recent legislative session and the IBA was up to the challenge.
It's probably not surprising to those who know Steve Peters that he quoted Shakespeare while talking about his legal career. But many people might not know that Peters, a civil litigator with Harrison & Moberly LLP, was a self-professed math and English geek in high school and college.