IndyBar: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with IndyBar’s Hispanic Lawyers Division
Sept. 15 is a meaningful date for the Hispanic Lawyers Division.
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Drowning in data: Attorneys grappling with increase in digital evidence
If you’re wanting to find out how prosecutor’s offices and law enforcement are doing in handling a growing amount of digital evidence, criminal defense attorney John Tompkins figures you could get 92 different answers — one for each of Indiana’s counties.
IndyBar: A Night On The Town: The Indybar Foundation’s 2023 Gala
The IndyBar Foundation’s 2023 Gala, “A Night on the Town,” will have something for everyone.
JLAP: What if our memory (no longer) serves?
Words and language are the tools of the lawyer’s trade. What if we notice we become more forgetful and search longer for the right word or case name than in the past?
Boyce and Butler: Special education and the least restrictive environment
One of the core principles of special education law under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, is to provide free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, or LRE. But what does LRE mean?
IndyBar: Practice Toolkit: Are Notifications Blowing Up Your Concentration?
Look, the fact of the matter is that software and hardware for work is designed to be “in your face” at all times.
DTCI: DRI Annual Meeting: San Antonio style
Everything is bigger in Texas, including this year’s DRI Annual Meeting!
Ballot access issues surviving court challenges ahead of 2024 elections: Minor parties, absentee voting at issue
Election-related lawsuits have challenged Indiana laws as they relate to ballot access for both candidates and voters. Decisions in those cases handed down in recent months have been mostly favorable to existing Indiana law.
IndyBar: Judicial Spotlight: Hon. Alicia A. Gooden
A judicial spotlight featuring Marion Superior Judge Alicia Gooden.
IndyBar: Legal Forms For Better Productivity
IndyBar has hundreds of member services. One of the most underutilized is its document library of sample forms.
Is paying bail ‘expressive’? Bail Project’s legal fight continues amid uncertain future
After running into another roadblock on its quest to overturn a state law that limits its operations in Indiana, The Bail Project isn’t committing one way or the other on whether it will continue working in the state.
Van Winkle: Mediation process issues to watch
Attorneys participating in mediations in Indiana may want to follow the appellate course of two recent federal court orders.
ABA resolution strenghtens requirement for attorney vigilance: Resolution passes after spirited debate by delegates
A resolution passed by the American Bar Association House of Delegates this month aims to ensure attorneys are vigilant about their clients and don’t unknowingly get caught up in a client’s criminal or fraudulent activities.
Indiana Court Decisions: Aug. 10-23, 2023
Read Indiana appellate court decisions from the most recent reporting period.
Books, pronouns and trans athletes: What contentious education policy is coming next?
If the last few legislative sessions are any indication of what could be on the horizon for the Indiana General Assembly in 2024, one seemingly safe bet is that the state’s lawmakers will again take up controversial education policy.
Web Exclusive: Use of wiretap laws changing as civil claims seemingly become more common
Wiretapping is seeing an increase, both in criminal case authorizations and, perhaps unexpectedly, as a claim in civil proceedings.
Maley: Changes to Indiana Southern District local rules
Effective July 1, the Southern District of Indiana made minor amendments to Local Rules 5-11 (sealed filings); Local Rule 6-1 (extensions of time); Local Rule 37-1 (discovery disputes); Local Rule 81-1 (removal); and Local Rule 83-5 (admission).
IndyBar: In The Trenches: Parenting Coordinators
Those of us “in the trenches” of family law know the value (er, need!) of a good, seasoned parenting coordinator on our highest conflict cases.
Librarians concerned new law could have ‘chilling effect’: HEA 1447 creates process for book challenges, prohibits ‘obscene’ materials
A new Indiana law set to take effect in 2024 has some public school librarians feeling uneasy, as the state has put in place procedures for challenging books and will require school libraries to prepare a publicly available catalog of materials.
Angola attorney resigns following multiple disciplinary actions
An Angola attorney who has been the subject of multiple disciplinary actions has resigned from the Indiana bar.