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Marion Superior Court Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 2003 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Athletically, I looked up to my older brothers, but career wise, I wanted to follow in the footsteps of my cousin. As it turns out, my career has mirrored a lot of hers. She’s a career […]
Indianapolis Legal Aid Society Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 1993 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? When I was in my senior year of college, one of my housemates insisted on betting $50 that he would score better on the LSAT than I would. I took the bet, and he lost. […]
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 2014 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Going to law school and becoming a lawyer was recommended for me by different important people in my life over and over again. Those who knew me best suggested I would be a […]
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 2015 If you hadn’t pursued a legal career, what would you be doing? Having played college baseball, I have always loved the sport—even after my playing days were over. Had I not pursued a legal career, I would have pursued working in […]
The Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 1989 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? While my interest in the legal profession was present as early as middle school, my decision to enter it occurred during my undergraduate education. My major was public administration, so I […]
Ice Miller LLP Valparaiso University School of Law, 2013 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I worked professionally immediately after undergrad rather than going directly to law school. After working for a few years, I wanted to pursue a career in sports law. I decided to go to law school to give […]
Amundsen Davis LLC Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 1992 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I had the grand idea that by being a lawyer I could change the world. While I realized fairly early in my career that I would need more of a focus than that, I have pursued […]
Krieg DeVault LLP Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 2019 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I’ve always been fascinated by the intersection of business and government, an interest that was sparked by an influential teacher I had in high school. Through an internship with the Indiana House of Representatives, I got […]
Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 2013 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? As a kid, I thought lawyers had superpowers. Although I couldn’t articulate it then, I viewed lawyers as the ones who understood and could navigate the written and enforceable rules of society. People […]
Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP Lewis and Clark Law School, 2019 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I wanted to help others pursue justice. In the beginning of my career, I wanted to help children and families. I followed this interest for the first few years of my practice while in Portland, Oregon, […]
Hensley Legal Group PC University of Iowa College of Law, 2016 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? The history of law has always fascinated me. As a Catholic school kid, class lessons were intertwined with parables and the prevailing legal principles of their times. Central to these parables was a stark sense […]
American Senior Communities Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 2016 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I truly wanted to help people. I grew up in the inner city and experienced injustices at my high school all the time. I even personally experienced injustice as a youth in sixth grade. I knew […]
In letters to members of Congress on Wednesday, Justice Samuel Alito said his wife was responsible for flying an upside-down flag over his home in 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his New Jersey beach house last year. Neither incident merits his recusal, he wrote.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted the transfer of four cases last week that separately involve an adult theater, a pedestrian accident, a development dispute and the expungement of a police officer’s arrest.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Aaron Dashawn Brackenridge v. State of Indiana
23A-CR-2496
Criminal. Reverses the Boone Superior Court’s denial of Aaron Brackenridge’s motion to dismiss the charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, a Level 4 felony. Finds the felony on which the charge was based had been converted to a misdemeanor. Also finds that at the time the state charged Brackenridge with being a serious violent felon in unlawful possession of a firearm, Brackenridge was not a felon because his Class D felony conviction had been vacated and replaced with a Class A misdemeanor conviction pursuant to the Alternative Misdemeanor Sentencing statute.
For journalists, it raises a question: Should a public official’s family be held to the same standards as that official themselves?
Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home, the Washington Post acknowledged it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it. The Post’s story was both an extraordinary example […]
The man sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for bludgeoning Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer inside their San Francisco home returned to a courtroom Wednesday to face state charges, including attempted murder.
The jury of seven men and five women was sent to a private room just before 11:30 a.m. to begin weighing a verdict in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.
The new records made available by Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office show only a few expenses directly related to his disciplinary case. Even so, the documents indicate more than $100,000 was spent in the weeks surrounding Dr. Caitlin Bernard’s case before the Indiana Medical Licensing Board.
