Marion attorney suspended after cocaine conviction
A Marion attorney who pleaded guilty to a felony drug offense earlier this year is now under an interim suspension from the practice of law.
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IU McKinney’s Lawrence Jegen leaves legacy of teaching
Lawrence Jegen III, longtime professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, built a national reputation as one of the foremost experts in tax law, offering his insight to lawyers, accountants, elected officials and the Internal Revenue Service, but he spent much of his professional life in the place he most loved — the classroom. Jegen, 83, died at his Indianapolis home May 17 after an illness.
Marion County small claims courts go on record
On July 1, the small claims courts in Indiana’s most populous county are going to become courts of record. Like the small claims courts in the state’s 91 other counties, Marion County’s proceedings will be recorded and any appeals will go straight to the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Amid uncertain future, Valpo Class of 2018 told to be ‘be noble in your pursuits’
With Valparaiso University Law School facing an uncertain future, law professor Jeremy Telman used his remarks during the May 20 graduation ceremony to underscore the institution’s 138-year impact on the legal profession, as well as to hint at the void that would be created if the law school ceases to exist.
Service scheduled for IU McKinney’s Jegen
A celebration of life service for Lawrence Jegen III, professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, will begin at 3 p.m. June 3 in the north atrium of the Indiana Statehouse. Jegen died May 17 at 83 years old.
IU McKinney vice dean heads for Florida International Law
Antony Page, vice dean at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, will be resigning his position and leaving July 30, 2018, when he will become the dean of the Florida International University College of Law.
State secret: DOC presses lethal injection confidentiality
A law slipped into the 2017 budget bill during the General Assembly’s final hours declared that information about drugs that the state would use to execute someone was confidential. The last-minute law was written into the bill even though a judge had ruled months earlier that the very same information was a matter of public record and had ordered the Department of Correction to provide it.
Retiring Barnes reflects on time as prosecutor, judge as 3 COA finalists selected
Court of Appeals Judge Michael Barnes’ career has taken him down multiple paths — including 27 years with the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office, 1½ years with Barnes & Thornburg and 18 years on the bench — and each experience exposed him to new facets of the law.
Griffith woman charged after daughter shot at Illinois party
A Griffith woman has been charged after police say she accidentally shot her 5-year-old daughter during a party at a suburban Chicago home.
Gary woman sentenced for killing a mom, claiming her baby
A Gary woman will spend up to 30 years in prison for killing a mother and trying to pass off the woman’s 3-month-old baby as her own. Geraldine R. Jones was sentenced May 25 in Anderson.
Gary man receives life term in 7 women’s deaths
A former Marine who admitted to killing seven women in a plea deal with Indiana prosecutors has been sentenced to seven life sentences.
Teacher who stopped Noblesville attack says he had to save students
The Noblesville teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student inside his classroom said Monday that his swift decisions “were the only acceptable actions” to save his seventh-grade students. Jason Seaman was shot three times during a shooting May 25 at Noblesville West Middle School.
Pappas: Why I don’t sign letters “Very truly yours”
Bill Hutchens taught me this lesson, along with the value of humor — in life and law. We recently lost Bill after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease (a condition with which, coincidentally, my father, also a lawyer, was afflicted).
Rosio: What you need to know about valuing closely held businesses
The valuation of closely held companies is a large and growing practice. However, most people are not aware of this valuation activity because the companies being valued are closely held and, thus, private in nature. Additionally, since closely held entities are typically smaller than publicly traded entities, fewer investors are affected by the results of such valuations.
Boldt: Trust, but clarify, when electing a client’s trustee and duties
Do your clients’ estate plans typically include a trust? If so, have some of those clients nominated an individual person to serve as trustee? If you answered “yes” to those questions, ask yourself if you could do the same to this one: Do those clients, or better yet those individual trustees, understand the fundamental duties and the breadth of the obligations they have agreed to undertake?
New law allows for electronic signing of wills, trusts, powers of attorney
Though the law has a reputation for being resistant to change, new legislation that will take effect this summer is designed to give estate planning attorneys the opportunity to embrace technology when advising clients about probate documents while allowing more traditional lawyers to conduct business as usual.
Opinions May 25, 2018
The following opinions were posted after IL deadline Thursday:
Indiana Supreme Court
In the Matter of Fronse W. Smith, Jr.
71S00-1711-DI-707
Disciplinary. Disbars Fronse W. Smith, Jr. Finds Smith engaged in attorney misconduct by committing the crime of intimidation after he threatened to kill his estranged wife with an ax.
Riverboat casino, county get partial win in tax court
The Indiana Tax Court dealt a win and a loss to a county and a casino that were arguing over how much a gambling resort in southern Indiana was worth during the Great Recession.
JNC files report on COA finalists to Holcomb
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb now has 60 days to select Indiana’s next Court of Appeals judge after the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission officially submitted the names of its three finalists on Friday.
COA upholds 6-year stalking sentence for ex’s break-in, threat
A Ripley County man who broke into his ex-wife’s home by climbing on the roof and cutting through the drywall with razor blades has lost his appeal of his six-year sentence for convictions of intimidation and invasion of privacy, with the Indiana Court of Appeals rejecting his argument that the sentence is inappropriate.