Indiana Lawyer

The Taft Stettinius & Hollister merger with a big Minneapolis firm is the latest and largest in a flurry of deals involving Hoosier law firms. A Clark Circuit judge will serve no jail time and receive no probation for his misdemeanor plea in a confrontation in which he and a colleague were shot, but the Commission on Judicial Qualifications continues to investigate the shooting. And a harassment guilty plea in a case involving a Facebook post was affirmed by the Court of Appeals, but a dissenting judge wrote that the harassment statute itself should be thrown out.